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An International Episode |
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| Author
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Henry James
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| Category
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Audiobook
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| Language
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English
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| Published
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1878
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| Extract
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offered them a very long list. After dinner they went out and slowly walked about
the neighboring streets. The early dusk of waning summer was coming on, but the
heat was still very great. The pavements were hot even to the stout boot soles
of the British travelers, and the trees along the curbstone emitted strange exotic
odors. The young men wandered through the adjoining square--that queer place without
palings, and with marble walks arranged in black and white lozenges. There were
a great many benches, crowded with shabby-looking people, and the travelers remarked,
very justly, that it was not much like Belgrave Square. On one side was an enormous
hotel, lifting up into the hot darkness an immense array of open, brightly lighted
windows. At the base of this populous structure was an eternal jangle of horsecars,
and all round it, in the upper dusk, was a sinister hum of mosquitoes. The ground
floor of the hotel seemed to be a huge transparent cage, flinging a wide glare
of gaslight into the street, of whic
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