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The Ambassadors

BOOK Ninth
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Waymarsh will take her round while Chad takes Jim--and I shall be, I assure you delighted for both of them.

Sarah will have had what she requires--she will have paid her tribute to the ideal; and he will have done about the same.

In Paris it's in the air--so what can one do less?
If there's a point that, beyond any other, Sarah wants to make, it's that she didn't come out to be narrow.

We shall feel at least that." "Oh," she sighed, "the quantity we seem likely to 'feel'! But what becomes, in these conditions, of the girl ?" "Of Mamie--if we're all provided?
Ah for that," said Strether, "you can trust Chad." "To be, you mean, all right to her ?" "To pay her every attention as soon as he has polished off Jim.

He wants what Jim can give him--and what Jim really won't--though he has had it all, and more than all, from me.


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