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Updated: June 12, 2025
But Soames was speaking: "The asparagus is very poor. Bosinney, glass of sherry with your sweet? June, you're drinking nothing!" June said: "You know I never do. Wine's such horrid stuff!" An apple charlotte came upon a silver dish, and smilingly Irene said: "The azaleas are so wonderful this year!" To this Bosinney murmured: "Wonderful! The scent's extraordinary!"
Then on the terrace the buzz broke out once more, and Dartie thought: 'Ah! he's a poor, hungry-looking devil, that Bosinney! and again he pressed himself against Irene. The movement deserved a better success. She rose, and they all followed her. The man of the world was more than ever determined to see what she was made of. Along the terrace he kept close at her elbow.
The attitude of the confident and friendly husband was gone. To preserve property his wife he had assumed it, to preserve property of another kind he lost it now. "Ah!" he had said to Bosinney when he could speak, "and I suppose you're perfectly contented with yourself. But I may as well tell you that you've altogether mistaken your man!"
It ought to have a copper roof, but I've made it green slate. As it is, including metal work, it'll cost you eight thousand five hundred." "Eight thousand five hundred?" said Soames. "Why, I gave you an outside limit of eight!" "Can't be done for a penny less," replied Bosinney coolly. "You must take it or leave it!"
The attitude of the confident and friendly husband was gone. To preserve property his wife he had assumed it, to preserve property of another kind he lost it now. "Ah!" he had said to Bosinney when he could speak, "and I suppose you're perfectly contented with yourself. But I may as well tell you that you've altogether mistaken your man!"
He had such a private distrust and even dislike of the word 'original' that he felt he had not really given himself away by this remark. Bosinney seemed pleased. It was the sort of thing that would please a fellow like that! And his success encouraged Soames. "It's a big place," he said.
Somebody tapped Soames on the back, and spoke to him; and in the exchange of those platitudes over his shoulder, he missed her answer, and took a resolution. "We're just going in," he said to Bosinney; "you'd better come back to dinner with us."
Bosinney walked right out into the thoroughfare a vast muffled blackness, where a man could not see six paces before him; where, all around, voices or whistles mocked the sense of direction; and sudden shapes came rolling slow upon them; and now and then a light showed like a dim island in an infinite dark sea.
On hearing from Bosinney that his limit of twelve thousand pounds would be exceeded by something like four hundred, he had grown white with anger. His original estimate of the cost of the house completed had been ten thousand pounds, and he had often blamed himself severely for allowing himself to be led into repeated excesses.
After writing to Bosinney in the terms that have already been chronicled, Soames had dismissed the cost of the house from his mind. He believed that he had made the matter of the final cost so very plain that the possibility of its being again exceeded had really never entered his head.
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