Quote#World
I was there to protect and defend the little creatures in the world…
Quote byHenry James · 1843–1916
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Turn of the Screw (1898), Ch. II.
English (original)
I was there to protect and defend the little creatures in the world the most bereaved and the most loveable, the appeal of whose helplessness had suddenly become only too explicit, a deep, constant ache of one's own committed heart. We were cut off, really, together; we were united in our danger. They had nothing but me, and I - well, I had them.
— Henry James
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