A character in this story claims that "the most inveterate mark of men in general" is "the capacity to spend endless time with dull women".
A character in this story claims that "the most inveterate mark of men in general" is "the capacity to spend endless time with dull women". Theodora Bosanquet allows Minnie Kidd to read this story in the novel Author, Author. This story opens at a party at Weatherend, where two characters compare memories of a meeting in Rome during which a thunderstorm drove them to seek shelter at Pompeii. Its main male character is obsessed with avoiding "selfishness", despite the fact that his constant (*) female companion's self- stated life's goal is "to help you to pass for a man like another". At its end, the protagonist laments having never accepted the love of May Bartram, realizing that wasting his life was exactly the catastrophe he'd long feared. For 10 points, name this novella in which John Marcher likens his sense of foreboding to the lurking title creature, a work of Henry James.
A character in this story claims that "the most inveterate mark of men in general" is "the capacity to spend endless time with dull women".
“The {Beast in the Jungle}”