The Age of Innocence

their drive home from Mrs. Manson Mingott's on the day of the Archery Meeting: \"Perhaps, after all, Ellen would be happier with her husband.\"

Even in the tumult of new discoveries Archer remembered his indignant exclamation, and the fact that since then his wife had never named Madame Olenska to him. Her careless allusion had no doubt been the straw held up to see which way the wind blew; the result had been reported to the family,


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their drive home from Mrs. Manson Mingott's on the day of the Archery Meeting: \"Perhaps, after all, Ellen would be happier with her husband.\"

Even in the tumult of new discoveries Archer remembered his indignant exclamation, and the fact that since then his wife had never named Madame Olenska to him. Her careless allusion had no doubt been the straw held up to see which way the wind blew; the result had been reported to the family,


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