The Sense of the Past - Classic Reprint Author:Henry James THEY occurred very much at the same hour and together, the two main things that-exclusive of the death of his mother, recent and deeply felt by him-had yet befallen Ralph Pendrel, who, at thirty, had known fewer turns of fortune than many men of his age. But as these matters were quite distinct I take them for clearness in their order. He had up... more » to this time perforce encountered life mainly in the form of loss and of sacrifice- inevitabilities these, however, such as scarce represented a chequered career. He had been left without his father in childhood; he had then seen two sisters die; he had in his twentieth year parted by the same law with his elder and only brother; and he had finally known the rupture of the strongest tie of all, an affection for which, as a living claim, he had had to give up much else. Among these latter things, none the less, he had not as yet had to reckon Mrs. Stent Coyne, and this even though the thought of such a peril was o
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CONTENTS; THE SENSE OF THE PAST I; NOTES FOR THE SENSE OF THE PAST 289
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