The Age of Innocence

and he presented to the world the appearance of a careless and hospitable millionaire strolling into his own drawing-room with the detachment of an invited guest, and saying: \"My wife's gloxinias are a marvel, aren't they? I believe she gets them out from Kew.\"

Mr. Beaufort's secret, people were agreed, was the way he carried things off. It was all very well to whisper that he had been \"helped\" to leave England by the international


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and he presented to the world the appearance of a careless and hospitable millionaire strolling into his own drawing-room with the detachment of an invited guest, and saying: \"My wife's gloxinias are a marvel, aren't they? I believe she gets them out from Kew.\"

Mr. Beaufort's secret, people were agreed, was the way he carried things off. It was all very well to whisper that he had been \"helped\" to leave England by the international


68 of 1313