Quotation from: The Awkward Age

Written by: Henry James


"Oh but it's an awfully short list, isn't it? If it consists only of me
and Mitchy he's not so very low down. We don't allow her very MANY
friends; we look out too well for ourselves." He addressed the child as
on an easy jocose understanding. "Is the question, Aggie, whether we
shall allow you Mr. Longdon? Won't that rather 'do' for us--for Mitchy
and me? I say, Duchess," he went on as this lady reappeared, "ARE we
going to allow her Mr. Longdon and do we quite realise what we're about?
We mount guard awfully, you know"--he carried the joke back to the
person he had named. "We sift and we sort, we pick the candidates over,
and I should like to hear any one say that in this case at least I don't
keep a watch on my taste. Oh we close in!"

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