SOME SHORT STORIES

BY HENRY JAMES




Contents:

Brooksmith
The Real Thing
The Story of It
Flickerbridge
Mrs. Medwin




BROOKSMITH




We are scattered now, the friends of the late Mr. Oliver Offord;
but whenever we chance to meet I think we are conscious of a
certain esoteric respect for each other. "Yes, you too have been
in Arcadia," we seem not too grumpily to allow. When I pass the
house in Mansfield Street I remember that Arcadia was there. I
don't know who has it now, and don't want to know; it's enough to
be so sure that if I should ring the bell there would be no such