[The Ambassadors by Henry James]@TWC D-Link bookThe Ambassadors BOOK Eighth 16/77
And no more has Madame de Vionnet.
Don't you know by this time how she likes you ?" "Oh!"-- and Strether had, with his groan, a real pang of melancholy. "For all I've done for her!" "Ah you've done a great deal." Chad's urbanity fairly shamed him, and he was at this moment absolutely impatient to see the face Sarah Pocock would present to a sort of thing, as he synthetically phrased it to himself, with no adequate forecast of which, despite his admonitions, she would certainly arrive. "I've done THIS!" "Well, this is all right.
She likes," Chad comfortably remarked, "to be liked." It gave his companion a moment's thought.
"And she's sure Mrs.Pocock WILL-- ?" "No, I say that for you.
She likes your liking her; it's so much, as it were," Chad laughed, "to the good.
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