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共 128 题- THE WINGS OF THE DOVE
- BY HENRY JAMES
- VOLUME II
- NEW YORK
- CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
- Copyright, 1902 and 1909 by Charles Scribner's Sons
- BOOK SIXTH
- THE WINGS OF THE DOVE
- II
- She hesitated. "I don't say every one."
- Kate was for a moment checked. "What good does what--?"
- She put it differently. "Don't mind her leading _you_."
- He wondered. "Prevent her loving us?"
- He continued to stare. "But how does she know--?"
- Yet still he didn't take it. "Then I confess she's beyond me."
- He couldn't piece it together. "But won't Mrs. Lowder have spoken?"
- The young man brooded. "But in a sense to take some explaining."
- III
- IV
- Well, she had it ready. "You can console her."
- Kate on her side did this justice. "No--that's the beauty of her."
- Yes, but she waved it away. "Don't guess. Only do as I tell you."
- Well, it was all she wanted. "Then don't miss a chance."
- She looked at that a little graver. "If what isn't a question--?"
- He waited again an instant. "Then you swear to it?"
- He wondered--as if it struck him. "What would you say?"
- He considered of this. "How much do you abuse me to her?"
- Again he thought. "It doesn't seem to me I ought to mind her attitude."
- He required then a last injunction. "I must simply go it blind?"
- BOOK SEVENTH
- It left Susie a little at sea. "Then what do you want more?"
- Mrs. Lowder took it rightly. "For _her_."
- Mrs. Stringham at this came straight. "Oh you know!"
- Susie faced this new duty. "To Milly, you mean--if she asks?"
- Mrs. Lowder wondered. "Are you sure?"
- Her companion sadly assented. "We're leaving everything out."
- II
- He had a cheerful blankness. "To the end of what?"
- He thought a moment. "You'll be four women together then?"
- Sir Luke wondered. "You mean they're lovers?"
- Sir Luke took an interest. "What's the matter with him?"
- Sir Luke kept it up. "Is he all right?"
- She was now on her feet. "I think I know what you require of me."
- III
- IV
- Again she hesitated. "To 'try' in return for your trying?"
- His stare became a smile. "Are you very, very sure?"
- He hesitated. "Mrs. Lowder's?"
- BOOK EIGHTH
- II
- He wondered. "By telling her so?"
- Yes, she had bethought herself. "We have extraordinary conversations."
- Kate continued to smile. "You _are_ in love with her, you know."
- Densher laughed out. "It isn't _his_ merit that he has failed."
- She appeared to wonder. "And pray what is it I don't--?"
- Oh at this his head went up. "I, my dear, have told none!"
- III
- Densher gave it his thought. "Wouldn't it be rather _she_ who must?"
- He stared. "All alone?"
- Densher waited. "You think it then possible she may _offer_ marriage?"
- BOOK NINTH
- The explosion lighted her face. "You'll do your book here?"
- He felt himself smiling through a mist. "You simply must!"
- He cast about, but he made up his mind. "I'm not doing a book."
- II
- III
- He wondered. "You thank God--?"
- He continued to wonder. "_Is_ she so quiet?"
- It made him again hesitate. "Does she utterly hate me?"
- Once more he thought. "She must be magnificent."
- It made his companion stare. "Should you like to see her?"
- Mrs. Stringham continued to think. "It's too late."
- Densher took it all in. "But he isn't any comfort to you!"
- She considered. "Something--yes. She likes him."
- She took it, but she bore up. "It doesn't matter what I believe."
- Oh so had Mrs. Stringham. "He came for exasperation."
- He saw, but he wondered. "She kept from him--what she felt?"
- Densher again gravely assented. "Magnificent!"
- Densher met it indirectly. "Where has he been since October?"
- He hesitated. "And does she depend, naturally, upon news of _me?_"
- Her reserve continued. "It's you who must judge."
- He took his time again to judge. "Do _you_ believe it?"
- IV
- BOOK TENTH
- Kate's look at this was large. "Don't you _know?_"
- Kate shook her head. "She sent yesterday to know."
- She didn't think anything. "Lord Mark's?"
- Kate wondered. "What rest?"
- Kate gave a quick glare. "But he doesn't know it!"
- Densher wondered. "Possible for whom?"
- She hesitated. "Couldn't you write?"
- His companion waited. "Wouldn't _that_ then have been your chance?"
- Kate looked for her moment at a loss. "To convince 'me'?"
- She looked at him longer. "Everything?"
- He hesitated. "Hadn't we better wait--?"
- Kate wondered. "Didn't he tell you?"
- Kate stared. "Then how do you know?"
- He waited a moment. "That I had meant awfully well."
- Densher put down his cup and turned away. "You must ask Sir Luke."
- He raised his eyes to her. "Is _that_ peace?"
- II
- III
- Now at least he could ask. "Without Miss Croy?"
- He showed a faint smile. "Thanks. If I can."
- IV
- She wondered. "But not a letter--?"
- But she continued without heeding. "You hate what you're doing."
- Kate thought. "Do you know her hand very well?"
- She stared. "Then how am I to help you with it?"
- She was vague. "The other day?"
- Kate looked surprised. "Didn't she tell you he's staying there?"
- It made him a little awkwardly think. "Did you know he was going?"
- Densher thought. "Can I in any way help you with him?"
- Densher hesitated. "Do you mean in such want--?"
- She suffered, but he couldn't not question. "What does he do?"
- It made Kate herself hesitate. "He cries."
- Again for a moment he hung fire, but he risked it. "What _has_ he done?"
- He had another pause. "And what is it you know?"
- His pause this time was longer. "Left me her fortune?"
- She frowned a little. "I don't understand."
- He made a movement. "It's all I can do as a symbol of my attitude."
- He waited a moment. "What is it that you speak of my doing?"
- Densher paused. "I do nothing formal."
- THE END
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