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"She seemed to think," Maria answered, "that he might have gone away with YOU." "And did you tell her I know nothing of him?" She had her indulgent headshake. "I've known nothing of what you know. I could only tell her I'd ask you." "Then I've not seen him for a week and of course I've wondered." His wonderment showed at this moment as sharper, but he presently went on.
"I regret to say it, Torchy," says he, "but someone ought to have an eye on that boy." "Oh, come, Piddie!" says I. "Not Vincent! Why, he's a model youth. You've always said so yourself polite, respectful, washes behind the ears, takes home his pay envelope uncracked to mother, all that sort of thing. Why the mournful headshake over him now?"
She had been expecting me; she was ready. She gave a long, slow, soundless headshake, merciful only in being inarticulate. This mercy didn't prevent its hurling at me the largest, finest, coldest "Never!" I had yet, in the course of a life that had known denials, had to take full in the face. I took it and was aware that with the hard blow the tears had come into my eyes.
Perhaps her last letter to her father, written from Pensham on the night of her arrival there, had given too rose-coloured an account of her visit to Chorlton, and had caused the rather serious headshake which greeted her admission that old Maisie was still a quasi-invalid, on her back from the merest quite the merest weakness.
"Ah but the day you arrived you met Maria. Whom has Miss Pocock met?" He paused again, but he brought it out. "Hasn't she met Chad?" "Certainly but not for the first time. He's an old friend." At which Strether had a slow amused significant headshake that made her go on: "You mean that for HER at least he's a new person that she sees him as different?" "She sees him as different."
"There's something I wish awfully I could say to you. But I can't." Nanda, after a slow headshake, covered him with one of the dimmest of her smiles. "You needn't say it. I know perfectly which it is." She held him an instant, after which she went on: "It's simply that you wish me fully to understand that you're one who, in perfect sincerity, doesn't mind one straw how awful !" "Yes, how awful?"
"Oh fatally! See how I have. And see how you have with ME. She's intelligent, moreover, remarkably pretty, remarkably good. And she'll adore you." "Well then?" "Why that will be just how she'll do for you." "Oh I can hold my own!" said Miss Wenham with the headshake of a horse making his sleigh-bells rattle in frosty air. "Ah but you can't hold hers! She'll rave about you. She'll write about you.
Susan shuddered. "Oh, no," she said. "I suppose he's very nice and really he's quite a wonderful actor. But I I don't care for men." Mabel laughed again curt, bitter. "Wait," she said. Susan shook her head, with youth's positiveness. "What's caring got to do with it?" pursued Mabel, ignoring the headshake.
She was obviously, inevitably, impulsively the original product, and Uncle Percival never realised this more hopelessly than in that unresponsive headshake of dismissal. Laura could be kind, he knew, but she was kind, as she was a poet, when the mood prompted. "Presently not now," she said, "I want to talk to you awhile.
The pond, oblong in shape, had a width so scant compared to its length that, with its ends out of view, it might have been taken for a scant river. We looked at the empty expanse, and then I felt the suggestion of my friend's eyes. I knew what she meant and I replied with a negative headshake. "No, no; wait! She has taken the boat."
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