Cecilia had moreover a turn for sarcasm, and her smile, whi… - Henry James

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Cecilia had moreover a turn for sarcasm, and her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.

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Henry James, OM (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James Sr. and the brother of renowned philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.

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..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.

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