The element of the unnamed and untouched became, between us, greater than any other.
Let us be vulgar and have some fun, let us invite the President.
I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known.
How can I retrace to-day the strange steps of my obsession?
They had built strong and piled high – based as it was on such appearances – their conviction that, thanks to her native complacencies of so many sorts, she would always, quite to the end and through and through, take them as nobly sparing her. Amerigo.
I reflected that I had already, with him, hurt myself beyond repair.
These three words from her were in a flash like the glitter of a drawn blade, the jostle of the cup that my hand for weeks and weeks had held high and full to the brim and that now, even before speaking, I felt overflow in a deluge.
The American girl isn’t ANY girl; she’s a remarkable specimen in a remarkable species.
She lost herself in infinite dismay when she thought of the magnitude of his deception.
It was nothing, but it was somehow everything – it was that something for each of them had happened.
That had been the real beginning – the beginning of everything else.
I think I could die without its being noticed.
Because she has seen for herself. I’ve told her nothing. She’s a person who does see.
His long looks were the thing in the world she could never have enough of. What she felt was that, whatever might happen, she must keep them, must make them most completely her possession.
I’m sure you’ve an excellent spirit; but don’t try to bear more things than you need.
There was a sort of spell in the sense that nobody in the world knew where she was. It was the first time in her life that this had happened; somebody, everybody appeared to have known before, at every instant of it, where she was; so that she was now suddenly able to put it to herself that that hadn’t been a life.
Life might prove difficult – was evidently going to; but meanwhile they had each other, and that was everything.
He had gone in late to see her, but evening hadn’t settled and she was presented to him in that long fresh light of waning April days which affects us often with a sadness sharper than the greyest hours of autumn.
It was as if her doom so floated her on that she couldn’t stop.
She likes to do everything for herself and has no belief in any one’s power to help her.