Strether's first question, when he reached the hotel, was about his friend; yet on his learning that Waymarsh was apparently not to arrive till evening he was not wholly disconcerted. A telegram from him bespeaking a room only if not noisy, reply paid, was produced for the enquirer at the office, so that the understanding they should meet at Chester rather than at Liverpool remained to that extent sound. The same secret principle, however, that had prompted Strether not absolutely to desire Waymarsh's presence at the dock, that had led him thus to postpone for a few hours his enjoyment of it, now operated to make him feel he could still wait without disappointment. They would dine together at the worst, and, with all respect to dear old Waymarsh-if not even, for that matter, to himself-there was little fear that in the sequel they shouldn't see enough of each other. The principle I have just mentioned as operating had been, with the most newly disembarked of the two men, wholly instinctive-the fruit of a sharp sense that, delightful as it would be to find himself looking, after so much separation, into his comrade's face, his business would be a trifle bungled should he simply arrange for this countenance to present itself to the nearing steamer as the first note, of Europe. Mixed with everything was the appre-hension, already, on Strether's part, that it would, at best, throughout, prove the note of Europe in quite a sufficient degree.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
1st World Library-Literary Society
ISBN-13
9781421826141
eBay Product ID (ePID)
178115360
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Ambassadors
Author
Henry Jr James
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2007
Number of Pages
516 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
140mm
Item Weight
785g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Henry Jr James
Editor
1st World Library, 1stworld Library
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