Henry James

Daisy Miller

  • Tine Raabyemaglehas quoted5 years ago
    rustled her skirts in the corkscrew staircases, flirted back with a pretty little cry and a shudder from the edge of the oubliettes, and turned a singularly well-shaped ear to everything that Winterbourne told her about the place.
  • Tine Raabyemaglehas quoted5 years ago
    She looked at him a moment and then burst into a little laugh. "I like to make you say those things!
  • Tine Raabyemaglehas quoted5 years ago
    He had been a little afraid that she would talk loud, laugh overmuch, and even, perhaps, desire to move about the boat a good deal. But he quite forgot his fears; he sat smiling, with his eyes upon her face, while, without moving from her place, she delivered herself of a great number of original reflections
  • Tine Raabyemaglehas quoted5 years ago
    pretty companion's distinguished air
  • Tine Raabyemaglehas quoted5 years ago
    aisy Miller was extremely animated, she was in charming spirits; but she was apparently not at all excited; she was not fluttered; she avoided neither his eyes nor those of anyone else; she blushed neither when she looked at him nor when she felt that people were looking at her.
  • Tine Raabyemaglehas quoted5 years ago
    even allowing for her habitual sense of freedom,
  • Tine Raabyemaglehas quoted5 years ago
    as he looked at her dress and, on the great staircase, her little rapid, confiding step, he felt as if there were something romantic going forward
  • Tine Raabyemaglehas quoted5 years ago
    pretty figure, dressed in the perfection of a soberly elegant traveling costume.
  • Tine Raabyemaglehas quoted5 years ago
    I hope you are disappointed, or disgusted, or something!"
  • Tine Raabyemaglehas quoted5 years ago
    "Oh, I hoped you would make a fuss!" said Daisy. "I don't care to go now."
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