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"Yes I may very well have confessed it, for so it did seem to me." But he guarded himself with his dim, his easier smile. "What do you want to put on me now?" "Only that we used to wonder that we were wondering then if our life wasn't perhaps a little selfish." This also for a time, much at his leisure, Adam Verver retrospectively fixed. "Because Fanny Assingham thought so?"
Assingham, precisely, represented, embodied his pledges was, in her pleasant person, the force that had set them successively in motion. She had MADE his marriage, quite as truly as his papal ancestor had made his family though he could scarce see what she had made it for unless because she too was perversely romantic.
She might hand things back with every tender precaution, with acknowledgments and assurances, but she owed it to them, in any case, and it to all Mrs. Assingham had done for her, not to get rid of them without having well unwrapped and turned them over.
His recognition of the new terms as different from the old, what was that, practically, but a confession that something had happened, and a perception that, interested in the situation she had helped to create, Mrs. Assingham would be, by so much as this, concerned in its inevitable development? It amounted to an intimation, off his guard, that he should be thankful for some one to turn to.
One had to make up one's mind, as quietly as possible, by what one could judge. And I judge, as I say, that Charlotte felt she could face it. For which she struck me at the time as for so proud a creature almost touchingly grateful. The thing I should never forgive her for would be her forgetting to whom it is her thanks have remained most due." "That is to Mrs. Assingham?"
"Not a little Charlotte?" "A little?" the Princess echoed. "To know anything would be, for her, to know enough." "And she doesn't know anything?" "If she did," Maggie answered, "Amerigo would." "And that's just it that he doesn't?" "That's just it," said the Princess profoundly. On which Mrs. Assingham reflected. "Then how is Charlotte so held?" "Just by that." "By her ignorance?"
Assingham, still darkly contemplative, denied this with a headshake. "She won't 'put' it anywhere. She won't do with it anything anyone else would. She'll take it all herself." "You mean she'll make it out her own fault?" "Yes she'll find means, somehow, to arrive at that." "Ah then," the Colonel dutifully declared, "she's indeed a little brick!"
"It's a success," her friend ingeniously developed, "with which you've simply not interfered." And as if to show that she spoke without levity Mrs. Assingham went further. "He has made it a success for THEM !" "Ah, there you are!" Maggie responsively mused. "Yes," she said the next moment, "that's why Amerigo stays." "Let alone it's why Charlotte goes." that Mrs.
"To the extent yes of not having in the least looked for her. Any more," said Mrs. Assingham, "than I judge Maggie to have done." The Prince thought; then as if glad to be able to say something very natural and true: "No quite right. Maggie hasn't looked for her. But I'm sure," he added, "she'll be delighted to see her." "That, certainly" and his hostess spoke with a different shade of gravity.
Aren't they, for that matter, intimately together now?" "'Intimately' ? How do I know?" But Fanny kept it up. "Aren't you and your husband in spite of everything?" Maggie's eyes still further, if possible, dilated. "It remains to be seen!" "If you're not then, where's your faith?" "In my husband ?" Mrs. Assingham but for an instant hesitated. "In your father. It all comes back to that.
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