After her friend goes on a walk with the middle book of a three volume set, the protagonist of this novel brings the first book, as an excuse for them to talk privately.
A character in this novel praises a woman for having a moral sense like a "lightning elevator" compared to his, which is more like a broken old staircase. After her friend goes on a walk with the middle book of a three volume set, the protagonist of this novel brings the first book, as an excuse for them to talk privately. Its protagonist uses the derisive term "American City" for the town where her millionaire widower father plans to dedicate a museum. In this novel, a shopkeeper recognizes photographs of a pair who spoke (*) Italian during their trip to buy a wedding present for the protagonist, choosing to pass over the title object due to well-founded suspicions that it had a crack in its crystal structure. In this novel, the gossipy Fanny Assingham conceals the affair between Charlotte Stant and the protagonist's husband Prince Amerigo. For 10 points, name this novel in which Maggie Verver buys the title flawed dish, written by Henry James. 
A character in this novel praises a woman for having a moral sense like a "lightning elevator" compared to his, which is more like a broken old staircase.
The Golden Bowl 