Jamesian Heroine

 

It was part of the charm attendant upon
the prospect of the daily exhumation
of what she could only think of as the rarest
part of her soul –

indeed, part of the charm which conduced

ineluctably to the whole –

that she, though having evidently meekly

and completely met the expectations
of her time and subjugated place
in Eighteen-Eighty-Two –

was able in her silent privacy

supremely to eschew

what she’s decided

she will not confide
to you.







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