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"Ah, ah, ah!" and little Bilham fell back on his cushions. It reminded our friend of Miss Barrace, and he felt again the brush of his sense of moving in a maze of mystic closed allusions. Yet he kept hold of his thread. "Of course I understand really; only the general transformation makes me occasionally gasp.
She has in the first place," said Miss Barrace, swinging a little her tortoise-shell, "that of doing her part. Her part is to help YOU." It came out as nothing had come yet; links were missing and connexions unnamed, but it was suddenly as if they were at the heart of their subject.
In the way of general amiability, hospitality and welcome. She's under arms," Chad laughed again; "she's prepared." Strether took it in; then as if an echo of Miss Barrace were in the air: "She's wonderful." "You don't begin to know HOW wonderful!"
Madame de Vionnet, having meanwhile come in, was at present close to them, and Miss Barrace hereupon, instead of risking a rejoinder, became again with a look that measured her from top to toe all mere long-handled appreciative tortoise-shell.
This girl is the most beautiful, one excepted, whom I ever saw or knew; and I like her the more that she bears some features of Elizabeth of Dunbar. But she, I mean Catharine Glover, is contracted, and presently to be wedded, to Henry the armourer, a craftsman unequalled for skill, and a man at arms yet unmatched in the barrace. To follow out this intrigue would do a good fellow too much wrong."
These things were enhanced for Miss Barrace by a succession of excellent cigarettes acknowledged, acclaimed, as a part of the wonderful supply left behind him by Chad in an almost equal absorption of which Strether found himself blindly, almost wildly pushing forward.
It was so much so much; and she treated it, poor lady, as so little. He grew conscious, as he was now apt to do, of a strange smile, and the next moment he found himself talking like Miss Barrace. "She has struck me from the first as wonderful. I've been thinking too moreover that, after all, she would probably have represented even for yourself something rather new and rather good."
Miss Barrace looked at him a moment. "She has too much at stake." Then less gravely: "Mine, luckily for me, holds out." "Luckily for me too" Strether came back to that. "My own isn't so firm, MY appetite for responsibility isn't so sharp, as that I haven't felt the very principle of this occasion to be 'the more the merrier. If we ARE so merry it's because Chad has understood so well."
She's wonderful, wonderful, as Miss Barrace says; and he is, in his way, too; however, as a mere man, he may sometimes rebel and not feel that he finds his account in it. She has simply given him an immense moral lift, and what that can explain is prodigious. That's why I speak of it as a situation. It IS one, if there ever was."
But indeed the whole thing was present. "How much she must care!" "Ah there it is. She does care. But it isn't, is it," Miss Barrace considerately added, "as if you had ever had any doubt of that?" Strether seemed suddenly to like to feel that he really never had. "Why of course it's the whole point." "Voila!" Miss Barrace smiled. "It's why one came out," Strether went on.
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