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She had answered Mrs. Assingham quite adequately; she had not spoiled it by a reason a scrap larger than the smallest that would serve, and she had, above all, thrown off, for his stretched but covered attention, an image that flashed like a mirror played at the face of the sun.
Assingham gave it up. "How couldn't I, how couldn't I?" Then, with a fine freedom, she went all her way. "How CAN'T I, how can't I?" It fixed afresh Maggie's wide eyes on her. "I see I see. Well, it's beautiful for you to be able to. And of course," she added, "you wanted to help Charlotte." "Yes" Fanny considered it "I wanted to help Charlotte.
He wanted first to make sure of the whole of the subject that was unrolling itself before him; after which the innumerable facts he had collected would find their use. He knew what he was about -trust him at last therefore to make, and to some effect, his big noise. And Mrs. Assingham had repeated that he knew what he was about.
She asked herself, with concentration, while her back was still presented, what would be the very ideal of that method; after which, the next instant, it had all come to her and she had turned round upon him for the application. "Fanny Assingham broke it knowing it had a crack and that it would go if she used sufficient force.
Fanny Assingham was there to explain away of this she was duly conscious; for that at least had been true up to now. In the light, however, of Maggie's demonstration the quantity, even without her taking as yet a more exact measure, might well seem larger than ever.
Then she saw that Mrs. Assingham was remaining a little and as for the appreciation of her enjoyment; upon which they stood looking at each other across the cleared prospect until the elder woman, only vaguely expressive and tentative now, came nearer.
Verver which was serious, as well it might be! would save them." "I see." The Colonel inclined himself. "And save HIM." "It comes to the same thing!" "Then save Maggie." "That comes," said Mrs. Assingham, "to something a little different. For Maggie has done the most." He wondered. "What do you call the most?" "Well, she did it originally she began the vicious circle.
Assingham, who made out by it that nothing more pathetic could be imagined than the refuge and disguise her agitation had instinctively asked of the arts of dress, multiplied to extravagance, almost to incoherence.
"Any one, I mean, but Fanny Assingham." "I should have supposed you had had by this time particular means of learning. I don't see," she said, "why you ask me." Then, after an instant and only after an instant, as she saw he made out what she meant; and it gave her, all strangely enough, the still further light that Charlotte, for herself, knew as little as he had known.
But what he evidently saw appeared to come over him, at the same time, as too much for him, so that he fell back suddenly to ground where she was not awaiting him. "The difficulty is, and will always be, that I don't understand them. I didn't at first, but I thought I should learn to. That was what I hoped, and it appeared then that Fanny Assingham might help me."
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