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The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton

... ment to him it was felt to be one more act of folly in poor Medora’s long record of imprudences. But folly is as often justified of her children as w... ...I like it for just that—the straight-up-and-downness, and the big hon- est labels on everything!” He saw his chance. “Everything may be labelled—but e... ...ith an air of such impenetrable reserve, that they had almost achieved the record of never having exchanged a word with a “foreigner” other than those... ...everything go by the board but the supreme need of thus putting himself on record. Archer considered. “May I ask,” he said at length, “if this is the ... ...elegram across the brass ledge of the Western Union office. “Olenska—O-len-ska,” he repeated, drawing back the mes- sage in order to print out the for...

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