The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER VIII. It was generally agreed in New York that the Countess Olenska had "lost her looks." She had appeared there first, in Newland...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER VII. Mrs. Henry van der Luyden listened in silence to her cousin Mrs. Archer's narrative. It was all very well to tell yourself in advance that...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER VI. That evening, after Mr. Jackson had taken himself away, and the ladies had retired to their chintz-curtained bedroom, Newland Archer mounted...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER V. The next evening old Mr. Sillerton Jackson came to dine with the Archers. Mrs. Archer was a shy woman and shrank from society; but she liked to be...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER IV. In the course of the next day the first of the usual betrothal visits were exchanged. The New York ritual was precise and inflexible in such matters;...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER III. It invariably happened in the same way. Mrs. Julius Beaufort, on the night of her annual ball, never failed to appear at the Opera; indeed, she...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER II. Newland Archer, during this brief episode, had been thrown into a strange state of embarrassment. It was annoying that the box which was thus...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER XXXIV. Newland Archer sat at the writing-table in his library in East Thirty-ninth Street. He had just got back from a big official reception for the...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER XXXIII. It was, as Mrs. Archer smilingly said to Mrs. Welland, a great event for a young couple to give their first big dinner. The Newland Archers, since...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER XXXII. "At the court of the Tuileries," said Mr. Sillerton Jackson with his reminiscent smile, "such things were pretty openly...