The Age of Innocence



\"I wonder if she wears a round hat or a bonnet in the afternoon,\" Janey speculated. \"At the Opera I know she had on dark blue velvet, perfectly plain and flat—like a night-gown.\"

\"Janey!\" said her mother; and Miss Archer blushed and tried to look audacious.

\"It was, at any rate, in better taste not to go to the ball,\" Mrs. Archer continued.

A spirit of perversity moved her son to rejoin: \"I don't think it was a question


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\"I wonder if she wears a round hat or a bonnet in the afternoon,\" Janey speculated. \"At the Opera I know she had on dark blue velvet, perfectly plain and flat—like a night-gown.\"

\"Janey!\" said her mother; and Miss Archer blushed and tried to look audacious.

\"It was, at any rate, in better taste not to go to the ball,\" Mrs. Archer continued.

A spirit of perversity moved her son to rejoin: \"I don't think it was a question


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