The Age of Innocence

would have laughed if any one had foretold to him that his first sight of poor Medora Manson would have been in the guise of a messenger of Satan; but he was in no mood for laughing now, and she seemed to him to come straight out of the hell from which Ellen Olenska had just escaped.

\"She knows nothing yet—of all this?\" he asked abruptly.

Mrs. Manson laid a purple finger on her lips. \"Nothing directly—but does she suspect? Who can tell? The truth is,


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would have laughed if any one had foretold to him that his first sight of poor Medora Manson would have been in the guise of a messenger of Satan; but he was in no mood for laughing now, and she seemed to him to come straight out of the hell from which Ellen Olenska had just escaped.

\"She knows nothing yet—of all this?\" he asked abruptly.

Mrs. Manson laid a purple finger on her lips. \"Nothing directly—but does she suspect? Who can tell? The truth is,


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