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"Oh a charming place; full of beautiful and valuable things. I never saw such a place" and Strether's thought went back to it. "For a little artist-man !" He could in fact scarce express it. But his companion, who appeared now to have a view, insisted. "Well?" "Well, life can hold nothing better. Besides, they're things of which he's in charge." "So that he does doorkeeper for your precious pair?
"That charming artist-man Michael Quarrington." "Has he left England?" Magda's throat felt suddenly parched. Then with an effort she went on: "You're surely not going to put the entire steamship's passenger list down to me, Marraine?" "Only those names for which I happen to know you're responsible." "You don't know about Saint Mi about Mr. Quarrington. It's mere guesswork on your part."
Her tact had to reckon with the Atlantic Ocean, the General Post-Office and the extravagant curve of the globe. Chad had one day offered tea at the Boulevard Malesherbes to a chosen few, a group again including the unobscured Miss Barrace; and Strether had on coming out walked away with the acquaintance whom in his letters to Mrs. Newsome he always spoke of as the little artist-man.
Probably the hen who has reared a duckling and sees it sail off into the water experiences, alongside her natural apprehension and astonishment, a somewhat similar pride in the startling proclivities evinced by her nurseling. "That nice artist-man is in love with Magda," crowed Lady Arabella contentedly. Gillian smiled. "Do you think so?" "I do.
"His account of himself is that he's 'only a little artist-man. That seemed to me perfectly to describe him. But he's yet in the phase of study; this, you know, is the great art-school to pass a certain number of years in which he came over. And he's a great friend of Chad's, and occupying Chad's rooms just now because they're so pleasant.
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