The Age of Innocence

I must have time. I know my Ellen—haughty, intractable; shall I say, just a shade unforgiving?\"

\"But, good heavens, to forgive is one thing; to go back into that hell—\"

\"Ah, yes,\" the Marchioness acquiesced. \"So she describes it—my sensitive child! But on the material side, Mr. Archer, if one may stoop to consider such things; do you know what she is giving up? Those roses there on the sofa—acres like them, under glass and in the open,


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I must have time. I know my Ellen—haughty, intractable; shall I say, just a shade unforgiving?\"

\"But, good heavens, to forgive is one thing; to go back into that hell—\"

\"Ah, yes,\" the Marchioness acquiesced. \"So she describes it—my sensitive child! But on the material side, Mr. Archer, if one may stoop to consider such things; do you know what she is giving up? Those roses there on the sofa—acres like them, under glass and in the open,


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