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Marrying a man, or woman either," Miss Barrace sagely went on, "is never the wonder for any Jack and Jill can bring THAT off. The wonder is their doing such things without marrying." Strether considered a moment this proposition. "You mean it's so beautiful for our friends simply to go on so?" But whatever he said made her laugh. "Beautiful." He nevertheless insisted.
"Not even!" the young man woefully confessed: "they haven't gone through that form. They've simply the cannibals! eaten me; converted me if you like, but converted me into food. I'm but the bleached bones of a Christian." "Well then there we are! Only" and Miss Barrace appealed again to Strether "don't let it discourage you.
And I who should have liked to seem to you well, sublime!" He could only after a moment re-echo Miss Barrace. "You're wonderful!" "I'm old and abject and hideous" she went on as without hearing him. "Abject above all. Or old above all. It's when one's old that it's worst. I don't care what becomes of it let what WILL; there it is. It's a doom I know it; you can't see it more than I do myself.
She made this proposal to Miss Barrace as if her consciousness of a special duty had just flickered-up, but that lady's recognition of Strether's little start at it as at a betrayal on the speaker's part of a domesticated state was as mute as his own comment; and after an instant, when their fellow guest had good-naturedly left them, he had been given something else to think of.
"Miss Barrace is a raffinee, and her amusement won't lose by Mrs. Pocock. It will gain rather especially if Sarah triumphs and she comes in for a view of it." "How well you know us!" Madame de Vionnet, at this, frankly sighed. "No it seems to me it's we that I know. I know Sarah it's perhaps on that ground only that my feet are firm.
But he was prevented by Simon Glover, who, with other burgesses of consideration, had now entered the barrace. "Henry, my beloved son Henry!" said the old man. "Oh, what tempted you to this fatal affray? Dying speechless?" "No not speechless," said Henry. "Catharine " He could utter no more. "Catharine is well, I trust, and shall be thine that is, if "
"Oh every one must know now," poor Strether thoughtfully admitted; "and it's strange enough and funny enough that one should feel everybody here at this very moment to be knowing and watching and waiting." "Yes isn't it indeed funny?" Miss Barrace quite rose to it. "That's the way we ARE in Paris." She was always pleased with a new contribution to that queerness. "It's wonderful!
That idea, even though but transient and perhaps belated, had performed the office of putting Strether more at his ease, and the blurred picture had already dropped dropped with the sound of something else said and with his becoming aware, by another quick turn, that Gloriani was now on the sofa talking with Jeanne, while he himself had in his ears again the familiar friendliness and the elusive meaning of the "Oh, oh, oh!" that had made him, a fortnight before, challenge Miss Barrace in vain.
He's scared at his heroism he shrinks from his part." "Ah but we nevertheless believe he'll play it. That's why," Miss Barrace kindly went on, "we take such an interest in you. We feel you'll come up to the scratch." And then as he seemed perhaps not quite to take fire: "Don't let him do it." "Don't let Chad go?" "Yes, keep hold of him.
He wondered what he was to think exactly of either of his new friends; since the young man, Chad's intimate and deputy, had, in thus constituting the scene, practised so much more subtly than he had been prepared for, and since in especial Miss Barrace, surrounded clearly by every consideration, hadn't scrupled to figure as a familiar object.
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