He stopped
halfway; he stood there in the court only seeing her go and noting
that she gave him no other look. The way he had put it to himself
was that all quite MIGHT be at an end. Each of her movements,
in this resolute rupture, reaffirmed, re-enforced that idea.
Sarah passed out of sight in the sunny street while, planted there
in the centre of the comparatively grey court, he continued merely
to look before him. It probably WAS all at an end.
Book Eleventh
[Note: In the 1909 New York Edition the following two chapters were placed
in the reverse of the order appearing below. Since 1950, most scholars have
agreed, because of the internal evidence of the two chapters, that an
editorial error caused them to be printed in reverse order. This Etext,
like other editions of the past four decades, corrects the apparent error.
-- Richard D. Hathaway, preparer of this electronic text]
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He went late that evening to the Boulevard Malesherbes, having his
impression that it would be vain to go early, and having also, more
than once in the course of the day, made enquiries of the concierge.
Chad hadn't come in and had left no intimation; he had affairs,
apparently, at this juncture--as it occurred to Strether he so well
might have--that kept him long abroad.
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