of drawing-rooms dominated by the talk of Merimee (whose \"Lettres a une Inconnue\" was one of his inseparables), of Thackeray, Browning or William Morris. But such things were inconceivable in New York, and unsettling to think of. Archer knew most of the \"fellows who wrote,\" the musicians and the painters: he met them at the Century, or at the little musical and theatrical clubs that were beginning to come into existence. He enjoyed them there,
of drawing-rooms dominated by the talk of Merimee (whose \"Lettres a une Inconnue\" was one of his inseparables), of Thackeray, Browning or William Morris. But such things were inconceivable in New York, and unsettling to think of. Archer knew most of the \"fellows who wrote,\" the musicians and the painters: he met them at the Century, or at the little musical and theatrical clubs that were beginning to come into existence. He enjoyed them there,
