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He already knew that the sculptor admired Madame de Vionnet; but did this admiration also represent an attachment of which the innocence was discussable? He was moving verily in a strange air and on ground not of the firmest. He looked hard for an instant at Miss Barrace, but she had already gone on. "All right with Mr. Newsome?
Newsome is the best friend we have in the world and your staying away meant that you didn't care if he had been good to us. It hurt me!
"Oh," he said with more emphasis than spirit, "I shan't describe HIM nor narrate his exploits." "Lord, what abysses! And the late Mr. Newsome then?" "Well, what about him?" "Was he like the grandfather?" "No he was on the other side of the house. And he was different." Miss Gostrey kept it up. "Better?" Her friend for a moment hung fire. "No."
Newsome that she had, at whatever cost to her more strenuous view, conformed, in the matter of preparing Chad, wholly to his restrictions, he now looked up at the fine continuous balcony with a safe sense that if the case had been bungled the mistake was at least his property.
You may, you see, at any rate," she pursued, "have nobody else. Madame de Vionnet may very well be going off, mayn't she? and Mr. Newsome by the same stroke: unless indeed you've had an assurance from them to the contrary. So that if your idea's to stay for them" it was her duty to suggest it "you may be left in the lurch.
She wondered; then gravely, even exquisitely, as if to make the oddity also fit: "His own niece?" "Oh you must yourself find a name for the relation. His brother-in-law's sister. Mrs. Jim's sister-in-law." It seemed to have on Miss Gostrey a certain hardening effect. "And who in the world's Mrs. Jim?" "Chad's sister who was Sarah Newsome. She's married didn't I mention it? to Jim Pocock."
"Well, I DID have," Strether murmured, while he felt both how they had possessed him and how they had now lost their authority. He couldn't have traced the sequence to the end, but it was all because of Mrs. Pocock. Mrs. Pocock might be because of Mrs. Newsome, but that was still to be proved.
He went on disliking, in the light of Jim's commonness, to talk to him about that lady; yet just before the cab pulled up he knew the extent of his desire for the real word from Woollett. "Has Mrs. Newsome at all given way ?" "'Given way'?" Jim echoed it with the practical derision of his sense of a long past.
"Are you capable of the very great kindness of going to relieve Newsome, for a few minutes, of the rather crushing responsibility of Madame Gloriani, while I say a word, if he'll allow me, to Mr. Strether, of whom I've a question to ask? Our host ought to talk a bit to those other ladies, and I'll come back in a minute to your rescue."
Strether assisted at his distance. "'For him'? For Chad ?" "For Chad, in a manner, naturally, always. But in particular to-night for Mr. Pocock." And then as her friend still stared: "Yes, it IS of a bravery But that's what she has: her high sense of duty." It was more than sufficiently before them. "When Mr. Newsome has his hands so embarrassed with his sister "
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