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This had consisted of a note from Densher accompanying a letter, "just to hand," addressed him by an eminent American legal firm, a firm of whose high character he had become conscious while in New York as of a thing in the air itself, and whose head and front, the principal executor of Milly Theale's copious will, had been duly identified at Lancaster Gate as the gentleman hurrying out, by the straight southern course, before the girl's death, to the support of Mrs.

They dreamt dreams, in truth, he appeared to perceive, that fairly waked him up, and he settled himself in his place both to resist his embarrassment and to catch the full revelation. His embarrassment came naturally from the fact that if he could claim no credit for Miss Theale's success, so neither could he gracefully insist on his not having been concerned with her.

Little Miss Theale's individual history was not stuff for his newspaper; besides which, moreover, he was seeing but too many little Miss Theales. They even went so far as to impose themselves as one of the groups of social phenomena that fell into the scheme of his public letters. For this group in especial perhaps the irrepressible, the supereminent young persons his best pen was ready.

This circumstance of their charming friend's illness was the first thing Kate took up with Densher on their being able after dinner, without bravado, to have ten minutes "naturally," as she called it which wasn't what he did together; but it was already as if the young man had, by an odd impression, throughout the meal, not been wholly deprived of Miss Theale's participation. Mrs.

I'm treating you handsomely, I'm looking after it for you. I can I can smooth your path. She's charming, she's clever and she's good. And her fortune's a real fortune." Ah there she was, Aunt Maud! The pieces fell together for him as he felt her thus buying him off, and buying him it would have been funny if it hadn't been so grave with Miss Theale's money.

This was to pay him it was the one chance for all imputations; the imputation in particular that, clever, tanto bello and not rich, the young man from London was by the obvious way pressing Miss Theale's fortune hard.

If he might have turned tail, vulgarly speaking, five minutes before, he couldn't turn tail now; he must simply wait there with his consciousness charged to the brim. Quickly enough moreover that issue was closed from without; in the course of three minutes more Miss Theale's servant had returned.

He hesitated; then he said: "I'm thinking, I dare say, of Miss Theale's. How does your aunt reconcile his interest in her ?" "With his interest in me?" "With her own interest in you," Densher said while she reflected. "If that interest Mrs. Lowder's takes the form of Lord Mark, hasn't he rather to look out for the forms he takes?"