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He looked at Sarah in a manner that he thought she might take as engaging, and he made, under Madame de Vionnet's protection, as it were, his first personal point. "What has really happened has been that, all the while, I've done what I came out for." Yet it only at first gave Madame de Vionnet a chance immediately to take him up.
They were among the matters that marked Madame de Vionnet's apartment as something quite different from Miss Gostrey's little museum of bargains and from Chad's lovely home; he recognised it as founded much more on old accumulations that had possibly from time to time shrunken than on any contemporary method of acquisition or form of curiosity.
Strether almost wondered at such a pace was he going if some divination of the influence of either party were what determined Madame de Vionnet's abstention.
It had been a performance, Madame de Vionnet's manner, and though it had to that degree faltered toward the end, as through her ceasing to believe in it, as if she had asked herself, or Chad had found a moment surreptitiously to ask her, what after all was the use, a performance it had none the less quite handsomely remained, with the final fact about it that it was on the whole easier to keep up than to abandon.
This was beginning well for a first day in Paris; and the thing might be amusing yet. But Madame de Vionnet's earnestness was meanwhile beautiful. "You may think me indiscreet, but I've SUCH a desire my Jeanne shall know an American girl of the really delightful kind. You see I throw myself for it on your charity."
And Strether, with his head back and his eyes on the ceiling, seemed to lose himself in the vision of it. His companion attended deeply. "You state it much better than I could." "Oh you see it doesn't concern you." Little Bilham considered. "I thought you said just now that it doesn't concern you either." "Well, it doesn't a bit as Madame de Vionnet's affair.
Newsome herself was as much of one. Little Bilham verily had testified that they came out, the ladies of the type, in close quarters; but it was just in these quarters now comparatively close that he felt Madame de Vionnet's common humanity. She did come out, and certainly to his relief, but she came out as the usual thing.
His design was evidently to assert a claim to Madame de Vionnet's undivided countenance, and he made it good in the course of a minute led her away with a trick of three words; a trick played with a social art of which Strether, looking after them as the four, whose backs were now all turned, moved off, felt himself no master.
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