The Age of Innocence



Mrs. Archer and Janey, in the course of their visits to Europe, had so unflinchingly lived up to this principle, and met the friendly advances of their fellow-travellers with an air of such impenetrable reserve, that they had almost achieved the record of never having exchanged a word with a \"foreigner\" other than those employed in hotels and railway-stations. Their own compatriots—save those previously known or properly accredited—they


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Mrs. Archer and Janey, in the course of their visits to Europe, had so unflinchingly lived up to this principle, and met the friendly advances of their fellow-travellers with an air of such impenetrable reserve, that they had almost achieved the record of never having exchanged a word with a \"foreigner\" other than those employed in hotels and railway-stations. Their own compatriots—save those previously known or properly accredited—they


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