in-tenser

Updated: May 17, 2025

You miss it, my dear fellow, with inimitable assurance; the fact of your being awfully clever and your article's being awfully nice doesn't make a hair's breadth of difference. It's quite with you rising young men," Vereker laughed, "that I feel most what a failure I am!" I listened with intense interest; it grew in-tenser as he talked. "You a failure heavens!

Henry James - Embarrassments