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Mr. Touchett
A patriotic American journalist and Isabel Archer’s friend. Isabel greatly admires Henrietta because she is bold, ambitious, and self-sufficient. While writing about European life for a newspaper column, Henrietta visits Isabel at Gardencourt (the Touchett family estate), where she is unimpressed with the mundane lives of the English elite. They are equally unimpressed with her brash, even ignorant attitudes. Henrietta sometimes offers Isabel sound advice, especially in her warnings about Gilbert Osmond’s untrustworthiness. But although Henrietta believes she has Isabel’s best interests at heart, she interferes in Isabel’s life by encouraging Caspar Goodwood’s romantic pursuits. Isabel is eventually disillusioned by her friend’s relinquishing her independence in marrying Mr. Bantling.
Henrietta Stackpole Quotes in The Portrait of a Lady
The The Portrait of a Lady quotes below are all either spoken by Henrietta Stackpole or refer to Henrietta Stackpole . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 10
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“I like the great country stretching away beyond the rivers and across the prairies, blooming and smiling, and spreading till it stops at the green Pacific! A strong, sweet, fresh odour seems to rise from it, and Henrietta—pardon my simile—has something of that odour in her garments.”
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“I’m not sure the Pacific’s so green as that,” he said; “but you’re a young woman of imagination. Henrietta, however, does smell of the Future—it almost knocks one down!”
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Chapter 17
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“Do you know where you’re drifting?” Henrietta pursued, holding out her bonnet delicately.
“No, I haven’t the least idea, and I find it very pleasant not to know. A swift carriage, on a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one cant see—that’s my idea of happiness.”
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“You’re a creature of risks—you make me shudder!” cried Henrietta.
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Chapter 20
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“The peril for you is that you live too much in the world of your own dreams. You’re not enough in contact with reality—with the toiling, striving, suffering, I may even say sinning, world that surrounds you. You’re too fastidious; you’ve too many graceful illusions. Your newly-acquired thousands will shut you up more and more to the society of a few selfish and heartless people who will be interested in keeping them up.”
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Henrietta Stackpole Quotes in The Portrait of a Lady
The The Portrait of a Lady quotes below are all either spoken by Henrietta Stackpole or refer to Henrietta Stackpole . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 10
Quotes
“I like the great country stretching away beyond the rivers and across the prairies, blooming and smiling, and spreading till it stops at the green Pacific! A strong, sweet, fresh odour seems to rise from it, and Henrietta—pardon my simile—has something of that odour in her garments.”
[…]
“I’m not sure the Pacific’s so green as that,” he said; “but you’re a young woman of imagination. Henrietta, however, does smell of the Future—it almost knocks one down!”
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Chapter 17
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“Do you know where you’re drifting?” Henrietta pursued, holding out her bonnet delicately.
“No, I haven’t the least idea, and I find it very pleasant not to know. A swift carriage, on a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one cant see—that’s my idea of happiness.”
[…]
“You’re a creature of risks—you make me shudder!” cried Henrietta.
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Chapter 20
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“The peril for you is that you live too much in the world of your own dreams. You’re not enough in contact with reality—with the toiling, striving, suffering, I may even say sinning, world that surrounds you. You’re too fastidious; you’ve too many graceful illusions. Your newly-acquired thousands will shut you up more and more to the society of a few selfish and heartless people who will be interested in keeping them up.”
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