The Age of Innocence

his fancy as suited to the occasion and to her unhappy situation; but the way her dress (which had no tucker) sloped away from her thin shoulders shocked and troubled him. He hated to think of May Welland's being exposed to the influence of a young woman so careless of the dictates of Taste.

\"After all,\" he heard one of the younger men begin behind him (everybody talked through the Mephistopheles-and-Martha scenes), \"after all, just WHAT happened?\"


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his fancy as suited to the occasion and to her unhappy situation; but the way her dress (which had no tucker) sloped away from her thin shoulders shocked and troubled him. He hated to think of May Welland's being exposed to the influence of a young woman so careless of the dictates of Taste.

\"After all,\" he heard one of the younger men begin behind him (everybody talked through the Mephistopheles-and-Martha scenes), \"after all, just WHAT happened?\"


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