Edith Wharton

📔 The Other Two

1904

Some experimental spirits could not resist the diversion of throwing Varick and his former wife together, and there were those who thought he found a zest in the propinquity.

📔 The Custom of the Country

1913

Elmer Moffatt had been magnificent, rolling out his alternating effects of humour and pathos, stirring his audience by moving references to the Blue and the Gray, convulsing them by a new version of Washington and the Cherry Tree […] , dazzling them by his erudite allusions and apt quotations.

📔 The Age of Innocence

1920

Perhaps she too had kept her memory of him as something apart; but if she had, it must have been like a relic in a small dim chapel, where there was not time to pray every day....

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The Other Two The Custom of the Country The Age of Innocence