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He put the card into his waistcoat pocket, keeping his own meanwhile in evidence; and as he leaned against the door-post he met with the smile of a straying thought what the expanse before the hotel offered to his view. It was positively droll to him that he should already have Maria Gostrey, whoever she was of which he hadn't really the least idea in a place of safe keeping.
They next made out, however, that an open door had instantly received him, and they then recognised him as engulfed in the establishment of a jeweller, behind whose glittering front he was lost to view. The fact had somehow the note of a demonstration, and it left each of the others to show a face almost of fear. But Miss Gostrey broke into a laugh. "What's the matter with him?"
"You assist her to expiate which is rather hard when you've yourself not sinned." "It's she who hasn't sinned," Strether replied. "I've sinned the most." "Ah," Miss Gostrey cynically laughed, "what a picture of HER! Have you robbed the widow and the orphan?" "I've sinned enough," said Strether. "Enough for whom? Enough for what?" "Well, to be where I am." "Thank you!"
"Do you mean to introduce her to Miss Gostrey?" As to this Strether was ready. "No." "But haven't you told me they know about her?" "I think I've told you your mother knows." "And won't she have told Sally?" "That's one of the things I want to see." "And if you find she HAS ?" "Will I then, you mean, bring them together?"
Miss Gostrey had understood enough to see, essentially, what had happened, and yet had beautifully dreamed that she was herself faultless. There were doubtless depths in her, but she was all right; Strether would see if she wasn't. Her situation too had evidently cleared itself up; there would have been all that was possible a judicial separation.
It was by little Bilham's amazing serenity that he had at first been affected, but he had inevitably, in his circumspection, felt it as the trail of the serpent, the corruption, as he might conveniently have said, of Europe; whereas the promptness with which it came up for Miss Gostrey but as a special little form of the oldest thing they knew justified it at once to his own vision as well.
It was history, to begin with, that Jeanne's mother had been three-and-twenty years before, at Geneva, schoolmate and good girlfriend to Maria Gostrey, who had moreover enjoyed since then, though interruptedly and above all with a long recent drop, other glimpses of her.
I've known you a few hours, and I've known HIM all my life; so that if the ease I thus take with you about him isn't magnificent" and the thought of it held him a moment "why it's rather base." "It's magnificent!" said Miss Gostrey to make an end of it. "And you should hear," she added, "the ease I take and I above all intend to take with Mr. Waymarsh." Strether thought.
When he had done this at last it was with the remark that, surprised as Miss Gostrey might, like himself, at first be, she would probably agree with him on reflexion that such an account of the matter did after all fit the confirmed appearances.
In the scenic episodes, the colloquies that Strether holds, for example, with his sympathetic friend Maria Gostrey, another turn appears in the author's procedure. Throughout these clear-cut dialogues Strether's point of view still reigns; the only eyes in the matter are still his, there is no sight of the man himself as his companion sees him.
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