title: Experiencing Difference
author: Carl James
description: <DIV><b>Carl James</b> teaches in the faculty of education and in the School of Social Work at York University in Toronto. A former youth worker with an education in sociology, he teaches courses in the foundations of education, urban education, and practitioner research.<br></div>
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  # A Round of Visits
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Henry James
  
  
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  He had been out but once since his arrival, Mark Monteith; that was
  
  
  the next day after — he had disembarked by night on the previous;
  
  
  then everything had come at once, as he would have said, everything
  
  
  had changed. He had got in on Tuesday; he had spent Wednesday for the
  
  
  most part down town, looking into the dismal subject of his anxiety —
  
  
  the anxiety that, under a sudden decision, had brought him across the
  
  
  unfriendly sea at mid-winter, and it was through information reaching
  
  
  him on Wednesday evening that he had measured his loss, measured,
  
  
  above all, his pain. These were two distinct things, he felt, and,
  
  
  though both bad, one much worse than the other. It wasn't till the
  
  
  next three days had pretty well ebbed, in fact, that he knew himself
  
  
  for so