Colonel Thomas Newcome, an honest old India veteran, returns to London society and watches his artist son Clive's love for their cousin Ethel founder on family pride and money, as the Colonel's own fortune and health decline.
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The Wings of the Dove by Henry James: “She could relate to Susie later on, late the same evening, that the legend, before she had done with it, had run clear, that the adored author of The Newcomes, in fine, had been on the whole the note: the picture lacking thus more than she had hoped, or rather perhaps showing less than she had feared, a certain possibility of Pickwickian…”