That was all; whatever it was it was everything.

Strether had never seen the thing so done before--it was perhaps a speciality of Paris.

If one had been present at the process one might little by little have mastered the result; but he was face to face, as matters stood, with the finished business.

It had freely been noted for him that he might be received as a dog among skittles, but that was on the basis of the old quantity.

He had originally thought of lines and tones as things to be taken, but these possibilities had now quite melted away.