Roderick Hudson
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You are Rowland Mallet, visiting your cousin Cecilia in stifling Northampton, when a small bronze of a young man drinking from a gourd stops you cold — modeled, she says, by a bored law clerk named Roderick Hudson. Meeting him, restless and mocking beneath real talent, you offer within a day to fund two years of sculpture study in Rome. His mother frets, his employer scoffs, and Mary Garland, a friend of the family, warns you that opening a door is not the same as rescue.
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- The Figure Called ThirstCecilia's Parlor