The Age of Innocence

and flung Archer and Madame Olenska against each other. The young man, trembling, felt the pressure of her shoulder, and passed his arm about her.


\"If you're not blind, then, you must see that this can't last.\"

\"What can't?\"

\"Our being together—and not together.\"

\"No. You ought not to have come today,\" she said in an altered voice; and suddenly she turned, flung her arms about him and pressed her lips to his. At the same moment the carriage began to move,


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and flung Archer and Madame Olenska against each other. The young man, trembling, felt the pressure of her shoulder, and passed his arm about her.


\"If you're not blind, then, you must see that this can't last.\"

\"What can't?\"

\"Our being together—and not together.\"

\"No. You ought not to have come today,\" she said in an altered voice; and suddenly she turned, flung her arms about him and pressed her lips to his. At the same moment the carriage began to move,


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