The Altar of the Dead - Henry James - Books -  - 9798596641721 - January 18, 2021
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The Altar of the Dead

He had a mortal dislike, poor Stransom, to lean anniversaries, and loved them still less when they made a pretence of a figure. Celebrations and suppressions were equally painful to him, and but one of the former found a place in his life. He had kept each year in his own fashion the date of Mary Antrim's death. It would be more to the point perhaps to say that this occasion kept HIM: it kept him at least effectually from doing anything else. It took hold of him again and again with a hand of which time had softened but never loosened the touch. He waked to his feast of memory as consciously as he would have waked to his marriage-morn. Marriage had had of old but too little to say to the matter: for the girl who was to have been his bride there had been no bridal embrace.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 18, 2021
ISBN13 9798596641721
Pages 50
Dimensions 140 × 216 × 3 mm   ·   72 g
Language English  

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