Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of her past. She might believe herself wholly in revolt against it; but what had charmed her in it would still charm her even though it were against her will.
Edith WhartonAn education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.
Edith WhartonAnd all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them.
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