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At a late moment in The Wings of the Dove, Densher has a vision of the kind of life with him which would suit Kate: ‘What a person she would be if they had been rich — with what a genius for the so-called great life, what a presence for the so-called great house, what a grace for the so called great positions! He might regret at once […] that they weren’t princes or billionaires’ (502).
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Kventsel, A. (2007). ‘The Passions of Princes’: On The Golden Bowl. In: Decadence in the Late Novels of Henry James. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230206373_4
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