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He already knew that the sculptor admired Madame de Vionnet; but did this admiration also represent an attachment of which the innocence was discussable? He was moving verily in a strange air and on ground not of the firmest. He looked hard for an instant at Miss Barrace, but she had already gone on. "All right with Mr. Newsome?
"That will make it all the pleasanter if it so happens that we DO meet," Madame de Vionnet had further observed in reference to Mrs. Pocock's mention of her initiated state; and she had immediately added that, after all, her hostess couldn't be in need with the good offices of Mr. Strether so close at hand.
Pocock, on this, with an arrest of speech with a certain breathlessness, as he immediately fancied, on the score of a freedom for which she wasn't quite prepared. It had flared up for all the harm he had intended by it because, confoundedly, he didn't want any more to be afraid about her than he wanted to be afraid about Madame de Vionnet.
He felt as if somehow Madame de Vionnet WAS. The great question meanwhile was what Chad thought of his sister; which was naturally ushered in by that of Sarah's apprehension of Chad. THAT they could talk of, and with a freedom purchased by their discretion in other senses. The difficulty however was that they were reduced as yet to conjecture.
Strether felt awkward. "Ah with pleasure she's so remarkably attractive." The mother's eagerness with which Madame de Vionnet jumped at this was to come back to him later as beautiful in its grace. "The dear thing DID please you?" Then as he met it with the largest "Oh!" of enthusiasm: "She's perfect. She's my joy." "Well, I'm sure that if one were near her and saw more of her she'd be mine."
"Never more handsomely of any woman. But it's just that tone !" "That tone," said Chad, "that has fetched her? I dare say; but I've no quarrel with you about it. And no more has Madame de Vionnet. Don't you know by this time how she likes you?" "Oh!" and Strether had, with his groan, a real pang of melancholy. "For all I've done for her!" "Ah you've done a great deal."
I take a great interest!" he further declared; and in proof of it, the next moment, he had gone with her down to her carriage. "The difficulty is," Strether said to Madame de Vionnet a couple of days later, "that I can't surprise them into the smallest sign of his not being the same old Chad they've been for the last three years glowering at across the sea.
What was clearer still was that the handsome young man at her side was Chad Newsome, and what was clearest of all was that she was therefore Mademoiselle de Vionnet, that she was unmistakeably pretty bright gentle shy happy wonderful and that Chad now, with a consummate calculation of effect, was about to present her to his old friend's vision.
No, if Madame de Vionnet compassed THAT, compassed the ravishment of the Pococks, Madame de Vionnet would be prodigious. It would be a beautiful plan if it succeeded, and it all came to the question of Sarah's being really bribeable.
"Help you by thinking he should NOT marry?" "Not marry at all events Mamie." "And who then?" "Ah," Strether returned, "that I'm not obliged to say. But Madame de Vionnet I suggest when he can. "Oh!" said little Bilham with some sharpness. "Oh precisely! But he needn't marry at all I'm at any rate not obliged to provide for it. Whereas in your case I rather feel that I AM."
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