The Ambassadors

It wasn't till after he had spoken…

He was about to go up to London…

She left him after he had taken from…

Though he wasn't shy…

I'm a companion at large.

Chapter 2

He was of the personal type…

It had the oddest sound…

Chapter 3

She was weak enough…

It was at all events…

'Yes, and talking to you as I do.'

Book Second: Chapter 1

All sorts of things in fact…

It was as if for a moment…

She had listened with all her interest.

In the midst of such doings…'

After which however, and before…

By which you mean…'

Book Second: Chapter 2

In the Luxembourg Gardens…

But it stood solidly for…

These were instants at…

It upset him a little…

He was that at no moment…

This perpetual reaction put a price…

Book Third: Chapter 1

The way he wound it up…

As, however, this last assertion…

There was no great pulse…

He might perish by the sword…

Book Third: Chapter 2

'When then does he come?'

He had agreed with Miss Gostrey…

He liked the ingenuous compatriots…

The best of whom, Ma’am?'

He faced it on the spot.

It was truly the life…

He had therefore, further…

Book Fourth: Chapter 1

But in spite of that…

Chad again fell back…

'Of course,' Chad here…

Chad's pride seemed none the less…

Chapter 2

Strether sought relief…

All one's energy goes…

He had the courage at least…

They were occasions of discussion…

Little Bilham, in meditation…

As the half-hour meanwhile…

Nothing certainly, on all the indications…

But she kept it up.

Book Fifth: Chapter 1

Strether had presently the sense…

Who were they all…?

Strether, very quickly, turned…

Well then there we are!'

Chapter 2

'I've heard a great deal…'

Madame de Vionnet didn't…

It was the general sense of them…

Then there was something in the…

Well, what was it now…

Chapter 3

It was nothing new to him…

She went on at all events…

Strether wondered - little as he…

Chad kept it up beautifully.

Book Sixth: Chapter 1

The general resolve to this…

It gave poor Strether…

Is that what Chad has told you…'

Strether meanwhile had been staring.

Chapter 2

Jeanne de Vionnet had…

'He has wonderful taste…'

'Well,' he acutely admitted…

She smoked again as she thus…

Chapter 3

Not since she went - I had only…'

'Not,' Strether replied…

'I'm unfortunately but a small farthing…'

It isn't every clever…

thought that was…'

Book Seventh: Chapter 1

Thus it was, at all events…

'I come often,' she said…

Every little, in a long strain…

That accident had definitely occurred…

She was instantly all there.

'Oh all the while, naturally.'

Chapter 2

Strether, at his glass, finished dressing…

'Well,' said Strether…

He got up at last…

Book Seventh: Chapter 3

It was an account…

But the difficulty as to…

He walked about with her…

My coming to grief?'

Book Eighth: Chapter 1

He had the entertainment…

It was the advantage…

A moment after speaking…

All that, for Chad, was beautifully obvious.

Chapter 2

As to which issue…

However Sarah was judging…

It was a strange impression…

There were things in this speech…

Chapter 3

Madame de Vionnet had…

Mrs Pocock met her handsomely…

'When does one ever see you?'

Still another result of it was…

Sarah hesitated, but she rose equal.

Book Ninth: Chapter 1

She had invented a way…

'She may be persuasive…'

'But for Mr Waymarsh' - she recalled…

She looked for a moment…

Monsieur de Vionnet will accept…'

Chapter 2

He had a laugh at his tribute…

'You thought Chad…'

Chapter 3

It was apparently for Sarah…

She turned with a start…

But, friendly, familiar, light of touch…

He risked accordingly a different question…

Book Tenth: Chapter 1

A thousand unuttered thoughts…

'Just as good as you and these others?'

'You want me to marry…?'

Little Bilham sat staring before him…

She had apparently…

'It's only up to her chin.'

And then, as he seemed…

Chapter 2

And it was others who looked abstemious…

This was spoken by Waymarsh…

Their eyes met on it with some intensity…

Book Tenth: Chapter 3

She wasn't at all funny at last…

Till then her view of his…

He tried, with no great success…

Book Eleventh: Chapter 1

He had been pursuing Chad…

But I've supposed you all this while…

It was as if Mrs Newsome…

'Oh you mustn't starve!'

'Do you want to sit still?'

Chapter 2

You're certainly very kind to me.'

He stood before her again.

'The really handsome thing perhaps,'…

But they were to have…'

'You mean you were to have found Chad…'

Book Eleventh: Chapter 3

There was a train back to Paris…

In the light of the last few days…

For this had been all day…

Book Eleventh: Chapter 4

He was to reflect later…

It was with the lie…

Book Twelfth: Chapter 1

This would give a sense…

He should soon be going…

Book Twelfth: Chapter 2

He felt what he had felt…

She sat and covered her face…

Book Twelfth: Chapter 3

'The essential freshness of a relation…'

It was to talk to me,’ Maria returned…'

Strether thought of it serenely.

Chapter 4

But he had meanwhile come up four flights…

Strether met his eyes…

After which, however, as his friend…

Affects, you mean, the sale…?'

Chapter 5

He came back to his breakfast…

What then do you go home to?'