The Age of Innocence

wavering into the shadow of a smile, made the almost invariable reply: \"I shall first have to talk this over with my husband.\"

She and Mr. van der Luyden were so exactly alike that Archer often wondered how, after forty years of the closest conjugality, two such merged identities ever separated themselves enough for anything as controversial as a talking-over. But as neither had ever reached a decision without prefacing it by this mysterious conclave,


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wavering into the shadow of a smile, made the almost invariable reply: \"I shall first have to talk this over with my husband.\"

She and Mr. van der Luyden were so exactly alike that Archer often wondered how, after forty years of the closest conjugality, two such merged identities ever separated themselves enough for anything as controversial as a talking-over. But as neither had ever reached a decision without prefacing it by this mysterious conclave,


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