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"I only glance at the danger," Strether paternally said, "because when I hear you wail to go back I seem to see you open up such possibilities of folly." Waymarsh took it silent a little like a large snubbed child "What are you going to do with me?" It was the very question Strether himself had put to Miss Gostrey, and he wondered if he had sounded like that.
I feel don't YOU? that I want to stop little Bilham; he's so exactly right as he is." She continued to talk to Waymarsh. "He's too delightful. If he'll only not spoil it! But they always WILL; they always do; they always have." "I don't think Waymarsh knows," Strether said after a moment, "quite what it's open to Bilham to spoil."
But Waymarsh hadn't yet, it appeared, come down, and our friend finally went forth without sight of him. At four o'clock that afternoon he had still not seen him, but he was then, as to make up for this, engaged in talk about him with Miss Gostrey.
She must teach him at all events, before she went, to order breakfast as breakfast was ordered in Europe, and she must especially sustain him in the problem of ordering for Waymarsh.
"Why she's the dearest and cleverest of all the clever and dear." "Well, you run her pretty close, Countess," Waymarsh returned with spirit; "though there's no doubt she's pretty well up in things. She knows her way round Europe. Above all there's no doubt she does love Strether."
Jim hugely enhances. Jim was made to enhance. And then Mr. Waymarsh. It's the crowning touch it supplies the colour. He's positively separated." "And she herself unfortunately isn't that supplies the colour too." Miss Gostrey was all there. But somehow ! "Is HE in love?" Strether looked at her a long time; then looked all about the room; then came a little nearer.
He could take refuge but in asking her what she had done with Waymarsh, though it must be added that he felt himself a little on the way to a clue after she had answered that this personage was, in the other room, engaged in conversation with Madame de Vionnet. He stared a moment at the image of such a conjunction; then, for Miss Barrace's benefit, he wondered. "Is she too then under the charm ?"
I'll be at home whenever it best suits you. There I can't say fairer." Strether thought a moment while Waymarsh and Mrs. Pocock affected him as standing attentive. "I did lately call on you. Last week while Chad was out of town." "Yes and I was away, as it happened, too. You choose your moments well.
He had himself as yet had nothing they would sit down somewhere together; and when after a few steps and a turn into the Boulevard they had, for their greater privacy, sat down among twenty others, our friend saw in his companion's move a fear of the advent of Waymarsh.
There had already been things in respect to which he knew himself tempted by this perversity. If Waymarsh thought them bad he should at least have his reason for his discomfort; so Strether showed them as worse. Still, he was now, in his way, sincerely perplexed.
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