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Title: Stories by American Authors, Volume 5
Contents:
A Light Man, By Henry James.
Yatil, By F.D. Millet.
The End Of New York, By Park Benjamin.
Why Thomas Was Discharged, By George Arnold.
The Tachypomp, By E.P. Mitchell

Author: Various

Release Date: March 4, 2004 [EBook #11437]
[Date last updated: January 22, 2005]

Language: English

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[Illustration: H. James]

Stories by American Authors V.

A LIGHT MAN.

By Henry James.

YATIL.

By F.D. Millet.

THE END OF NEW YORK.

By Park Benjamin.

WHY THOMAS WAS DISCHARGED.

By George Arnold.

THE TACHYPOMP.

By E.P. Mitchell.

1884

A LIGHT MAN.

BY Henry James.[1]

"And I--what I seem to my friend, you see--
What I soon shall seem to his love, you guess.
What I seem to myself, do you ask of me?
No hero, I confess."

_A Light Woman.--Browning's Men and Women_.

April 4, 1857.--I have changed my sky without changing my mind. I resume
these old notes in a new world. I hardly know of what use they are; but
it's easier to stick to the habit than to drop it. I have been at home
now a week--at home, forsooth! And yet, after all, it is home. I am
dejected, I am bored, I am blue. How can a man be more at home than
that? Nevertheless, I am the citizen of a great country, and for that
matter, of a great city. I walked to-day some ten miles or so along
Broadway, and on the whole I don't blush for my native land. We are a
capable race and a good-looking withal; and I don't see why we
shouldn't prosper as well as another. This, by the way, ought to be a
very encouraging reflection. A capable fellow and a good-looking withal;
I don't see why he shouldn't die a millionaire. At all events he must do
something. When a man has, at thirty-two, a net income of considerably
less than nothing, he can scarcely hope to overtake a fortune before he
himself is overtaken by age