EMBARRASSMENTS

By Henry James


1896

CONTENTS

THE FIGURE IN THE CARPET

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VII

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X

XI

GLASSES

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II

III

IV

V

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VII

VIII

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X

XI

XII

XIII

THE NEXT TIME

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III

IV

V

THE WAY IT CAME

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VII

THE FIGURE IN THE CARPET

I

I had done a few things and earned a few pence—I had perhaps even had time to begin to think I was finer than was perceived by the patronising; but when I take the little measure of my course (a fidgety habit, for it's none of the longest yet) I count my real start from the evening George Corvick, breathless and worried, came in to ask me a service. He had