The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all… — Henry James
The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his—attached to his own like a small garden-plot to a deer-park.
The Atlantic Monthly/Macmillan's Magazine · 1881
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James, Henry. The Portrait of a Lady, edited by Roger Luckhurst. Oxford University Press, 2009.
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James, Henry. "The Portrait of a Lady." The Atlantic Monthly/Macmillan's Magazine, 1880–81.
