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"Oh Chad!" it was that rare youth he should have enjoyed being "like." The virtuous attachment would be all there before him; the virtuous attachment would be in the very act of appeal for his blessing; Jeanne de Vionnet, this charming creature, would be exquisitely, intensely now the object of it.
He had been afraid of Chad and of Maria and of Madame de Vionnet; he had been most of all afraid of Waymarsh, in whose presence, so far as they had mixed together in the light of the town, he had never without somehow paying for it aired either his vocabulary or his accent. He usually paid for it by meeting immediately afterwards Waymarsh's eye.
I like," Strether laughed with a slight harshness, "the way you leave things!" But she insisted kindly, gently, as if it wasn't so bad. "Be perfectly honest. Tell her all." "All?" he oddly echoed. "Tell her the simple truth," Madame de Vionnet again pleaded. "But what is the simple truth? The simple truth is exactly what I'm trying to discover."
But don't wait for my next absence, for I shan't make another," Madame de Vionnet declared, "while Mrs. Pocock's here." "That vow needn't keep you long, fortunately," Sarah observed with reasserted suavity. "I shall be at present but a short time in Paris. I have my plans for other countries. I meet a number of charming friends" and her voice seemed to caress that description of these persons.
"Only for a month or two time to go and come. Madame de Vionnet," Chad smiled, "would look after you in the interval." "To go back by yourself, I remaining here?" Again for an instant their eyes had the question out; after which Strether said: "Grotesque!" "But I want to see Mother," Chad presently returned. "Remember how long it is since I've seen Mother."
It was no test there when indeed WAS it a test there? for Monsieur de Vionnet had been a brute. She had lived for years apart from him which was of course always a horrid position; but Miss Gostrey's impression of the matter had been that she could scarce have made a better thing of it had she done it on purpose to show she was amiable.
She came out with her impression of Madame de Vionnet of whom she had "heard so much"; she came out with her impression of Jeanne, whom she had been "dying to see": she brought it out with a blandness by which her auditor was really stirred that she had been with Sarah early that very afternoon, and after dreadful delays caused by all sorts of things, mainly, eternally, by the purchase of clothes clothes that unfortunately wouldn't be themselves eternal to call in the Rue de Bellechasse.
Let us hasten to add, however, that what he at first made out on this occasion he also at first kept to himself. He only asked what in particular Madame de Vionnet had come for, and as to this his companion was ready. "She wants tidings of Mr. Newsome, whom she appears not to have seen for some days." "Then she hasn't been away with him again?"
Pocock and Madame de Vionnet should become acquainted. Strether was still more sharply struck, hereupon, with Chad's lucidity. "Why, isn't that exactly to get a sight of the company I keep what she has come out for?" "Yes I'm afraid it is," Strether unguardedly replied. Chad's quick rejoinder lighted his precipitation. "Why do you say you're afraid?"
"Oh but I'm not a little foreign girl; I'm just as English as I can be," Jeanne de Vionnet had said to him as soon as, in the petit salon, he sank, shyly enough on his own side, into the place near her vacated by Madame Gloriani at his approach.
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