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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.
The name America was sometimes applied to it not altogether inappropriately, since it was Amerigo's voyage which definitely settled that really new lands had been discovered by the western route; and when it was further ascertained that this new land was joined, not to Asia, but to another continent as large as itself, the two new lands were distinguished as North and South America.
Verver and his daughter, to see their reputation for a decent friendliness, through any momentary danger; might be trusted even to carry off their absence for Amerigo, for Amerigo's possible funny Italian anxiety; Amerigo always being, as the Princess was well aware, conveniently amenable to this friend's explanations, beguilements, reassurances, and perhaps in fact rather more than less dependent on them as his new life since that was his own name for it opened out.
So it had been settled, Maggie said to Mrs. Assingham, and she was to dispense with Amerigo's company.
It was, says an old English writer, "abrode in every mannes handes." Amerigo's voyages led him chiefly to Central and South America and he became convinced that South America was a continent. So soon, what with the voyages of Vespucci and the voyages of other great men, it became at last quite certain that there was a vast continent beyond the Atlantic ocean.
She went in silence to where her friend never, in intention, visibly, so much her friend as at that moment had braced herself to so amazing an energy, and there, under Amerigo's eyes, she picked up the shining pieces.
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.
Several of these moments stood out beyond the others, and those she could feel again most, count again like the firm pearls on a string, had belonged more particularly to the lapse of time before dinner dinner which had been so late, quite at nine o'clock, that evening, thanks to the final lateness of Amerigo's own advent.
She was there to keep him quiet it was Amerigo's own description of her influence; and it would only have needed a more visible disposition to unrest in him to make the account perfectly fit. Fanny herself limited indeed, she minimised, her office; you didn't need a jailor, she contended, for a domesticated lamb tied up with pink ribbon.
So it had been settled, Maggie said to Mrs. Assingham, and she was to dispense with Amerigo's company.
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