...The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Age of Inn... ...tate Electronic Classics Series Publication The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...vers, and the Countess have conversed with that amiable hypochondriac, Mr. Urban Dagonet of Washington Square, who, in order to have the pleasure of m... ...ust then Mr. van der Luyden came 47 Edith Wharton up, followed by old Mr. Urban Dagonet. The Countess greeted them with her grave smile, and Archer, ... ... by old Catherine Mingott) 66 The Age of Innocence should be so evidently planning to draw him into the affair. After all, there were plenty of Mingo... ...come down for three weeks because Kate Merry had had bronchitis. They were planning to lay out a lawn tennis court on the sands; but no one but Kate a... ...brary that he and May had always discussed the future of the children: the studies of Dallas and his young brother Bill, Mary’s incurable indifference...

...there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy. Conservatives cherished it for being sma...