The Wings of the Dove, published in 1902, represents to my memory a very old⁠—if I shouldn’t perhaps rather say a very young⁠—motive; I can scarce remember the time when the situation on which this lo...

She waited, Kate Croy, for her father to come in, but he kept her unconscionably, and there were moments at which she showed herself, in the glass over the mantel, a face positively pale with the irri...

She waited, Kate Croy, for her father to come in, but he kept her unconscionably, and there were moments at which she showed herself, in the glass over the mantel, a face positively pale with the irri...

She had gone to Mrs. Lowder on her mother’s death⁠—gone with an effort the strain and pain of which made her at present, as she recalled them, reflect on the long way she had travelled since then. The...

Merton Densher, who passed the best hours of each night at the office of his newspaper, had at times, during the day, to make up for it, a sense, or at least an appearance, of leisure, in accordance w...

Merton Densher, who passed the best hours of each night at the office of his newspaper, had at times, during the day, to make up for it, a sense, or at least an appearance, of leisure, in accordance w...

His eyes had followed her at this time quite long enough, before he overtook her, to make out more than ever, in the poise of her head, the pride of her step⁠—he didn’t know what best to call it⁠—a pa...

The two ladies who, in advance of the Swiss season, had been warned that their design was unconsidered, that the passes would not be clear, nor the air mild, nor the inns open⁠—the two ladies who, cha...

The two ladies who, in advance of the Swiss season, had been warned that their design was unconsidered, that the passes would not be clear, nor the air mild, nor the inns open⁠—the two ladies who, cha...

The girl said nothing, when they met, about the words scrawled on the Tauchnitz, and Mrs. Stringham then noticed that she had not the book with her. She had left it lying and probably would never reme...

It had all gone so fast after this that Milly uttered but the truth nearest to hand in saying to the gentleman on her right⁠—who was, by the same token, the gentleman on her hostess’s left⁠—that she s...

It had all gone so fast after this that Milly uttered but the truth nearest to hand in saying to the gentleman on her right⁠—who was, by the same token, the gentleman on her hostess’s left⁠—that she s...

That sense of quantities, separate or mixed, was indeed doubtless what most prevailed at first for our slightly gasping American pair; it found utterance for them in their frequent remark to each othe...

She certainly made up with Susie directly, however, for any allowance she might have had privately to extend to tepid appreciation; since the late and long talks of these two embraced not only everyth...

Lord Mark looked at her today in particular as if to wring from her a confession that she had originally done him injustice; and he was entitled to whatever there might be in it of advantage or merit ...

Lord Mark looked at her today in particular as if to wring from her a confession that she had originally done him injustice; and he was entitled to whatever there might be in it of advantage or merit ...

A prime reason, we must add, why sundry impressions were not to be fully present to the girl till later on was that they yielded at this stage, with an effect of sharp supersession, to a detached quar...

What it really came to, on the morrow, this first time⁠—the time Kate went with her⁠—was that the great man had, a little, to excuse himself; had, by a rare accident⁠—for he kept his consulting-hours ...

She had gone out with these last words so in her ears that when once she was well away⁠—back this time in the great square alone⁠—it was as if some instant application of them had opened out there bef...

Milly indeed at last couldn’t say; so that she had really for the time brought it along to the point so oddly marked for her by her visitor’s arrival, the truth that she was enviably strong. She carri...

It was doubtless because this queer form of directness had in itself, for the hour, seemed so sufficient that Milly was afterwards aware of having really, all the while⁠—during the strange, indescriba...

The idea of the National Gallery had been with her from the moment of her hearing from Sir Luke Strett about his hour of coming. It had been in her mind as a place so meagrely visited, as one of the p...

“I say, you know, Kate⁠—you did stay!” had been Merton Densher’s punctual remark on their adventure after they had, as it were, got out of it; an observation which she not less promptly, on her side, ...

“I say, you know, Kate⁠—you did stay!” had been Merton Densher’s punctual remark on their adventure after they had, as it were, got out of it; an observation which she not less promptly, on her side, ...

