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<dTitle type=main>An International Episode</dTitle>
<byLine>by 
<dAuthor>Henry James</dAuthor> </byLine>
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<head>PART I</head>
<p>Four years ago&mdash;in 1874&mdash;two young Englishmen had occasion to go 
to the United States.  They crossed the ocean at midsummer, 
and, arriving in New York on the first day of August, 
were much struck with the fervid temperature of that city. 
Disembarking upon the wharf, they climbed into one of those huge 
high-hung coaches which convey passengers to the hotels, 
and with a great deal of bouncing and bumping, took their 
course through Broadway.  The midsummer aspect of New York 
is not, perhaps, the most favorable one; still, it is 
not without its picturesque and even brilliant side. 
Nothing could well resemble less a typical English street 
than the interminable avenue, rich in incongruities, 
through which our two travelers advanced&mdash;looking out o . . .