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And he sends me splendours; he knows all the best places he has found them for himself; he's wonderful." "He hasn't told them to me," her friend smiled, "he has a life of his own." But Strether had swung back to the consciousness that for himself after all it never would have done. Waymarsh hadn't Mrs.
"There's no doubt I want you to come down on me and squash me." Waymarsh helped himself to the next course, which, however proving not the dish he had just noted as supplied to the English ladies, had the effect of causing his imagination temporarily to wander. But it presently broke out at a softer spot. "Have they got a handsome place up there?"
Strether had already been there three times first with Miss Gostrey, then with Chad, then with Chad again and with Waymarsh and little Bilham, all of whom he had himself sagaciously entertained; and his pleasure was deep now on learning that Madame de Vionnet hadn't yet been initiated.
HE'S very pleasant and curious too," Strether added "though he's not from Boston." Waymarsh looked already rather sick of him. "Where is he from?" Strether thought. "I don't know that, either. But he's 'notoriously, as he put it himself, not from Boston." "Well," Waymarsh moralised from dry depths, "every one can't notoriously be from Boston. Why," he continued, "is he curious?"
"Why it's such a matter as that even if I positively wanted I shouldn't be able to keep it from you." Waymarsh gloomily gazed. "What does that mean then but that your trip is just FOR her?" "For Mrs. Newsome? Oh it certainly is, as I say. Very much." "Then why do you also say it's for me?" Strether, in impatience, violently played with his latch. "It's simple enough. It's for both of you."
"I told her," said Waymarsh, "that it would have been a bright idea if she had only carried it out before." Strether pronounced it so bright as to be almost dazzling. "But why HASn't she carried it out before? She has seen me every day she had only to name her hour. I've been waiting and waiting." "Well, I told her you had. And she has been waiting too."
He repeated to Chad what he had been saying in the court to Waymarsh; how there was no doubt whatever that his sister would find the latter a kindred spirit, no doubt of the alliance, based on an exchange of views, that the pair would successfully strike up.
Waymarsh will take her round while Chad takes Jim and I shall be, I assure you delighted for both of them. Sarah will have had what she requires she will have paid her tribute to the ideal; and he will have done about the same. In Paris it's in the air so what can one do less? If there's a point that, beyond any other, Sarah wants to make, it's that she didn't come out to be narrow.
Waymarsh had smoked of old, smoked hugely; but Waymarsh did nothing now, and that gave him his advantage over people who took things up lightly just when others had laid them heavily down. Strether had never smoked, and he felt as if he flaunted at his friend that this had been only because of a reason.
It was interesting to him to feel that he was in the presence of new measures, other standards, a different scale of relations, and that evidently here were a happy pair who didn't think of things at all as he and Waymarsh thought. Nothing was less to have been calculated in the business than that it should now be for him as if he and Waymarsh were comparatively quite at one.
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