The Age of Innocence

mysteriously. \"Little did you know that at that very moment I was being appealed to: being approached, in fact—from the other side of the Atlantic!\"

She glanced over her shoulder, as though fearful of being overheard, and then, drawing her chair nearer, and raising a tiny ivory fan to her lips, breathed behind it: \"By the Count himself—my poor, mad, foolish Olenski; who asks only to take her back on her own terms.\"

\"Good God!\" Archer exclaimed, springing up.


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mysteriously. \"Little did you know that at that very moment I was being appealed to: being approached, in fact—from the other side of the Atlantic!\"

She glanced over her shoulder, as though fearful of being overheard, and then, drawing her chair nearer, and raising a tiny ivory fan to her lips, breathed behind it: \"By the Count himself—my poor, mad, foolish Olenski; who asks only to take her back on her own terms.\"

\"Good God!\" Archer exclaimed, springing up.


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