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Quotation from The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James
“You said you had had from your earliest time, as the deepest thing within you, the sense of being kept for something rare and strange, possibly prodigious and terrible, that was sooner or later to happen to you”
The Beast in the Jungle, Chapter I (1915 Martin Secker edition (Project Gutenberg #1093))
At Weatherend May repeats to Marcher the confidence he gave her ten years earlier at Sorrento, which he had forgotten.
Citation: "You said you had had from your earliest time, as the deepest thing within you, the sense of being kept for something rare and strange, possibly prodigious and terrible, that was sooner or later to happen to you" — Henry James, The Beast in the Jungle, Chapter I (1915 Martin Secker edition (Project Gutenberg #1093)). (id henry-james-the-beast-in-the-jungle-q1)
