The accidental mention had been made to me of the manner in which the situation of some luckless child of a divorced couple was affected, under my informant's eyes, by the remarriage of one of its parents-I forget which so that, thanks to the limited desire for its company expressed by the step-parent, the law of its little life, its being entertained in rotation by its father and its mother, wouldn't easily prevail. (v) I recognise again, for the first of these three Tales, another instance of the growth of the 'great oak' from the little acorn since 'What Maisie Knew' is at least a tree that spreads beyond any provision its small germ might on a first handling have appeared likely to make for it. (5) To facilitate electronic searching, the New York Edition's spaces before 'n't' (in contractions pronounced as two syllables) have been removed in this etext. (4) Possible errors in the 1908 edition have not been emended but are indicated thus. (3) To avoid the insertion of hard returns at the end of every line (which makes searching across line-breaks in downloaded files difficult), downloading with the HTML option, not the TXT option, is suggested then paragraphs will be ended with hard returns and HTML tags, (capital P enclosed in angle-brackets). Italics and accent marks have been removed from foreign words. (2) Italics for emphasis indicated by upper case, by lower case for the word _I_. Proofread by Sarah Koch (1) Numbers in parentheses indicate the beginning of each page in the New York Edition of 1908. New York Edition, 1908 Preface and text through Chapter18Įtext prepared by Richard Hathaway, SUNY New Paltz Henry James scholar's Guide to Web Sites'

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