The Age of Innocence

which it would be his manly privilege to reveal to his bride. It was only that afternoon that May Welland had let him guess that she \"cared\" (New York's consecrated phrase of maiden avowal), and already his imagination, leaping ahead of the engagement ring, the betrothal kiss and the march from Lohengrin, pictured her at his side in some scene of old European witchery.

He did not in the least wish the future Mrs. Newland Archer


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which it would be his manly privilege to reveal to his bride. It was only that afternoon that May Welland had let him guess that she \"cared\" (New York's consecrated phrase of maiden avowal), and already his imagination, leaping ahead of the engagement ring, the betrothal kiss and the march from Lohengrin, pictured her at his side in some scene of old European witchery.

He did not in the least wish the future Mrs. Newland Archer


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