you have been away a very long time.\"
\"Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,\" she said, \"that I'm sure I'm dead and buried, and this dear old place is heaven;\" which, for reasons he could not define, struck Newland Archer as an even more disrespectful way of describing New York society.
III.
It invariably happened in the same way.
Mrs. Julius Beaufort, on the night of her annual ball, never failed to appear at the Opera; indeed,
you have been away a very long time.\"
\"Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,\" she said, \"that I'm sure I'm dead and buried, and this dear old place is heaven;\" which, for reasons he could not define, struck Newland Archer as an even more disrespectful way of describing New York society.
III.
It invariably happened in the same way.
Mrs. Julius Beaufort, on the night of her annual ball, never failed to appear at the Opera; indeed,
