cigarette-puffs

Updated: July 10, 2025

Without sympathy or without imagination, for it came back again to that how should she get, for big dinners, down the middle and toward the far corners at all? It wasn't the combinations, which were easily managed: the strain was over the ineffable simplicities, those that the bachelors above all, and Lord Rye perhaps most of any, threw off just blew off like cigarette-puffs such sketches of.

Henry James - In the Cage