The Age of Innocence

look: \"Yes; and that's what makes it so hard to refuse the very last thing they'll ever ask of me as a little girl.\"

That was the old New York note; that was the kind of answer he would like always to be sure of his wife's making. If one had habitually breathed the New York air there were times when anything less crystalline seemed stifling.


The papers he had retired to read did not tell him much in fact; but they plunged


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look: \"Yes; and that's what makes it so hard to refuse the very last thing they'll ever ask of me as a little girl.\"

That was the old New York note; that was the kind of answer he would like always to be sure of his wife's making. If one had habitually breathed the New York air there were times when anything less crystalline seemed stifling.


The papers he had retired to read did not tell him much in fact; but they plunged


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