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"Mr. Newsome will do the same, and that's not" she laughed out now "to be thought of." Strether had no laugh; he had only a quiet comparatively placid look that might have shown him as proof against ridicule. "Strange, isn't it?"
Strether resumed for a minute his walk. "She's really perfectly lovely, you know. Far prettier than any girl I've seen over here yet." "That's precisely on what I perhaps most build." And she mused a moment in her friend's way. "I should positively like to take her in hand!" He humoured the fancy, though indeed finally to deprecate it. "Oh but don't, in your zeal, go over to her!
"It's he, I gather, who has learnt to know his Paris, and to love it, better than any one ever before in so short a time; so that between him and your brother, when it comes to the point, how can you possibly want for good guidance? The great thing, Mr. Strether will show you," she smiled, "is just to let one's self go."
"To judge if I'm the sort of man a woman CAN ?" "Precisely," she exclaimed "you wonderful gentleman! I do judge I HAVE judged. A woman can't. You're safe with every right to be. You'd be much happier if you'd only believe it." Strether was silent a little; then he found himself speaking with a cynicism of confidence of which even at the moment the sources were strange to him. "I try to believe it.
The three strolled and stared and gossiped, or at least the two did; the case really yielding for their comrade, if analysed, but the element of stricken silence. This element indeed affected Strether as charged with audible rumblings, but he was conscious of the care of taking it explicitly as a sign of pleasant peace.
She hasn't BEEN round yet to see our place; and I took upon myself to say that I was sure you'd be glad to have her. The thing's therefore, you see, to keep right here till she comes." The announcement was sociably, even though, after Waymarsh's wont, somewhat solemnly made; but Strether quickly felt other things in it than these light features.
And you hear as often?" Again Strether paused. "As often as I deserve." "Mother writes," said Chad, "a lovely letter." Strether, before the closed porte-cochere, fixed him a moment. "It's more, my boy, than YOU do! But our suppositions don't matter," he added, "if you're actually not entangled." Chad's pride seemed none the less a little touched. "I never WAS that let me insist.
What he could stand was thus, in these moments, in the balance for Strether, who reflected, as he became fully aware of it, that he must properly brace himself. He wanted fully to appear to stand all he might; and there was a certain command of the situation for him in this very wish not to look too much at sea.
Yet he was answered still better when she said in a moment: "Will Mr. Newsome introduce his sister ?" "To Madame de Vionnet?" Strether spoke the name at last. "I shall be greatly surprised if he doesn't." She seemed to gaze at the possibility. "You mean you've thought of it and you're prepared." "I've thought of it and I'm prepared." It was to her visitor now that she applied her consideration.
They presently addressed his companion, the brilliant strangers; she rose to speak to them, and Strether noted how the escorted lady, though mature and by no means beautiful, had more of the bold high look, the range of expensive reference, that he had, as might have been said, made his plans for.
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