The Age of Innocence

she threw in her lot with the vulgarest of dissemblers: a woman engaged in a love affair with Beaufort \"classed\" herself irretrievably.

No, it was worse a thousand times if, judging Beaufort, and probably despising him, she was yet drawn to him by all that gave him an advantage over the other men about her: his habit of two continents and two societies, his familiar association with artists and actors and people generally in the world's eye,


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she threw in her lot with the vulgarest of dissemblers: a woman engaged in a love affair with Beaufort \"classed\" herself irretrievably.

No, it was worse a thousand times if, judging Beaufort, and probably despising him, she was yet drawn to him by all that gave him an advantage over the other men about her: his habit of two continents and two societies, his familiar association with artists and actors and people generally in the world's eye,


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