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Authors: Henry James

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Atlantic Ocean inlet in southeastern Massachusetts that extends to the base of the Cape Cod peninsula.

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Oil painting (c.1513) by Raphael that depicts the Madonna and Child floating on clouds. It is now in Dresden, Germany.

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Also the title of an 1883 novel by William Dean Howells, a close friend of Henry James.

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House constructed of wood.

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Town in eastern Massachusetts at the northern tip of Cape Cod; in the nineteenth century, an active whaling and fishing port.

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One who poses (French; here, referring to a female); a show-off.

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That’s all I need! (French).

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Passages or openings in an ancient amphitheater leading to or from the seats.

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Pagan Egyptian Neoplatonist philosopher and mathematician (A.D. 370-415); she was killed by a fanatical Christian mob.

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