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Updated: June 6, 2025
There was no one in the world, they all agreed, half as ugly and untidy and delightful as Streffy; no one who combined such outspoken selfishness with such imperturbable good humour; no one who knew so well how to make you believe he was being charming to you when it was you who were being charming to him.
This flash of insight disconcerted her, and she said, a little irritably: "What should you do then, if you married? Hush, Streffy! I forbid you to shout like that all the gondolas are stopping to look!" "How can I help it?" He rocked backward and forward in his chair. "'If you marry, she says: 'Streffy, what have you decided to do if you suddenly become a raving maniac?" "I said no such thing.
Till the last moment they had hoped for a reprieve; but the accommodating Streffy had been unable to put the villa at their disposal for a longer time, since he had had the luck to let it for a thumping price to some beastly bouncers who insisted on taking possession at the date agreed on.
Nick was not surprised to learn that it was becoming the fashion, that summer, to pop down to Venice and take a look at the Lansings. Streffy had set the example, and Streffy's example was always followed. And then Susy's marriage was still a subject of sympathetic speculation. People knew the story of the wedding cheques, and were interested in seeing how long they could be made to last.
She leaned over, and a tall gentleman in shabby clothes, glancing up at her as he jumped out, waved a mouldy Panama in joyful greeting. "Streffy!" she exclaimed as joyfully; and she was half-way down the stairs when he ran up them followed by his luggage-laden boatman. "It's all right, I suppose?
She flushed up like a child. "You're stupid, Streffy. You forget that Nick and I don't need alibis. We've got rid of all that hyprocrisy by agreeing that each will give the other a hand up when either of us wants a change. We've not married to spy and lie, and nag each other; we've formed a partnership for our mutual advantage." "I see; that's capital.
"It took a good deal of argument to convince you that we could face the ridicule of Como!" "Well, I should have preferred something in a lower key; at least I thought I should till we got here. Now I see that this place is idiotic unless one is perfectly happy; and that then it's-as good as any other." She sighed out a blissful assent. "And I must say that Streffy has done things to a turn.
He embraced his wife, greeted Susy affectionately, and distributed cordial hand-grasps to the two men. "Hullo," he exclaimed, suddenly noticing a pearl and coral trinket hanging from Clarissa's neck. "Who's been giving my daughter jewellery, I'd like to know!" "Oh, Streffy did just think, father!
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