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It was with Waymarsh he should have shared it, and he was now accordingly taking from him something that was his due. He looked repeatedly at his watch, and when he had done so for the fifth time Miss Gostrey took him up. "You're doing something that you think not right." It so touched the place that he quite changed colour and his laugh grew almost awkward. "Am I enjoying it as much as THAT?"
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?"
By how long a space on the plane of manners or even of morals, moreover, he felt still more sharply after Maria Gostrey had come back to him and with a gay decisive "So now !" led him forth into the world.
"How much, poor Mr. Strether, you seem to have to see about! But you can't say," she gaily declared, "that I don't do what I can to help you. Mr. Waymarsh is placed. I've left him in the house with Miss Gostrey." "The way," little Bilham exclaimed, "Mr. Strether gets the ladies to work for him! He's just preparing to draw in another; to pounce don't you see him? on Madame de Vionnet."
It's her romance and it seems to me better on the whole than mine. To have it in Paris too," he explained "on this classic ground, in this charged infectious air, with so sudden an intensity: well, it's more than she expected. She has had in short to recognise the breaking out for her of a real affinity and with everything to enhance the drama." Miss Gostrey followed. "Jim for instance?" "Jim.
"By which you mean you don't budge?" "I don't budge." "You've cabled?" "No I've made Chad do it." "That you decline to come?" "That HE declines. We had it out this morning and I brought him round. He had come in, before I was down, to tell me he was ready ready, I mean, to return. And he went off, after ten minutes with me, to say he wouldn't." Miss Gostrey followed with intensity.
He had been to Notre Dame with Waymarsh, he had been there with Miss Gostrey, he had been there with Chad Newsome, and had found the place, even in company, such a refuge from the obsession of his problem that, with renewed pressure from that source, he had not unnaturally recurred to a remedy meeting the case, for the moment, so indirectly, no doubt, but so relievingly.
He had turned awkwardly, responsively red, he knew, at her mention of Maria Gostrey; Sarah Pocock's presence the particular quality of it had made this inevitable; and then he had grown still redder in proportion as he hated to have shown anything at all.
Waymarsh at last turned over with a groan. "Well, I won't marry you!" "Neither, when it comes to that !" But the visitor had already laughed and escaped. He had told Miss Gostrey he should probably take, for departure with Waymarsh, some afternoon train, and it thereupon in the morning appeared that this lady had made her own plan for an earlier one.
I simply said to him: 'I want to stay, and the only way for me to do so is for you to. That I wanted to stay seemed to interest him, and he acted on that." Miss Gostrey turned it over. "He wants then himself to stay." "He half wants it. That is he half wants to go. My original appeal has to that extent worked in him. Nevertheless," Strether pursued, "he won't go.
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