It was extraordinary enough that he should actually be finding himself, when Thursday arrived, none so wide of the mark. Kate hadn’t come all the way to this for him, but she had come to a good deal b...

He was really, notwithstanding, to hear more from her of what she saw; and the very next occasion had for him still other surprises than that. He received from Mrs. Lowder on the morning after his vis...

The younger of the other men, it afterwards appeared, was most in his element at the piano; so that they had coffee and comic songs upstairs⁠—the gentlemen, temporarily relinquished, submitting easily...

To see her alone, the poor girl, he none the less promptly felt, was to see her after all very much on the old basis, the basis of his three visits in New York; the new element, when once he was again...

When Kate and Densher abandoned her to Mrs. Stringham on the day of her meeting them together and bringing them to luncheon, Milly, face to face with that companion, had had one of those moments in wh...

When Kate and Densher abandoned her to Mrs. Stringham on the day of her meeting them together and bringing them to luncheon, Milly, face to face with that companion, had had one of those moments in wh...

It had at least made the difference for them, they could feel, of an informed state in respect to the great doctor, whom they were now to take as watching, waiting, studying, or at any rate as proposi...

Not yet so much as this morning had she felt herself sink into possession; gratefully glad that the warmth of the Southern summer was still in the high florid rooms, palatial chambers where hard cool ...

She couldn’t have said what it was, in the conditions, that renewed the whole solemnity, but by the end of twenty minutes a kind of wistful hush had fallen upon them, as before something poignant in w...

Densher became aware, afresh, that he disliked his hotel⁠—and all the more promptly that he had had occasion of old to make the same discrimination. The establishment, choked at that season with the p...

Densher became aware, afresh, that he disliked his hotel⁠—and all the more promptly that he had had occasion of old to make the same discrimination. The establishment, choked at that season with the p...

There was at last, with everything that made for it, an occasion when he got from Kate, on what she now spoke of as his eternal refrain, an answer of which he was to measure afterwards the precipitati...

She was good enough, as it proved, for him to put to her that evening, and with further ground for it, the next sharpest question that had been on his lips in the morning⁠—which his other preoccupatio...

It was after they had gone that he truly felt the difference, which was most to be felt moreover in his faded old rooms. He had recovered from the first a part of his attachment to this scene of conte...

It was after they had gone that he truly felt the difference, which was most to be felt moreover in his faded old rooms. He had recovered from the first a part of his attachment to this scene of conte...

He didn’t go home, on leaving her⁠—he didn’t want to; he walked instead, through his narrow ways and his campi with gothic arches, to a small and comparatively sequestered café where he had already mo...

They came to it almost immediately; he was to wonder afterwards at the fewness of their steps. “She has turned her face to the wall.” “You mean she’s worse?” The poor lady stood there as she had stopp...

The near Thursday, coming nearer and bringing Sir Luke Strett, brought also blessedly an abatement of other rigours. The weather changed, the stubborn storm yielded, and the autumn sunshine, baffled f...

“Then it has been⁠—what do you say? a whole fortnight?⁠—without your making a sign?” Kate put that to him distinctly, in the December dusk of Lancaster Gate and on the matter of the time he had been b...

“Then it has been⁠—what do you say? a whole fortnight?⁠—without your making a sign?” Kate put that to him distinctly, in the December dusk of Lancaster Gate and on the matter of the time he had been b...

He was to remain for several days under the deep impression of this inclusive passage, so luckily prolonged from moment to moment, but interrupted at its climax, as may be said, by the entrance of Aun...

He had said to her in the Park when challenged on it that nothing had “happened” to him as a cause for the demand he there made of her⁠—happened he meant since the account he had given, after his retu...

The difference was thus that the dusk of afternoon⁠—dusk thick from an early hour⁠—had gathered when he knocked at Mrs. Condrip’s door. He had gone from the church to his club, wishing not to present ...

Kate slowly rose; it was, since she had lighted the candles and sat down, the first movement she had made. “Are you trying to fix it on me that I must have told him?” She spoke not so much in resentme...