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It's too beautiful," Strether continued; "I find I don't get over that it's always a fresh joy. But it's a fresh joy too," he added, "that well, what do you think? Little Bilham also goes. But he of course goes for Mamie." Miss Gostrey wondered. "'For' her? Do you mean they're already engaged?"
It's my affair I must do it alone. I've only my fantastic need of making my dose stiff." Little Bilham wondered. "What do you call your dose?" "Why what I have to swallow. I want my conditions unmitigated." He had spoken in the tone of talk for talk's sake, and yet with an obscure truth lurking in the loose folds; a circumstance presently not without its effect on his young friend.
She turned with a start at his voice; preoccupied with him though she might be, she was just a scrap disappointed. "Oh I thought you were Mr. Bilham!"
If he had said to him on the instant what was uppermost he would have said: "HAVE I passed? for of course I know one has to pass here." Little Bilham would have reassured him, have told him that he exaggerated, and have adduced happily enough the argument of little Bilham's own very presence; which, in truth, he could see, was as easy a one as Gloriani's own or as Chad's.
He's wonderful," she repeated. "Michelangelesque!" little Bilham completed her meaning. "He IS a success. Moses, on the ceiling, brought down to the floor; overwhelming, colossal, but somehow portable." "Certainly, if you mean by portable," she returned, "looking so well in one's carriage.
"I don't want to frighten you, but I think that likely. However," little Bilham continued, "if I'm of the least use to you to hold on by !" "You're not of the least!" and Strether laid an appreciative hand on him to say it. "No one's of the least." With which, to mark how gaily he could take it, he patted his companion's knee. "I must meet my fate alone, and I SHALL oh you'll see!
"Oh but I don't know that I want to be, at your age, too different from you!" "Ah prepare while you're about it," said Strether, "to be more amusing." Little Bilham continued to think, but at last had a smile. "Well, you ARE amusing to ME." "Impayable, as you say, no doubt. But what am I to myself?"
And then, while Strether was aware of fearing closer quarters, though giving himself again to the harmonies, "Well," little Bilham went on, "it IS at the worst rather good, you know. If you like it, you feel it, this way, that shows you're not in the least out But you always know things," he handsomely added, "immediately."
And when after this little Bilham, submissive and responsive, but with an eye to the consolation nearest, easily threw off some "Better late than never!" all he got in return for it was a sharp "Better early than late!" This note indeed the next thing overflowed for Strether into a quiet stream of demonstration that as soon as he had let himself go he felt as the real relief.
He has his ideas about what can be done for her." "Well, it's very strange!" Strether presently remarked with a sighing sense of fulness. "Very strange indeed. That's just the beauty of it. Isn't it very much the kind of beauty you had in mind," little Bilham went on, "when you were so wonderful and so inspiring to me the other day?
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