[The Ambassadors by Henry James]@TWC D-Link bookThe Ambassadors BOOK Fifth 28/85
I don't know how it happens; I don't do it on purpose; it seems to be my doom--as if I were always one of their habits: it's wonderful! I dare say moreover," she pursued with an interested gravity, "that I do, that we all do here, run too much to mere eye.
But how can it be helped? We're all looking at each other--and in the light of Paris one sees what things resemble.
That's what the light of Paris seems always to show.
It's the fault of the light of Paris--dear old light!" "Dear old Paris!" little Bilham echoed. "Everything, every one shows," Miss Barrace went on. "But for what they really are ?" Strether asked. "Oh I like your Boston 'reallys'! But sometimes--yes." "Dear old Paris then!" Strether resignedly sighed while for a moment they looked at each other.
Then he broke out: "Does Madame de Vionnet do that? I mean really show for what she is ?" Her answer was prompt.
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