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Assingham, as a bland critic, had never doubted her being graceful, she had never seen her put so much of it into being what might have been called assertive.
But they haven't if that's what you want to know." "You've only believed me contented then because you've believed me stupid?" Mrs. Assingham had a free smile, now, for the length of this stride, dissimulated though it might be in a graceful little frisk.
"Ah, who can say what passes between people in such a relation? The only thing one can be sure of is that he was generous." And Mrs. Assingham conclusively smiled. "He doubtless knew as much as was right for himself." "As much, that is, as was right for her." "Yes then as was right for her.
It was where he had walked in the afternoon sun with Fanny Assingham, and the sense of that other hour, the sense of the suggestive woman herself, was before him again as, in spite of all the previous degustation we have hinted at, it had not yet been.
Fanny had then arrived in sight of them at the same moment as someone else she didn't know, someone who knew Mrs. Assingham and also knew Sir John. Charlotte had left it to her friend's competence to throw the two others immediately together and to find a way for entertaining her in closer quarters.
The awaited migration to Fawns was to take place on the morrow, and it was known meanwhile to Mrs. Assingham that their party of four were to dine that night, at the American Embassy, with another and a larger party; so that the elder woman had a sense of surprise on receiving from the younger, under date of six o'clock, a telegram requesting her immediate attendance.
Assingham had, after a single attentive arrest, led her with a certain earnestness, this vision of the critical was much more sharpened than blurred. Fanny had taken it from her: yes, she was there with Amerigo alone, Maggie having come with them and then, within ten minutes, changed her mind, repented and departed.
"He has been splendid." "'Splendid'? Then what more do you want?" "Ah, what you see!" said Maggie. "Not to be afraid." It made her guest again hang fire. "Not to be afraid really to speak?" "Not to be afraid NOT to speak." Mrs. Assingham considered further. "You can't even to Charlotte?"
What do you believe, what do you KNOW?" Oh, if she went by faces her visitor's sudden whiteness, at this, might have carried her far! Fanny Assingham turned pale for it, but there was something in such an appearance, in the look it put into the eyes, that renewed Maggie's conviction of what this companion had been expecting.
The way it comes to me is that she'll triumph." She said this with so sudden a prophetic flare that it fairly cheered her husband. "Ah then, we must back her!" "No we mustn't touch her. We mayn't touch any of them. We must keep our hands off; we must go on tiptoe. We must simply watch and wait. And meanwhile," said Mrs. Assingham, "we must bear it as we can.
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