palace-windows

Updated: May 17, 2025

Hold to it that to float and slacken and gently bump, to creep out of the low, dark <i>felze</i> and make the few guided movements and find the strong crooked and offered arm, and then, beneath lighted palace-windows, pass up the few damp steps on the precautionary carpet hold to it that these things constitute a preparation of which the only defect is that it may sometimes perhaps really prepare too much.

Henry James - Italian Hours