The Age of Innocence

good talk after dinner about books and things,\" he threw out tentatively in the hansom.

May roused herself from one of the dreamy silences into which he had read so many meanings before six months of marriage had given him the key to them.

\"The little Frenchman? Wasn't he dreadfully common?\" she questioned coldly; and he guessed that she nursed a secret disappointment at having been invited out in London to meet a clergyman


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good talk after dinner about books and things,\" he threw out tentatively in the hansom.

May roused herself from one of the dreamy silences into which he had read so many meanings before six months of marriage had given him the key to them.

\"The little Frenchman? Wasn't he dreadfully common?\" she questioned coldly; and he guessed that she nursed a secret disappointment at having been invited out in London to meet a clergyman


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