The Jolly Corner

The Jolly Corner, by Henry James
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Title: The Jolly Corner
Author: Henry James Release Date: May 13, 2005 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) [eBook #1190]
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Transcribed from the 1918 Martin Secker edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
THE JOLLY CORNER by Henry James
CHAPTER I
“Every one asks me what I ‘think’ of everything,” said Spencer Brydon; “and I make answer as I can—begging or dodging the question, putting them off with any nonsense. It wouldn’t matter to any of them really,” he went on, “for, even were it possible to meet in that stand-and-deliver way so silly a demand on so big a subject, my ‘thoughts’ would still be almost altogether about something that concerns only myself.” He was talking to Miss Staverton, with whom for a couple of months now he had availed himself of every possible occasion to
talk; this disposition and this resource, this comfort and support, as the situation in fact presented itself, having promptly enough taken the first place in the considerable array of rather unattenuated surprises attending his so strangely belated return ...