Daisy Miller a study Author:Henry James Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FOUR MEETINGS. I Saw her only four times, but I remember them vividly ; she made an impression upon me. I thought her very pretty and very interesting—a charm... more »ing specimen of a type. I am very sorry to hear of her death ; and yet, when I think of it, why should I be sorry? The last time I saw her she was certainly not But I will describe all our meetings in order. The first one took place in the country, at a little tea-party, one snowy night. It must have been some seventeen years ago.My friend Latouche, going to spend Christmas with his mother, had persuaded me to go with him, and the good lady had given in our honour the entertainment of which I speak. To me it was really entertaining; I had never been in the depths of New England at that season. It had been snowing all day and the drifts were knee-high. I wondered how the ladies had made their way to the house; but I perceived that at Grimwinter a conversazione offering the attraction of two gentlemen from New York was felt to be worth an an effort. Mrs. Latouche in the course of the evening asked me if I " didn't want to" show the photographs to some of the youngladies. The photographs were in a couple of great portfolios, and had been brought home by her son, who, like myself, was lately returned from Europe. I looked round and was struck with the fact that most of the young ladies were' provided with an object of interest more absorbing than the most vivid sun-picture. But there was a person standing alone near the mantel-shelf, and looking round the room with a small, gentle smile which seemed at odds, somehow, with her isolation. I looked at her a moment, and then said, " I should like to show them to that yonng lady." " Oh yes," said Mrs. Latouche, " she is just the person. She doesn't care for flirting; I ...« less