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The Patagonia QUOTES

The Patagonia QUOTES

1 " She has been crying here and going on—she has quite upset me. "

― Henry James , The Patagonia

2 " more charming than that over there, you know!”  She made me very welcome, but her son had told her about the Patagonia, for which she was sorry, as this would mean a longer voyage.  She was a poor creature in any boat and mainly confined to her "

― Henry James , The Patagonia

3 " Rush? not in the least.  I take it uncommon easy.” “Ah I’m bound to say you do!” Mrs. Nettlepoint returned with inconsequence.  I guessed at a certain tension between the pair and a want of consideration on the young man’s part, arising perhaps from selfishness.  His mother was nervous, in suspense, wanting to be at rest as to whether she should have his company on the voyage or be obliged to struggle alone.  But as he stood there smiling and slowly moving his fan he struck me somehow as a person on whom this fact wouldn’t sit too heavily.  He was of the type of those whom other people worry about, not of those who worry about other people.  Tall and strong, "

― Henry James , The Patagonia

4 " there till we reached Liverpool—I never saw him.  His mother, after a little, at his request, left him alone.  "

― Henry James , The Patagonia

5 " He gave me a look, but in the dusk I couldn’t make out very well what it conveyed.  Then he bent over his mother, kissing her.  “My news isn’t particularly satisfactory.  I’m going for you.” “Oh you humbug!” she replied.  But she was of course delighted. "

― Henry James , The Patagonia

6 " The secret of what passed between him and the strange girl who "

― Henry James , The Patagonia

7 " in the August night and the perspective of Beacon "

― Henry James , The Patagonia

8 " little and then gone back.  Miss Mavis hadn’t turned up—and she didn’t turn up.  The stewardess began to look for her—she hadn’t been seen on deck or in the saloon.  Besides, she wasn’t dressed—not to show herself; all her clothes were in her "

― Henry James , The Patagonia

9 " Mrs. Gotch a wide berth—I couldn’t talk to them.  I could, "

― Henry James , The Patagonia

10 " Mrs. Nettlepoint stared.  “I couldn’t do that.” On which I was the more amused that I had to explain I was only amused.  “What does it signify now?” “I thought you thought everything signified.  You were so full,” she cried, “of signification!” “Yes, but we’re further out now, and somehow in mid-ocean everything becomes absolute.” “What else can "

― Henry James , The Patagonia

11 " Jasper to her.  I was obliged "

― Henry James , The Patagonia

12 " sea.  I was even glad of what I had learned in the afternoon at the office of the company—that at the eleventh "

― Henry James , The Patagonia

13 " He would return in half an hour—or in less.  He walked away and I sat there alone, conscious, on the dark dismantled simplified scene, in the deep silence that rests on American towns during the hot season—there was now and then a far cry or a plash in the water, and at intervals the tinkle of the bells of the horse-cars on the long bridge, slow in the suffocating night—of the strange influence, half-sweet, half-sad, that abides in houses uninhabited or about to become so, in places muffled and bereaved, where the unheeded sofas and patient belittered tables seem (like the disconcerted dogs, to whom everything is alike sinister) to recognise the eve of a journey. "

― Henry James , The Patagonia

14 " impression of having seen me before.  It was not till afterwards that I thought this rather characteristically dull of him.  I drew him far away—I was "

― Henry James , The Patagonia

15 " must excuse him—he should have to go back to the club.  He would return in half an hour—or in less.  He walked "

― Henry James , The Patagonia

16 " on so short an acquaintance remains shut up in his breast.  His mother, I know, went to his door "

― Henry James , The Patagonia

17 " muddle of farewells before we put off; we talked a little about the boat, our fellow-passengers and our prospects, and then I said: “I think you mentioned last night a name I know—that of Mr. Porterfield.” “Oh no I didn’t! "

― Henry James , The Patagonia

18 " fast ones, if you’re impatient.” She was silent a little after which she brought out: “Oh I guess it’ll be fast enough! "

― Henry James , The Patagonia

19 " was all very interesting.” She continued to look at me.  “You don’t think that,” she then simply stated. “What have I to gain "

― Henry James , The Patagonia

20 " Agreeable in the sense of floating there in infinite isolation and leisure that it was. "

― Henry James , The Patagonia