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The Tragic Muse, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
The Tragic Muse Vol 2 - Classic Reprint Author:Henry James XXIII. IT was certainly singular, under the circumstances, that on sitting down in his studio, after Julia had left town, Nick Dormer'should not, as regards the effort to reproduce some beautiful form, have felt more chilled by the absence of a friend who was such an embodiment of beauty. She was away, and he longed for her, and yet without her ... more »the place was more filled with what he wanted to find in it. He turned into it with confused feelings, the most definite of which w~s a sense of release and recreation. It looked blighted and lonely and dusty, and his old studies, as he rummaged them out, struck him as even clumsier than the last time he had ventured to drop his eyes upon them. But amid this neglected litter, in the colorless and obstructed light of a high north windov which needed washing, he tasted more sharply the possibility of positive happiness: it appeared to him that, as he had said to Julia, he was more in possession of his soul. It was frivolity
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