" A character in this story asks "What's the most inveterate mark of men in general?" during a speech in which she says "I'm your dull woman, a part of the daily bread for which [the protagonist prays] at church."
When this story's narrator spends a year "visiting the depths of Asia," he spend hours "before the temple of gods and the sepulchers of kings" and his spirit turns to the "nobleness of association." A character in this story asks "What's the most inveterate mark of men in general?" during a speech in which she says "I'm your dull woman, a part of the daily bread for which [the protagonist prays] at church." This novella opens with the protagonist staying at an estate called Weatherend, where he sees a woman whom he had met in Italy ten years prior, and had told her a mysterious secret. The protagonist of this story undergoes the "horror of waking" as he realizes he wasted his own "taste of life" after having a chance encounter at the grave of his deceased wife, May Bertram. For 10 points, name this story in which John Marcher awaits for some calamity to stricken him, written by Henry James.
When this story's narrator spends a year "visiting the depths of Asia," he spend hours "before the temple of gods and the sepulchers of kings" and his spirit turns to the "nobleness of association.
"The Beast in the Jungle"