I am not afraid, she said; which seemed quite presumptuous enough.You are not afraid of suffering?Yes, I am afraid of suffering. But I am not afraid of ghosts. And I think people suffer too easily, she added.I dont believe you do, said Ralph, looking at her with his hands in his pockets.I dont think thats a fault, she answered. It is not absolutely necessary to suffer; we were not made for that.You were not, certainly.I am not speaking of myself. And she turned away a little.No, it isnt a fault, said her cousin. Its a merit to be strong.Only, if you dont suffer, they call you hard, Isabel remarked. They passed out of the smaller drawing-room, into which they had returned from the gallery, and paused in the hall, at the foot of the staircase. Here Ralph presented his companion with her bed-room candle, which he had taken from a niche. Never mind what they call you, he said. When you do suffer, they call you an idiot. The great point is to be as happy as possible.
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Henry James was a 19th-century American and british writer. Henry James was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. Read more on Wikipedia →