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But the real, the fundamental reason was quite different. What a difference was there in a 'newcomer' whom Odette had asked them to invite, although she herself had met him only a few times, and on whom they were building great hopes the Comte de Forcheville! Verdurin levelled at people whom he knew.
Furthermore, it suggests reasons of personal convenience, rather than any definite repudiation, any moral impossibility. When he saw Odette thus make him a sign that the insinuation was false, he realised that it was quite possibly true. "I have told you, I never did; you know quite well," she added, seeming angry and uncomfortable. "Yes, I know all that; but are you quite sure?
One night he dreamed that he was going away for a year; leaning from the window of the train towards a young man on the platform who wept as he bade him farewell, he was seeking to persuade this young man to come away also. The train began to move; he awoke in alarm, and remembered that he was not going away, that he would see Odette that evening, and next day and almost every day.
I had my doubts and I looked up the Scotland Yard warning which I received a couple of days ago. She's Odette Rider, and she's wanted on a charge of murder." "Got it first time," said Tarling, dropping wearily into a chair. "Do you mind if I smoke?" "Not a bit," said the doctor cheerfully. "I suppose you're taking her with you?" Tarling nodded.
Swann could not without anxiety ask himself what Odette would mean to him in the years that were to come.
He would say to himself that one has, as often as not, only to take the exact counterpart of the reputation created by the world in order to judge a person fairly, when with such a character he contrasted that of Odette, so good, so simple, so enthusiastic in the pursuit of ideals, so nearly incapable of not telling the truth that, when he had once begged her, so that they might dine together alone, to write to Mme.
"We put her in this private ward, because we thought it might be necessary to operate," said the matron and opened the door. Tarling walked in. Facing him was the foot of the bed, and in that bed lay a girl whose eyes met his. He stopped dead as though he were shot For "Miss Stevens" was Odette Rider! For a time neither spoke.
Suppose the doctors were wrong and Thornton Lyne was murdered at an earlier hour? Suppose Odette Rider was in reality a cold-blooded . He growled away the thought. He heard the church clock strike the hour of two and waited impatiently for the quarter to chime he had heard every quarter since he had retired to bed. But he did not hear that quarter.
Perhaps, if I don't look inside, I shall be lacking in delicacy towards Odette, since in this way alone I can rid myself of a suspicion which is, perhaps, a calumny on her, which must, in any case, cause her suffering, and which can never possibly be set at rest, once the letter is posted." He left the post-office and went home, but he had kept the last letter in his pocket.
He would gaze at her for hours on end, trying to recapture the charm which he had once seen in her and could not find again. And yet the knowledge that, within this new and strange chrysalis, it was still Odette that lurked, still the same volatile temperament, artful and evasive, was enough to keep Swann seeking, with as much passion as ever, to captivate her.
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