title: Baroness Cox: Eyewitness to a Broken World
author:  Lela Gilbert 
description: "The book, like the Baroness' life, delivers a powerful summons for all called to compassion to use what they have, where they are, for the benefit of those they may never see." (<i>Outreach Magazine</i> 2009-03-01)
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  # The Given Case
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Henry James
  
  
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  Barton Reeve waited, with outward rigour and inward rage, till
  
  
  every one had gone: there was in particular an objectionable,
  
  
  travelled, superior young man — a young man with a long neck and bad
  
  
  shoes, especially great on Roumania — whom he was determined to
  
  
  outstay. He could only wonder the while whether he most hated designed
  
  
  or unconscious unpleasantness. It was a Sunday afternoon, the time in
  
  
  the week when, for some subtle reason, 'such people' — Reeve freely
  
  
  generalised them — most take liberties. But even when the young man
  
  
  had disappeared there still remained Mrs Gorton, Margaret Hamer's
  
  
  sister and actual hostess — it was with this lady that Miss Hamer was
  
  
  at present staying. He was sustained, however, as he had been for half
  
  
  an hour previous, 