He remembered what she had told him of Mrs. Welland's request to be spared whatever was \"unpleasant\" in her history, and winced at the thought that it was perhaps this attitude of mind which kept the New York air so pure. \"Are we only Pharisees after all?\" he wondered, puzzled by the effort to reconcile his instinctive disgust at human vileness with his equally instinctive pity for human frailty.
For the first time he perceived
He remembered what she had told him of Mrs. Welland's request to be spared whatever was \"unpleasant\" in her history, and winced at the thought that it was perhaps this attitude of mind which kept the New York air so pure. \"Are we only Pharisees after all?\" he wondered, puzzled by the effort to reconcile his instinctive disgust at human vileness with his equally instinctive pity for human frailty.
For the first time he perceived
