GR translation: This smile asks from him more grace than...

[jochen stremmel]

Gracefulness, I think.

2013/3/4 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
> P256.11-17   “Glad to hear it.” Slothrop is smiling. You’re on my list too,
> pal. This smile asks from him more grace than anything in his languid
> American life ever has, up till now. Grace he always imagined himself short
> on. But it’s working. He’s surprised, and so grateful that he almost starts
> crying then. The best part of all is not that Bounce appears fooled by the
> smile, but that Slothrop knows now that it will work for him again. . . .
>
> I find the word "grace" a little difficult to translate.  what is the
> primary meaning here?
>