The Sense of the Past by Henry James (Illustrated) by Henry James

Author:Henry James [JAMES, HENRY]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Parts Edition 23 of 65 by Delphi Classics
Publisher: Delphi Classics (Parts Edition)
Published: 2017-07-22T00:00:00+00:00

Perry’s voice it was, positively, that had the warmth, and that was already, for the good of all of them, translating the suspense into terms. “Are you ready for Sir Cantopher?” he asked of Ralph with a pertinence which, as soon as thus attested, seemed to have picked up our young man’s declaration with an overreaching hand. There was something they could rally to, particularly as a loud rubadubdub at the door had followed the report of arrested coach-wheels before it. “Ah, there the dear man is!” Mrs. Midmore at once recovered her faculty to say — even if all to the immediate effect of calling on Ralph first to search his own.

“Sir Cantopher, Sir Cantopher?” It was nature again for Ralph even if it was in its prime newness uncertainty. And it was uncertainty but just enough to prepare his glow of response. “Sir Cantopher Bland? Why, there’s nothing I shall more prize than the honour of his acquaintance.”

“He looks forward eagerly to the pleasure of yours,” Mrs. Midmore remarked with clear assurance; so that Molly was the last to speak — which she did all to the tune again of her own high colour.

“I hope it won’t interfere with your liking him, sir, that as you’ve been so taken with the fancy of my sister, he’s taken worse still and from years and years ago.”

“Oh he’s in love with her? Yes surely, I know that — know it now,” Ralph added.

“Of course you know it when I tell you, dear,” the girl returned smiling, but with her eyes, it struck him, searching him as we have just noted his having had to search himself. He felt it as more of a watch of him in spite of his word than anything had yet been, and this he resented in proportion to his pride in the fine presence of mind he had so quickly recovered. So that made him positively go further, go in fact a length which was the longest he had used up to now.

“Oh! know more than you tell me, I know what I’ve been knowing. Of course he is in love with Nan,” he made out; “almost as much in love with her as I’m with you. Only with the difference,” it came to him, “that his passion isn’t returned — !”

“As I return yours is what you mean, dear?” — she took him straight up. And then when he had quickly pronounced this exactly what he meant, with a glance too at the fact that so much was evident, he had still to meet her asking how he could be so sure when they had been having it from him, and to the extent of his fairly complaining, that no information about her sister had ever reached him. The effect — he at once took this in — was of his being fairly cross-questioned, so that he should somehow be put to the proof of what he might say with the very entrance of the gentleman who would have already alighted below and perhaps be now on the stair.

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