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A LONDON LIFE

AND OTHER TALES


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A LONDON LIFE

THE PATAGONIA

THE LIAR

MRS. TEMPERLY

BY

HENRY JAMES

London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND NEW YORK
1889


COPYRIGHT 1889

_BY_

HENRY JAMES




CONTENTS


                  PAGE

A LONDON LIFE        1

THE PATAGONIA      159

THE LIAR           241

MRS. TEMPERLY      317




NOTE

The last of the following four Tales originally appeared under a
different name.




A LONDON LIFE




I


It was raining, apparently, but she didn't mind--she would put on stout
shoes and walk over to Plash. She was restless and so fidgety that it
was a pain; there were strange voices that frightened her--they threw
out the ugliest intimations--in the empty rooms at home. She would see
old Mrs. Berrington, 