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THE OLD MAID PART I:I,II,III,IV,V. PART II:VI,VII,VIII,IX,X,XI.

OLD NEW YORK

 
FALSE DAWN

(The ’Forties)


By EDITH WHARTON

OLD NEW YORK

False Dawn

The Old Maid

The Spark

New Year’s Day

THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE

SUMMER

THE REEF

THE MARNE

FRENCH WAYS AND THEIR MEANING

OLD NEW YORK
THE OLD MAID

(The ’Fifties)

BY

EDITH WHARTON
AUTHOR OF “THE AGE OF INNOCENCE,” ETC.

DECORATIONS BY E. C. CASWELL





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COPYRIGHT, 1924, BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

Copyright, 1922, by The Consolidated Magazines Corporation
(The Red Book Magazine)

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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THE OLD MAID
(The ’Fifties)

PART I

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THE OLD MAID

(The ’Fifties)

I

IN the old New York of the ’fifties a few families ruled, in simplicityand affluence. Of these were the Ralstons.

The sturdy English and the rubicund and heavier Dutch had mingled toproduce a prosperous, prudent and yet lavish society. To “do thingshandsomely” had always been a fundamental principle in this cautiousworld, built up on the fortunes of bankers, India merchants,shipbuilders and ship-chandlers. Those well-fed slow-moving people, whoseemed irritable and dyspeptic to European eyes{4} only because thecaprices of the climate had stripped them of superfluous flesh, andstrung their nerves a little tighter, lived in a genteel monotony ofwhich the surface was never stirred by the dumb dramas now and thenenacted unde

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