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Updated: May 2, 2025
"Oh, isn't what I may have meddled 'for' so far as it can be proved I did meddle open to interpretation; by which I mean to Mr. Verver's and Maggie's? Mayn't they see my motive, in the light of that appreciation, as the wish to be decidedly more friendly to the others than to the victimised father and daughter?" She positively liked to keep it up.
Verver's superiority to any such mistake she gave, characteristically, something like a toss of her head as marked a tribute to that lady's general grace, in all the conditions, as the personage referred to doubtless had ever received. "Ah, only Maggie!" With which the Colonel gave a short low gurgle. But it found his wife again prepared. "No not only Maggie.
It is not even incredible that she may have discovered the gleam of a comfort that was to broaden in the conceivable effect on the Prince's spirit, on his nerves, on his finer irritability, of some of the very airs and aspects, the light graces themselves, of Mrs. Verver's too perfect competence.
Verver's not embracing the proposal they had appeared for a day or two resignedly to entertain; as soon as she had betrayed her curiosity as to the line the other pair, so left to themselves, might take, a desire to avoid the appearance of at all too directly prying had become marked in her.
Assingham could easily remember, was the most accomplished and obliging of public functionaries, whom every one knew and who knew every one who had from the first, in particular, lent himself freely, and for the love of art and history, to becoming one of the steadier lights of Mr. Verver's adventurous path.
And of course I shall feel them quainter still," she rather ruefully subjoined, "before they've done with me!" This might be, but it wasn't what most stood in the Colonel's way. "You believe so in Mr. Verver's innocence after two years of Charlotte?" She stared. "But the whole point is just that two years of Charlotte are what he hasn't really or what you may call undividedly had."
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