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He may remember that he has never seen her do anything else." "Well," said Adam Verver, "what kind of a warning will he have found in that? To what catastrophe will he have observed such a disposition in her to lead?" "Just to THIS one!" With which she struck him as rising straighter and clearer before him than she had done even yet. "Our little question itself?"
Verver which was serious, as well it might be! would save them." "I see." The Colonel inclined himself. "And save HIM." "It comes to the same thing!" "Then save Maggie." "That comes," said Mrs. Assingham, "to something a little different. For Maggie has done the most." He wondered. "What do you call the most?" "Well, she did it originally she began the vicious circle.
Verver, noticed the graduated offspring, noticed the fat, ear-ringed aunts and the glossy, cockneyfied, familiar uncles, inimitable of accent and assumption, and of an attitude of cruder intention than that of the head of the firm; noticed the place in short, noticed the treasure produced, noticed everything, as from the habit of a person finding her account at any time, according to a wisdom well learned of life, in almost any "funny" impression.
Little by little, thus, from month to month, the Prince was learning what his wife's father had been brought up to; and now it could be checked off he had been brought, up to the romantic view of principini. Who would have thought it, and where would it all stop? The only fear somewhat sharp for Mr. Verver was a certain fear of disappointing him for strangeness.
Then she should know she had done all. Charlotte looked at her hard, as if to compare her face with her note of resentment; and Maggie, feeling this, met it with the signs of an impression that might pass for the impression of defeat. "I want really to possess him," said Mrs. Verver. "I happen also to feel that he's worth it." Maggie rose as if to receive her.
He looked perplexed. "But if she has so absolutely failed, what then had she done?" "She has suffered she has done that." And the Princess added: "She has loved and she has lost." Mr. Verver, however, still wondered. "But how many times." Maggie hesitated, but it cleared up. "Once is enough. Enough, that is, for one to be kind to her."
These were direct inquiries, they quite rang out, in the soft, wooded air; so that Adam Verver, for a minute, appeared to meet them with reflection. She saw reflection, however, quickly enough show him what to do with them. "Do you know, Mag, what you make me wish when you talk that way?"
Verver had taken in charge, Maggie paused on the threshold of the gallery through which she had been about to pass, faltered there for the very impression of his face as it met her from an opposite door. Her voice, high and clear and a little hard, reached her husband and her step-daughter while she thus placed beyond doubt her cheerful submission to duty.
The discussion of the American world, the comparison of notes, impressions and adventures, had been all at hand, as a ground of meeting for Mrs. Verver and her husband's son-in-law, from the hour of the reunion of the two couples.
"We're not, all the same, committed to anything stupid. If we ought to be grander, as Fanny thinks, we CAN be grander. There's nothing to prevent." "Is it a strict moral obligation?" Adam Verver inquired. "No it's for the amusement." "For whose? For Fanny's own?" "For everyone's though I dare say Fanny's would be a large part."
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