The Age of Innocence



\"Well—she left him; nobody attempts to deny that.\"

\"He's an awful brute, isn't he?\" continued the young enquirer, a candid Thorley, who was evidently preparing to enter the lists as the lady's champion.

\"The very worst; I knew him at Nice,\" said Lawrence Lefferts with authority. \"A half-paralysed white sneering fellow—rather handsome head, but eyes with a lot of lashes. Well, I'll tell you the sort: when he wasn't with


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\"Well—she left him; nobody attempts to deny that.\"

\"He's an awful brute, isn't he?\" continued the young enquirer, a candid Thorley, who was evidently preparing to enter the lists as the lady's champion.

\"The very worst; I knew him at Nice,\" said Lawrence Lefferts with authority. \"A half-paralysed white sneering fellow—rather handsome head, but eyes with a lot of lashes. Well, I'll tell you the sort: when he wasn't with


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