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\n0F THE TALES  \n# THE ALTAR OFTHE DEAD\n\nBY HENRY JAMES  \nLONDON:MARTIN SECKERNUMBER FIVE JOHN STREET ADELPHI  \nThis edition fret publiehed 1915  \nThe text follows that of theDefinitive Edition  \nI  \nHe had a mortal dislike,poor Stransom,to leananniversaries,and loved them still less whenthey made a pretence of a figure.Celebrationsand suppressions were equally painful to him,andbut one of the former found a place in his life.He had kept each year in his own fashion the dateof Mary Antrim's death.It would be more to thepoint perhaps to say that this occasion kept him:it kept him at least effectually from doing anythingelse.It took hold of him again and again with ahand of which time had softened but never loosenedthe touch.He waked to his feast of memory asconsciously as he would have waked to hismarriage-morn.Marriage had had of old but toolittle to say to the matter:for the girl who wasto have been his bride there had been no bridalembrace.She had died of a malignant fever afterthe wedding-day had been fixed,and he had lostbefore fairly tasting it an affection that promisedto fill his life to the brim.  \nOf that benediction,however,it would havebeen false to say this life could really be emptied:it was still ruled by a pale ghost,still ordered by  \n5  \n# THE ALTAR OF THE DEAD\n\na sovereign presence.He had not been a manof numerous passions,and even in all these yearsno sense had grown stronger with him than thesense of being bereft.He had needed no priestand no altar to make him for ever widowed.Hehad done many things in the world—he had donealmost all but one:he had never,never forgotten.He had tried to put into his existence whateverelse might take up room in it,but had failed tomake it more than a house of which the mistresswas eternally absent.She was most absent ofall on the recurrent December day that his tenacityset apart.He had no arranged observance of it,but his nerves made it all their own.They drovehim forth without mercy,and the goal of hispilgrimage was far.She had been buried in aLondon suburb,a part then of Nature's breast,but which he had seen lose one after another everyfeature of freshness.It was in truth during themoments he stood there that his eyes beheld theplace least.They looked at another image,they opened to another light.Was it a crediblefuture?Was it an incredible past?Whateverthe answer it was an immense escape from theactual.  \nIt's true that if there were n't other dates thanthis there were other memories;and by the timeGeorge Stransom was fifty-five such memories had","cbCaifEbX530tKvX","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifEbX530tKvX","pdf",3151740,84,"English","# The Death Anniversary\n## Memory as Compulsion\n## The Graveside Journey\n## Escape from the Present","[{\"question\":\"Who is the central character, and what has he lost?\",\"answer\":\"George Stransom is the central character, and he has been widowed by Mary Antrim, whose death he never forgets.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the recurring 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