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

The History of Literature

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The Dangers of Meeting Verickers

"When I've run him to earth, he also said, then you know I shall knock at his door. Rather, I beg you to believe I'll have it from his own lips," she writes. "He shall crown me victor with the critical laurel." The novel's author left England for an indefinite absence when Verickers' health deteriorated.

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