..if I dont do something on the grand scale it is that my genius is altogether imitative and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur.
Henry James
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The Baroness found it amusing to go to tea she dressed as if for dinner. The teatable offered an anomalous and picturesque repast and on leaving it they all sat and talked in the large piazza or wandered about the garden in the starlight.
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He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures.
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