The Age of Innocence

had never before made any allusion to the flowers, and he supposed she had never thought of him as the sender. Now her sudden recognition of the gift, and her associating it with the tender leave-taking on the stage, filled him with an agitated pleasure.

\"I was thinking of that too—I was going to leave the theatre in order to take the picture away with me,\" he said.

To his surprise her colour rose, reluctantly and duskily.


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had never before made any allusion to the flowers, and he supposed she had never thought of him as the sender. Now her sudden recognition of the gift, and her associating it with the tender leave-taking on the stage, filled him with an agitated pleasure.

\"I was thinking of that too—I was going to leave the theatre in order to take the picture away with me,\" he said.

To his surprise her colour rose, reluctantly and duskily.


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