The Age of Innocence

and bathed in summer bloom; but not one had the nymph-like ease of his wife, when, with tense muscles and happy frown, she bent her soul upon some feat of strength.

\"Gad,\" Archer heard Lawrence Lefferts say, \"not one of the lot holds the bow as she does\"; and Beaufort retorted: \"Yes; but that's the only kind of target she'll ever hit.\"

Archer felt irrationally angry. His host's contemptuous tribute to May's \"niceness\"


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and bathed in summer bloom; but not one had the nymph-like ease of his wife, when, with tense muscles and happy frown, she bent her soul upon some feat of strength.

\"Gad,\" Archer heard Lawrence Lefferts say, \"not one of the lot holds the bow as she does\"; and Beaufort retorted: \"Yes; but that's the only kind of target she'll ever hit.\"

Archer felt irrationally angry. His host's contemptuous tribute to May's \"niceness\"


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