The Age of Innocence

\"that she attaches no importance to the money. Therefore, as the family say, why not let well enough alone?\"

Archer had gone to the house an hour earlier in full agreement with Mr. Letterblair's view; but put into words by this selfish, well-fed and supremely indifferent old man it suddenly became the Pharisaic voice of a society wholly absorbed in barricading itself against the unpleasant.

\"I think that's for her to decide.\"


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\"that she attaches no importance to the money. Therefore, as the family say, why not let well enough alone?\"

Archer had gone to the house an hour earlier in full agreement with Mr. Letterblair's view; but put into words by this selfish, well-fed and supremely indifferent old man it suddenly became the Pharisaic voice of a society wholly absorbed in barricading itself against the unpleasant.

\"I think that's for her to decide.\"


358 of 1313