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I've HAD my jump. I had it when I first heard." "Then if you knew why didn't you tell me as soon as you came in?" "Because I had it from her as a thing not yet to be spoken of." Miss Gostrey wondered. "From Madame de Vionnet herself?" "As a probability not quite a certainty: a good cause in which Chad has been working. So I've waited." "You need wait no longer," she returned.
It was on the detail of this quantity and what could the fact be but mystifying?-that Bilham and Miss Barrace threw so little light. So there they were. When Miss Gostrey arrived, at the end of a week, she made him a sign; he went immediately to see her, and it wasn't till then that he could again close his grasp on the idea of a corrective.
It came to him in the current of thought, as things so oddly did come, that HE had never risen with the lark to attend a brilliant woman to the Marche aux Fleurs; this could be fastened on him in connexion neither with Miss Gostrey nor with Madame de Vionnet; the practice of getting up early for adventures could indeed in no manner be fastened on him.
He went once more to the garden; he looked into the public room, found Miss Gostrey writing letters and backed out; he roamed, fidgeted and wasted time; but he was to have his more intimate session with his friend before the evening closed. It was late not till Strether had spent an hour upstairs with him that this subject consented to betake himself to doubtful rest.
Still, she could in her own large grasp of the real condone it. "Is Mamie a great parti?" "Oh the greatest we have our prettiest brightest girl." Miss Gostrey seemed to fix the poor child. "I know what they CAN be. And with money?" "Not perhaps with a great deal of that but with so much of everything else that we don't miss it.
What she demanded of me yesterday, you'll remember, was the engagement then and there to make him take up this vow." "Well then," Miss Gostrey enquired, "was the purpose of your visit to her only to decline?" "No; it was to ask, odd as that may seem to you, for another delay." "Ah that's weak!" "Precisely!" She had spoken with impatience, but, so far as that at least, he knew where he was.
That the young man had been visible there just in this position expressed somehow for Strether that, as Maria Gostrey had reported, he had been absent and silent; and our friend drew breath on each landing the lift, at that hour, having ceased to work before the implications of the fact.
"Do you mean in political colour as they say here in thought?" "No; I mean the cover's green of the most lovely shade." "And with Mrs. Newsome's name on it too?" He waited a little. "Oh as for that you must judge if she peeps out. She's behind the whole thing; but she's of a delicacy and a discretion !" Miss Gostrey took it all. "I'm sure. She WOULD be. I don't underrate her.
You'll break down soon enough, but you'll meanwhile have had your moments. Il faut en avoir. I always like to see you while you last. And I'll tell you who WILL last." "Waymarsh?" he had already taken her up. She laughed out as at the alarm of it. "He'll resist even Miss Gostrey: so grand is it not to understand. He's wonderful." "He is indeed," Strether conceded.
Strether was in fact recurrently shameless in the presence of the tailors, though it was just over the heads of the tailors that his countryman most loftily looked. This gave Miss Gostrey a grasped opportunity to back up Waymarsh at his expense.
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