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gondola...cf. end of chapter 1 of The Aspern Papers, Henry James. At this point in the novel, which takes place in Venice, the scholar arrives at the old palace in which the former mistress of his subject, Jeffrey Aspern, still lives with her daughter. Eliot identified the source on the Thayer copy. The quotation here probably derives from another quotation, namely from Ford Madox Hueffer in Henry James, A Critical Study (1913, new edition 1918), p. 141. reference topics
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