The Age of Innocence

it won't hurt us to talk about it.\" She paused, and added, lifting her head with one of her noble movements: \"Or even if it's true: why shouldn't we speak of it? You might so easily have made a mistake.\"

He lowered his head, staring at the black leaf-pattern on the sunny path at their feet. \"Mistakes are always easy to make; but if I had made one of the kind you suggest, is it likely that I should be imploring you to hasten our marriage?\"


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it won't hurt us to talk about it.\" She paused, and added, lifting her head with one of her noble movements: \"Or even if it's true: why shouldn't we speak of it? You might so easily have made a mistake.\"

He lowered his head, staring at the black leaf-pattern on the sunny path at their feet. \"Mistakes are always easy to make; but if I had made one of the kind you suggest, is it likely that I should be imploring you to hasten our marriage?\"


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