and glanced sideways at Lawrence Lefferts, who sat carelessly in the front of the box, pulling his long fair moustache, and who remarked with authority, as the soprano paused: \"No one but Patti ought to attempt the Sonnambula.\"
VIII.
It was generally agreed in New York that the Countess Olenska had \"lost her looks.\"
She had appeared there first, in Newland Archer's boyhood, as a brilliantly pretty little girl of nine or ten,
and glanced sideways at Lawrence Lefferts, who sat carelessly in the front of the box, pulling his long fair moustache, and who remarked with authority, as the soprano paused: \"No one but Patti ought to attempt the Sonnambula.\"
VIII.
It was generally agreed in New York that the Countess Olenska had \"lost her looks.\"
She had appeared there first, in Newland Archer's boyhood, as a brilliantly pretty little girl of nine or ten,
