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He wanted quite too intensely to get away." Mr. Verver considered. "Well, hasn't he been away?" "Yes, just long enough to see how he likes it. Besides," said Charlotte, "he may not be able to join in the rosy view of our case that you impute to her. It can't in the least have appeared to him hitherto a matter of course that you should give his wife a bouncing stepmother."
Verver had not, on his side either, taken up the opportunity. It is the latter's relation to such aspects, however, that now most concerns us, and the bearing of his pleased view of this absence of friction upon Amerigo's character as a representative precious object.
The struggle with it none too pleasant hasn't been for me, as you may imagine, in itself charming; I've felt in it at times, if I must tell you all, too great and too strange, an ugliness. Yet I believe it may succeed." She had risen, with this, Mrs. Verver, and had moved, for the emphasis of it, a few steps away; while Maggie, motionless at first, but sat and looked at her.
She had made, for the four days, no direct appeal to the latter personage, but the Prince was accidental witness of her taking a fresh start at the moment the company were about to scatter for the last night of their stay. There had been, at this climax, the usual preparatory talk about hours and combinations, in the midst of which poor Fanny gently approached Mrs. Verver.
Only acquaintances who, in all sorts of ways, make use of her, and distant relations who are so afraid she'll make use of THEM that they seldom let her look at them." Mr. Verver was struck and, as usual, to some purpose. "If we get her here to improve us don't we too then make use of her?" It pulled the Princess up, however, but an instant. "We're old, old friends we do her good too.
"She's in Brittany, at a little bathing-place, with some people I don't know. She's always with people, poor dear she rather has to be; even when, as is sometimes the case; they're people she doesn't immensely like." "Well, I guess she likes US," said Adam Verver. "Yes fortunately she likes us.
She barely hesitated. "Charlotte and the Prince think we are which is so much gained. Mr. Verver believes in our intelligence but he doesn't matter." "And Maggie? Doesn't SHE know ?" "That we see before our noses?" Yes, this indeed took longer. "Oh, so far as she may guess it she'll give no sign. So it comes to the same thing." He raised his eyebrows. "Comes to our not being able to help her?"
There might, as they were, have been many things. Charlotte, in her way, is extraordinary." He was almost simultaneous. "Extraordinary!" "She observes the forms," said Fanny Assingham. He hesitated. "With the Prince ?" "FOR the Prince. And with the others," she went on. "With Mr. Verver wonderfully. But above all with Maggie.
I never saw her do anything but laugh at her poverty. Her life has been harder than anyone knows." It was moreover as if, thus unprecedentedly positive, his child had an effect upon him that Mr. Verver really felt as a new thing. "Why then haven't you told me about her before?" "Well, haven't we always known ?" "I should have thought," he submitted, "that we had already pretty well sized her up."
Adam Verver knew, by this time, knew thoroughly; no man in Europe or in America, he privately believed, was less capable, in such estimates, of vulgar mistakes.
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