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4. “This impression came out most for Maggie when, in their easier intervals, they had only themselves to regard, and when her companion’s inveteracy of never passing first, of not sitting till she was seated, of not interrupting till she appeared to give leave, of not forgetting too familiarly that in addition to being important she was also sensitive, had the effect of throwing over their intercourse a kind of silver tissue of decorum.”
Henry James
Social Etiquette, Sensitive Relationships, Interpersonal Dynamics, Thoughtful Actions, Personal Importance, Silver Decorum
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4. “This impression came out most for Maggie when, in their easier intervals, they had only themselves to regard, and when her companion’s inveteracy of never passing first, of not sitting till she was seated, of not interrupting till she appeared to give leave, of not forgetting too familiarly that in addition to being important she was also sensitive, had the effect of throwing over their intercourse a kind of silver tissue of decorum.”
Henry James Social Etiquette, Sensitive Relationships, Interpersonal Dynamics, Thoughtful Actions, Personal Importance, Silver Decorum
