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Updated: May 14, 2025
"I came out to find myself in presence of new facts facts that have kept striking me as less and less met by our old reasons. The matter's perfectly simple. New reasons reasons as new as the facts themselves are wanted; and of this our friends at Woollett Chad's and mine were at the earliest moment definitely notified. If any are producible Mrs.
Instead of that his sermon had been one to which scarcely any exception could be taken. But the bishop's chaplain, who had watched at intervals of praying, came to the conclusion that the rector of St. Chad's was a good deal cleverer than the majority of youngish clergymen who endeavor to qualify for prosecution.
Chad's eyes grew big with wonder and he ran forward to see the rickety little steamboat approach and, with wide eyes, devoured it, as it wheezed and labored up-stream past them watched the thundering stern-wheel threshing the water into a wake of foam far behind it and flashing its blades, water-dripping in the sun watched it till it puffed and wheezed and labored on out of sight.
And the gallant gentleman bowed to Chad. "Will you pardon me, Miss Margaret? My mother is calling me." "You must have keen ears," said Margaret; "your mother is upstairs." "Yes; but she wants me. Everybody wants me, but " he bowed again with an imperturbable smile and went his way. Margaret looked demurely into Chad's eager eyes. "And how is the spirit of '76?" "The spirit of '76 is unchanged."
She had flushed with pleasure, that had been six months ago, when it first occurred to her that to be the wife of a distinguished clergyman, who was also a scholar, was the highest vocation to which a woman could aspire. She had told her father of this testimony to the ability of the rector of St. Chad's pride had been in her voice and eyes.
He had passed no more crowded hour in Chad's society than the one just ended; he had talked with Miss Barrace, who had reproached him with not having come to see her, and he had above all hit on a happy thought for causing Waymarsh's tension to relax.
But you're better now; you're safe I see that for myself; you've got all your good. You're looking, this morning, as fit as a flea." Strether, at his glass, finished dressing; consulting that witness moreover on this last opinion. WAS he looking preternaturally fit? There was something in it perhaps for Chad's wonderful eye, but he had felt himself for hours rather in pieces.
There was youth in that, there was youth in the surrender to the balcony, there was youth for Strether at this moment in everything but his own business; and Chad's thus pronounced association with youth had given the next instant an extraordinary quick lift to the issue.
It was Georgie now who blackened and spread the blot on Chad's good name, and it was Georgie to whom Chad fast learning the ways of gentlemen promptly sent a pompous challenge, that the difficulty might be settled "in any way the gentleman saw fit."
The life of the occupant struck him of a sudden as more charged with possession even than Chad's or than Miss Barrace's; wide as his glimpse had lately become of the empire of "things," what was before him still enlarged it; the lust of the eyes and the pride of life had indeed thus their temple. It was the innermost nook of the shrine as brown as a pirate's cave.
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