sandist

Updated: May 1, 2025

As an old Sandist not exactly indeed of the <i>premiere heure</i>, but of the fine high noon and golden afternoon of the great career I had been, though I confess too inactively, curious as to a few points in the topography of the eminent adventure to which I here allude; but had never got beyond the little public fact, in itself always a bit of a thrill to the Sandist, that the present Hotel Danieli had been the scene of its first remarkable stages.

Henry James - Italian Hours