The Age of Innocence

then; for somebody met 'em living at Lausanne together.\"


Newland reddened. \"Living together? Well, why not? Who had the right to make her life over if she hadn't? I'm sick of the hypocrisy that would bury alive a woman of her age if her husband prefers to live with harlots.\"

He stopped and turned away angrily to light his cigar. \"Women ought to be free—as free as we are,\" he declared, making a discovery of which he was


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then; for somebody met 'em living at Lausanne together.\"


Newland reddened. \"Living together? Well, why not? Who had the right to make her life over if she hadn't? I'm sick of the hypocrisy that would bury alive a woman of her age if her husband prefers to live with harlots.\"

He stopped and turned away angrily to light his cigar. \"Women ought to be free—as free as we are,\" he declared, making a discovery of which he was


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