The Age of Innocence

to stop at his club on the way up from the office where he exercised the profession of the law in the leisurely manner common to well-to-do New Yorkers of his class. He was out of spirits and slightly out of temper, and a haunting horror of doing the same thing every day at the same hour besieged his brain.

\"Sameness—sameness!\" he muttered, the word running through his head like a persecuting tune as he saw the familiar tall-hatted


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to stop at his club on the way up from the office where he exercised the profession of the law in the leisurely manner common to well-to-do New Yorkers of his class. He was out of spirits and slightly out of temper, and a haunting horror of doing the same thing every day at the same hour besieged his brain.

\"Sameness—sameness!\" he muttered, the word running through his head like a persecuting tune as he saw the familiar tall-hatted


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