The Age of Innocence

good living; but people continued to come to her in spite of the \"made dishes\" and flat champagne, and in reply to the remonstrances of her son Lovell (who tried to retrieve the family credit by having the best chef in New York) she used to say laughingly: \"What's the use of two good cooks in one family, now that I've married the girls and can't eat sauces?\"

Newland Archer, as he mused on these things, had once more turned


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good living; but people continued to come to her in spite of the \"made dishes\" and flat champagne, and in reply to the remonstrances of her son Lovell (who tried to retrieve the family credit by having the best chef in New York) she used to say laughingly: \"What's the use of two good cooks in one family, now that I've married the girls and can't eat sauces?\"

Newland Archer, as he mused on these things, had once more turned


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