The Age of Innocence

sensitive domesticity shrank from the discomforts of the slovenly southern hotel, and at immense expense, and in face of almost insuperable difficulties, Mrs. Welland was obliged, year after year, to improvise an establishment partly made up of discontented New York servants and partly drawn from the local African supply.

\"The doctors want my husband to feel that he is in his own home; otherwise he would be so wretched that the climate would not do him any good,


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sensitive domesticity shrank from the discomforts of the slovenly southern hotel, and at immense expense, and in face of almost insuperable difficulties, Mrs. Welland was obliged, year after year, to improvise an establishment partly made up of discontented New York servants and partly drawn from the local African supply.

\"The doctors want my husband to feel that he is in his own home; otherwise he would be so wretched that the climate would not do him any good,


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