The Age of Innocence

I might have two families to stand by me instead of one—\"

At that he broke into a laugh.

\"Just imagine,\" she said, \"how stupid and unobservant I was! I knew nothing of all this till Granny blurted it out one day. New York simply meant peace and freedom to me: it was coming home. And I was so happy at being among my own people that every one I met seemed kind and good, and glad to see me. But from the very beginning,\" she continued,


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I might have two families to stand by me instead of one—\"

At that he broke into a laugh.

\"Just imagine,\" she said, \"how stupid and unobservant I was! I knew nothing of all this till Granny blurted it out one day. New York simply meant peace and freedom to me: it was coming home. And I was so happy at being among my own people that every one I met seemed kind and good, and glad to see me. But from the very beginning,\" she continued,


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