The Age of Innocence

considerable embarrassment. Was there any one, he wondered, to whom Madame Olenska had not proclaimed his intervention in her private affairs?

\"Madame Olenska exaggerates; I simply gave her a legal opinion, as she asked me to.\"

\"Ah, but in doing it—in doing it you were the unconscious instrument of—of—what word have we moderns for Providence, Mr. Archer?\" cried the lady, tilting her head on one side and drooping her lids


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considerable embarrassment. Was there any one, he wondered, to whom Madame Olenska had not proclaimed his intervention in her private affairs?

\"Madame Olenska exaggerates; I simply gave her a legal opinion, as she asked me to.\"

\"Ah, but in doing it—in doing it you were the unconscious instrument of—of—what word have we moderns for Providence, Mr. Archer?\" cried the lady, tilting her head on one side and drooping her lids


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