The Age of Innocence

screwed-up eyes. \"But marriage is one long sacrifice, as I used often to remind my Ellen—\"

Archer's heart stopped with the queer jerk which it had given once before, and which seemed suddenly to slam a door between himself and the outer world; but this break of continuity must have been of the briefest, for he presently heard Medora answering a question he had apparently found voice to put.

\"No, I am not staying here, but with the Blenkers,


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screwed-up eyes. \"But marriage is one long sacrifice, as I used often to remind my Ellen—\"

Archer's heart stopped with the queer jerk which it had given once before, and which seemed suddenly to slam a door between himself and the outer world; but this break of continuity must have been of the briefest, for he presently heard Medora answering a question he had apparently found voice to put.

\"No, I am not staying here, but with the Blenkers,


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