The Age of Innocence

the society in which the Countess Olenska had lived and suffered, and also—perhaps—tasted mysterious joys. He remembered with what amusement she had told him that her grandmother Mingott and the Wellands objected to her living in a \"Bohemian\" quarter given over to \"people who wrote.\" It was not the peril but the poverty that her family disliked; but that shade escaped her, and she supposed they considered literature compromising.


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the society in which the Countess Olenska had lived and suffered, and also—perhaps—tasted mysterious joys. He remembered with what amusement she had told him that her grandmother Mingott and the Wellands objected to her living in a \"Bohemian\" quarter given over to \"people who wrote.\" It was not the peril but the poverty that her family disliked; but that shade escaped her, and she supposed they considered literature compromising.


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