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What Maisie Knew — Henry James
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What Maisie Knew
by Henry James · 1897
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1. What Maisie Knew
2. The Child Was Provided for, but the New Arrangement Was Inevitably
3. In That Lively Sense of the Immediate Which Is the Very Air of a Child's
4. She Was Therefore All the More Startled When Her Mother Said to Her in
5. All This Led Her on, but It Brought on Her Fate as Well, the Day When
6. The Second Parting From Miss Overmore Had Been Bad Enough, but This
7. She Became Aware in Time That This Phase Wouldn't Have Shone by
8. It Quite Fell in with This Intensity That One Day, on Returning From
9. After Mrs. Wix's Retreat Miss Overmore Appeared to Recognise That She
10. The Idea of What She Was to Make Up and the Prodigious Total It Came
11. He Was Smoking a Cigarette and He Stood Before the Fire and Looked
12. It Must Not Be Supposed That Her Ladyship's Intermissions Were Not
13. She Had Not at the Moment Explained Her Ominous Speech, but the Light of
14. This Might Moreover Have Been Taken to Be the Sense of a Remark Made by
15. Mrs Beale Fairly Swooped Upon Her and the Effect of the Whole Hour Was
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17. As She Met the Captain's Light Blue Eyes the Greatest Marvel Occurred;
18. If for Reasons of Her Own She Could Bear the Sense of Sir Claude's
19. The Child, However, Was Not Destined to Enjoy Much of Sir Claude at the
20. When He Had Lighted a Cigarette and Begun to Smoke in Her Face It Was as
21. The Money Was Far Too Much Even for a Fee in a Fairy-Tale, and in the
22. A Good Deal of the Rest of Ida's Visit Was Devoted to Explaining, as It
23. The Next Day It Seemed to Her Indeed at the Bottom--Down Too Far, in
24. Sir Claude Was Stationed at the Window; He Didn't So Much as Turn Round,
25. It Continued to Rain So Hard That Our Young Lady's Private Dream of
26. Every Single Thing He Had Prophesied Came So True That It Was After All
27. Nothing So Dreadful of Course Could Be Final or Even for Many Minutes
28. The Greatest Wonder of All Was the Way Mrs. Beale Addressed Her
29. Mrs. Beale, at Table Between the Pair, Plainly Attracted the Attention
30. Her Sleep Was Drawn Out, She Instantly Recognised Lateness in the Way
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32. She Remained Out with Him for a Time of Which She Could Take No Measure
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