The Age of Innocence

or else she had lost sight of it in the triumph of the van der Luyden evening. Archer inclined to the former theory; he fancied that her New York was still completely undifferentiated, and the conjecture nettled him.

\"Last night,\" he said, \"New York laid itself out for you. The van der Luydens do nothing by halves.\"

\"No: how kind they are! It was such a nice party. Every one seems to have such an esteem for them.\"

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or else she had lost sight of it in the triumph of the van der Luyden evening. Archer inclined to the former theory; he fancied that her New York was still completely undifferentiated, and the conjecture nettled him.

\"Last night,\" he said, \"New York laid itself out for you. The van der Luydens do nothing by halves.\"

\"No: how kind they are! It was such a nice party. Every one seems to have such an esteem for them.\"

The


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