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Updated: May 20, 2025
His postponements, however, made her wonder wonder if the article referred to were anything bad. And she explained that she meant improper or ridiculous or wrong. But Strether, so far as that went, could satisfy her. "Unmentionable? Oh no, we constantly talk of it; we are quite familiar and brazen about it.
"Well then, at this time, if by any possibility you can arrange it so, you ought to remain at home, and devote yourself heart and soul to the task I have to propose to you. I hate postponements. Ride straight at the foe, and do not canter up and down till you tire the horses! that is my principle, and not in battle only. Take the moral to heart!
But when the passions of men have taken full possession of their souls, words of concession and attempts at accommodation are nothing more than postponements or lies.
There was no sound but the faint swash of the coming tide, the noises of the reed-birds in the marshes, and the occasional leap of a fish; and it seemed to my overstrained ear as if every footstep of my own must be heard for miles. However, I could have no more postponements, and the thing must be tried now or never.
She was as pale as a sheet. 'You must do your best to welcome him this time, my dear Betty, her mother said gently. 'But but I 'You are a woman now, added her mother severely, 'and these postponements must come to an end. 'But my father oh, I am sure he will not allow this! I am not ready. If he could only wait a year longer if he could only wait a few months longer!
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