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Quotation from The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James
“When the day came, as come it had to, that his friend confessed to him her fear of a deep disorder in her blood, he felt somehow the shadow of a change and the chill of a shock”
The Beast in the Jungle, Chapter III (1915 Martin Secker edition (Project Gutenberg #1093))
May's illness is announced; the following sentences show that Marcher's first thoughts are of his own privation.
Citation: "When the day came, as come it had to, that his friend confessed to him her fear of a deep disorder in her blood, he felt somehow the shadow of a change and the chill of a shock" — Henry James, The Beast in the Jungle, Chapter III (1915 Martin Secker edition (Project Gutenberg #1093)). (id henry-james-the-beast-in-the-jungle-q5)
