The Age of Innocence

too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

Mr. Sillerton Jackson stretched his ankles nearer the coals and emitted a sardonic whistle.

\"Well,\" he said after a pause, \"apparently Count Olenski takes your view; for I never heard of his having lifted a finger to get his wife back.\"


VI.

That evening, after Mr. Jackson had taken himself away, and the ladies had retired to their chintz-curtained bedroom, Newland Archer


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too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

Mr. Sillerton Jackson stretched his ankles nearer the coals and emitted a sardonic whistle.

\"Well,\" he said after a pause, \"apparently Count Olenski takes your view; for I never heard of his having lifted a finger to get his wife back.\"


VI.

That evening, after Mr. Jackson had taken himself away, and the ladies had retired to their chintz-curtained bedroom, Newland Archer


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