The Age of Innocence

her feet in a gentian-bed, had smiled cheerfully, and replied: \"It would be lovely to go there next winter, if only you didn't have to be in New York.\"

But in reality travelling interested her even less than he had expected. She regarded it (once her clothes were ordered) as merely an enlarged opportunity for walking, riding, swimming, and trying her hand at the fascinating new game of lawn tennis; and when they finally got


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her feet in a gentian-bed, had smiled cheerfully, and replied: \"It would be lovely to go there next winter, if only you didn't have to be in New York.\"

But in reality travelling interested her even less than he had expected. She regarded it (once her clothes were ordered) as merely an enlarged opportunity for walking, riding, swimming, and trying her hand at the fascinating new game of lawn tennis; and when they finally got


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