The Age of Innocence

patterns alternated with New England love-stories and advertisements of temperance drinks.

On the subject of \"Hearth-fires\" (as the paper was called) he was inexhaustibly entertaining; but beneath his fun lurked the sterile bitterness of the still young man who has tried and given up. His conversation always made Archer take the measure of his own life, and feel how little it contained; but Winsett's, after all, contained still less,


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patterns alternated with New England love-stories and advertisements of temperance drinks.

On the subject of \"Hearth-fires\" (as the paper was called) he was inexhaustibly entertaining; but beneath his fun lurked the sterile bitterness of the still young man who has tried and given up. His conversation always made Archer take the measure of his own life, and feel how little it contained; but Winsett's, after all, contained still less,


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