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She had settled in Paris, brought up her daughter, steered her boat. It was no very pleasant boat especially there to be in; but Marie de Vionnet would have headed straight. She would have friends, certainly and very good ones. There she was at all events and it was very interesting. Her knowing Mr. Chad didn't in the least prove she hadn't friends; what it proved was what good ones HE had.
Besides," he added, "I don't think he really wants Chad back. If Chad doesn't come " "He'll have" Madame de Vionnet quite apprehended "more of the free hand?" "Well, Chad's the bigger man." "So he'll work now, en dessous, to keep him quiet?" "No he won't 'work' at all, and he won't do anything en dessous. He's very decent and won't be a traitor in the camp.
"Well, because I feel a certain responsibility. It's my testimony, I imagine, that will have been at the bottom of Mrs. Pocock's curiosity. My letters, as I've supposed you to understand from the beginning, have spoken freely. I've certainly said my little say about Madame de Vionnet." All that, for Chad, was beautifully obvious. "Yes, but you've only spoken handsomely."
Newsome, of whom we think so much and with whom, precisely, Mrs. Pocock has given herself the opportunity to take up threads. What a pleasure for you both!" Madame de Vionnet, with her eyes on Sarah, bravely continued. Mrs. Pocock met her handsomely, but Strether quickly saw she meant to accept no version of her movements or plans from any other lips.
It was true that the aid rendered by Madame de Vionnet was questionable; it was a sign that, for all one might confess to with her, and for all she might complain of not enjoying, she could still insidiously show how much of the material of conversation had accumulated between them. "The real truth is, you know, that you sacrifice one without mercy to dear old Maria.
It somehow made both Strether and Madame de Vionnet laugh out, though at the very moment he caught in Sarah's eyes, as glancing at the speaker, a vague but unmistakeable "You too?" It made Waymarsh in fact look consciously over her head. Madame de Vionnet meanwhile, however, made her point in her own way.
Well, Strether put it otherwise, "She's sounding the note of home which is the very best thing she can do." "The best for Madame de Vionnet?" "The best for home itself. The natural one; the right one." "Right," Maria asked, "when it fails?" Strether had a pause. "The difficulty's Jim. Jim's the note of home." She debated. "Ah surely not the note of Mrs. Newsome." But he had it all.
Miss Gostrey is clearly visible, and Madame de Vionnet and little Bilham, or whoever it may be; the face of Strether himself is never turned to the reader.
Madame de Vionnet greeted her as "Duchesse" and was greeted in turn, while talk started in French, as "Ma toute-belle"; little facts that had their due, their vivid interest for Strether.
"Well, he won't let you see her, you know," Madame de Vionnet sympathetically threw in. "He never lets me old friends as we are: I mean as I am with Maria. He reserves her for his best hours; keeps her consummately to himself; only gives us others the crumbs of the feast."
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