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That, all the same, was what had happened; it had been bitten into her mind, all in an hour, that nothing she had ever done would hereafter, in some way yet to be determined, so count for her perhaps not even what she had done in accepting, in their old golden Rome, Amerigo's proposal of marriage.
As for our evenings, they won't, I dare say, be particularly different from anything else that's ours. They won't be different from our mornings or our afternoons except perhaps that you two dears will sometimes help us to get through them. I've offered to go anywhere," she added; "to take a house if he will. But THIS just this and nothing else is Amerigo's idea.
With their stillness together so perfect, what had suggested so, around them, the attitude of sparing them? Her inner vision fixed it once more, this attitude, saw it, in the others, as vivid and concrete, extended it straight from her companion to Charlotte. Before she was well aware, accordingly, she had echoed in this intensity of thought Amerigo's last words.
Amerigo's not having "told" her of his passage with his wife gave, for Maggie, altogether a new aspect to Charlotte's consciousness and condition an aspect with which, for apprehension, for wonder, and even, at moments, inconsequently enough, for something like compassion, the Princess had now to reckon.
I mean you and he alone," Maggie pursued with her gaze out of her window. For which Amerigo's answer again took him a moment. "Ah, the dear old boy! You would like me to propose him something ?" "Well, if you think you could bear it." "And leave," the Prince asked, "you and Charlotte alone?" "Why not?" Maggie had also to wait a minute, but when she spoke it came clear.
That, all the same, was what had happened; it had been bitten into her mind, all in an hour, that nothing she had ever done would hereafter, in some way yet to be determined, so count for her perhaps not even what she had done in accepting, in their old golden Rome, Amerigo's proposal of marriage.
Amerigo's name was put on an old chart or sketch to indicate the point of land where he landed, five years after Columbus discovered the country, and this crept into print by accident. Opposite the entrance to the Sevres Museum in the old town of Sevres, in France, stands a handsome bronze statue of Bernard Palissy, the potter.
Her husband's tone somehow fitted Amerigo's look the one that had, for her, so strangely, peeped, from behind, over the shoulder of the one in front. She had not then read it but wasn't she reading it when she now saw in it his surmise that she was perhaps to be squared?
They were somehow conjoined in it, conjoined for a present effect as Maggie had absolutely never yet seen them; and there occurred, before long, a moment in which Amerigo's look met her own in recognitions that he couldn't suppress.
It was only that a charming clever woman wondered about her that is wondered about her as Amerigo's wife, and wondered, moreover, with the intention of kindness and the spontaneity, almost, of surprise.
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