The Age of Innocence



\"The case is off—postponed.\"

\"Postponed? How odd! I saw a note this morning from Mr. Letterblair to Mamma saying that he was going to Washington tomorrow for the big patent case that he was to argue before the Supreme Court. You said it was a patent case, didn't you?\"

\"Well—that's it: the whole office can't go. Letterblair decided to go this morning.\"

\"Then it's NOT postponed?\" she continued, with an insistence so


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\"The case is off—postponed.\"

\"Postponed? How odd! I saw a note this morning from Mr. Letterblair to Mamma saying that he was going to Washington tomorrow for the big patent case that he was to argue before the Supreme Court. You said it was a patent case, didn't you?\"

\"Well—that's it: the whole office can't go. Letterblair decided to go this morning.\"

\"Then it's NOT postponed?\" she continued, with an insistence so


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