Henry James Quote

Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.


The Bodley Head Henry James: The awkward age (ed. 1967)


Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly...

Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly...

Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly...

Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly...