∗a daughter unloved, a suitor suspect, fortune turns cold

In a country in which, to play a social part, you must either earn your …

It will be seen that I am describing a clever man; and this is really th…

To learn something interesting, and to do something useful—this was, rou…

For a man whose trade was to keep people alive, he had certainly done po…

∗James deploys a narrator of measured irony to anatomize American social aspiration and domestic disappointment through the story of Dr.

A widowed physician's brilliant coldness shapes his plain daughter's fate.