The Age of Innocence

yourself so unselfishly to Madame Olenska. I told your cousin Henry he must really come to the rescue.\"

He was aware of smiling at her vaguely, and she added, as if condescending to his natural shyness: \"I've never seen May looking lovelier. The Duke thinks her the handsomest girl in the room.\"


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The Countess Olenska had said \"after five\"; and at half after the hour Newland Archer rang the bell of the peeling stucco


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yourself so unselfishly to Madame Olenska. I told your cousin Henry he must really come to the rescue.\"

He was aware of smiling at her vaguely, and she added, as if condescending to his natural shyness: \"I've never seen May looking lovelier. The Duke thinks her the handsomest girl in the room.\"


IX.

The Countess Olenska had said \"after five\"; and at half after the hour Newland Archer rang the bell of the peeling stucco


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