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Updated: May 14, 2025

The picture was one of Jack's "strongest," as his admirers would have put it it represented, on his part, a swelling of muscles, a congesting of veins, a balancing, straddling and straining, that reminded one of the circus-clown's ironic efforts to lift a feather.

Edith Wharton - The Hermit and the Wild Woman

The picture was one of Jack's "strongest," as his admirers would have put it it represented, on his part, a swelling of muscles, a congesting of veins, a balancing, straddling and straining, that reminded one of the circus-clown's ironic efforts to lift a feather.

Edith Wharton - The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 2