The Age of Innocence

rested on a hanging calendar surmounted by the rugged features of the President of the United States. That such a conversation should be going on anywhere within the millions of square miles subject to his rule seemed as strange as anything that the imagination could invent.

\"The change—what sort of a change?\"

\"Ah, Monsieur, if I could tell you!\" M. Riviere paused. \"Tenez—the discovery, I suppose, of what I'd never thought


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rested on a hanging calendar surmounted by the rugged features of the President of the United States. That such a conversation should be going on anywhere within the millions of square miles subject to his rule seemed as strange as anything that the imagination could invent.

\"The change—what sort of a change?\"

\"Ah, Monsieur, if I could tell you!\" M. Riviere paused. \"Tenez—the discovery, I suppose, of what I'd never thought


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