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510 The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James (Part 2)

The History of Literature

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The Deer in the Temple of Vishnu

Gwendolyn or May was of the very type of the lean ladies one had met in the temples of chance. Her passion visibly preyed on her, and in her presence, I felt almost tepid. It was a desert in which she had lost herself, but too she had dug a wonderful hole in the sand,. A cavity out of which Corvik had still more remarkably pulled her. He doesn't say what it is. How could he in a telegram? He'll write it. But how does he know? No, it's the real thing. Oh, I'm sure that when you see it, you do know. Vera in sasupatuitade

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