[The Ambassadors by Henry James]@TWC D-Link bookThe Ambassadors BOOK Second 6/84
These made two exactly, even with the individual varieties. Here, on the other hand, apart from the personal and the sexual range--which might be greater or less--a series of strong stamps had been applied, as it were, from without; stamps that his observation played with as, before a glass case on a table, it might have passed from medal to medal and from copper to gold.
It befell that in the drama precisely there was a bad woman in a yellow frock who made a pleasant weak good-looking young man in perpetual evening dress do the most dreadful things.
Strether felt himself on the whole not afraid of the yellow frock, but he was vaguely anxious over a certain kindness into which he found himself drifting for its victim.
He hadn't come out, he reminded himself, to be too kind, or indeed to be kind at all, to Chadwick Newsome.
Would Chad also be in perpetual evening dress? He somehow rather hoped it--it seemed so to add to THIS young man's general amenability; though he wondered too if, to fight him with his own weapons, he himself (a thought almost startling) would have likewise to be.
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