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The Lesson of the Master; The Marriages, the Pupil, Brooksmith, the Solution, Sir Edmund Orme
The Lesson of the Master The Marriages the Pupil Brooksmith the Solution Sir Edmund Orme Author:Henry James General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1892 Original Publisher: Macmillan and co. Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Anthologies Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Short Stories Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR ... more »reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: BROOKSMITH.1 We are scattered now, the friends of the late Mr. Oliver Offord; but whenever we chance to meet I think we are conscious of a certain esoteric respect for each other. " Yes, you too have been in Arcadia," we seem not too grumpily to allow. When I pass the house in Mansfield Street I remember that Arcadia was there. I don't know who has it now, and I don't want to know; its enough to be so sure that if I should ring the bell there would be no such luck for me as that Brooksmith should open the door. Mr. Offord, the most agreeable, the most lovable of bachelors, was a retired diplomatist, living on his pension, confined by his infirmities to his fireside and delighted to be found there any afternoon in the year by such visitors as Brooksmith allowed to come up. Brooksmith was his butler and his most intimate friend, to whom we all stood, or I should say sat, in the same relation in which the subject of the sovereign finds himself to the prime minister. By having been for years, in foreign lands, the most delightful Englishman any one had ever known, Mr. Offord had, in my opinion, rendered signal service to his country. But I suppose he had been too much liked -- liked even by those who didn't like it -- so that as people of that sort never gettitles or dotations for the horrid things they have not done, his principal reward was simply that we went to see him. 1 Copyrig...« less