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"He has understood amazingly," said Miss Barrace. "It's wonderful Strether anticipated for her. "It's wonderful!" she, to meet it, intensified; so that, face to face over it, they largely and recklessly laughed. But she presently added: "Oh I see the principle. If one didn't one would be lost. But when once one has got hold of it " "It's as simple as twice two!
Strether had almost a groan. But Miss Barrace had meanwhile perceived relief. "Why not put your question straight to the person who can answer it best?" "No," said little Bilham; "don't put any question; wait, rather it will be much more fun to judge for yourself. He has come to take you to her."
"It's quite the least" Strether filled it out "that she should take his sister's husband? Certainly quite the least. So she has taken him." "She has taken him." It was all Miss Barrace had meant. Still it remained enough. "It must be funny." "Oh it IS funny." That of course essentially went with it. But it brought them back.
There are moments when it strikes one that you haven't any other." "Any moral," little Bilham explained, watching serenely, across the garden, the several femmes du monde. "But Miss Barrace has a moral distinction," he kindly continued; speaking as if for Strether's benefit not less than for her own. "HAVE you?" Strether, scarce knowing what he was about, asked of her almost eagerly.
"He wants to 'treat' you?" Strether almost gasped at all he himself hadn't thought of. He had a sense of admiration. "Oh he's much more in the real tradition than I. Yes," he mused, "it's the sacred rage." "The sacred rage, exactly!" and Miss Barrace, who hadn't before heard this term applied, recognised its bearing with a clap of her gemmed hands. "Now I do know why he's not banal.
He was in the trap still more than his companion and, unlike his companion, not making the best of it; which was precisely what doubtless gave him his admirable sombre glow. Little did Miss Barrace know that what was behind it was his grave estimate of her own laxity. The general assumption with which our two friends had arrived had been that of finding Mr.
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.
This last resource was offered him, for that matter, in the very form of his next clear perception the vision of a prompt meeting, in the doorway of the room, between little Bilham and brilliant Miss Barrace, who was entering as Bilham withdrew.
And if any one of knightly degree shall say that this our act is wrongfully done, I, Patrick Charteris of Kinfauns, knight, will justify this cartel in knightly weapons, within the barrace; or, if any one of meaner birth shall deny what is here said, he shall be met with by a citizen of the Fair City of Perth, according to his degree. And so God and St. John protect the Fair City!"
He sank his problem, he talked of Waymarsh and Miss Barrace, of little Bilham and the set over the river, with whom he had again had tea, and he was easy, for convenience, about Chad and Madame de Vionnet and Jeanne.
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