With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of …

Edith Wharton
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With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other. ✨ Edith Wharton (2010). The Age of Innocence, p.36, Bibliolis Books
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With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other. ✨ Edith Wharton (2010). The Age of Innocence, p.36, Bibliolis Books

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