[The Awkward Age by Henry James]@TWC D-Link bookThe Awkward Age BOOK EIGHTH 67/84
When did we ever 'walk' in YOUR time save as a distinct part of the effect of our good things? Please return to Nanda," she said to Vanderbank, "and tell her I particularly wish her to come in for this delightful evening's end." "She's joining us of herself now," the Duchess noted, "and so's Mr. Cashmore and so's Tishy--VOYEZ!--who has kept on--( bless her little bare back!)--no one she oughtn't to keep.
As nobody else will now arrive it would be quite cosey if she locked the door." "But what on earth, my dear Jane," Mrs.Brook plaintively wondered, "are you proposing we should do ?" Mrs.Brook, in her apprehension, had looked expressively at their friends, but the eye of the Duchess wandered no further than Harold and Lady Fanny.
"It would perhaps serve to keep that pair a little longer from escaping together." Mrs.Brook took a pause no greater.
"But wouldn't it be, as regards another pair, locking the stable-door after--what do you call it? Don't Petherton and Aggie appear already to have escaped together? Mitchy, man, where in the world's your wife ?" "I quite grant you," said the Duchess gaily, "that my niece is wherever Petherton is.
This I'm sure of, for THERE'S a friendship, if you please, that has not been interrupted.
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