Dying+Daisy

Our Featured Author: Henry James Main Focus:
 * //Daisy Miller//**

Featured Artist: Noah Grey "Dying Daisy"



An Excerpt from //Daisy Miller// p. 57

"Never, indeed, since he had grown old enough to appreciate things, had he encountered an American girl of so pronounced a type as this. Certainly she was very charming; but how deucedly sociable! Was she simply a pretty girl from New York State - where they all like that, the pretty girls who ahd a good deal of gentlemen's society? or was she also a designing, an audacious, an unscrupulous young person? Winterbourne had lost his instinct in this matter, and his reason could not help him. Miss Daisy Miller looked extremely innocent. Some people had told him that, after all, American girls were exceedingly innocent; and others had told him that, after all, they were not."

p. 100

"When Daisy came to take leave of Mrs Walker, this lady conscientiously repaired the weakness of which she had been guilty at the moment of the young girl's arrival. She turned her back straight upon Miss Miller and left her to depart with what grace she might. Winterbourne was standing near the door; he saw it all. Daisy turned very pale and looked at her mother, but Mrs Miller was humbly unconscious of any violation of the usual social forms."

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