“Their one idea was to get in with people who didn’t want them and to take snubs as if they were honorable scars.”
Henry James, “The Pupil”
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“Their one idea was to get in with people who didn’t want them and to take snubs as if they were honorable scars.”
Henry James, “The Pupil”