The Age of Innocence

and added her voice to the discussion. In THEIR day, the elder ladies agreed, the wife of a man who had done anything disgraceful in business had only one idea: to efface herself, to disappear with him. \"There was the case of poor Grandmamma Spicer; your great-grandmother, May. Of course,\" Mrs. Welland hastened to add, \"your great-grandfather's money difficulties were private—losses at cards, or signing a note for somebody—I never quite knew,


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and added her voice to the discussion. In THEIR day, the elder ladies agreed, the wife of a man who had done anything disgraceful in business had only one idea: to efface herself, to disappear with him. \"There was the case of poor Grandmamma Spicer; your great-grandmother, May. Of course,\" Mrs. Welland hastened to add, \"your great-grandfather's money difficulties were private—losses at cards, or signing a note for somebody—I never quite knew,


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