by Henry James, The Altar of the Dead — Chapter V (1895)
“ If it had been with each a question of what the other was there for, the certitude had come in some fine way of its own. Any faith, after all, has the instinct of propagation, and it was as natural as it was beautiful that they should have taken pleasure on the spot in the imagination of a following. ”
by Henry James, The Altar of the Dead — Chapter V (1895)
“ He knew she couldn't: one's relation to what one had loved and hated had been a relation too distinct from the relations of others. But this didn't affect the fact that they were growing old together in their piety. ”
by Henry James, The Altar of the Dead — Chapter V (1895)
“ These things made their whole relation so impersonal that they hadn't the rules or reasons people found in ordinary friendships. They didn't care for the things it was supposed necessary to care for in the intercourse of the world. ”
