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He was at Mr. Letterblair’s promptly at seven, happy of the affection for pardoning himself not long after supper. He had framed his own assessment from the papers depended to him, and didn’t particularly need to go into the matter with his senior accomplice. Mr. Letterblair was a single man, and they ate alone, bountifully and gradually, in a dull pitiful room hung with yellowing prints of “The Death of Chatham” and “The Coronation of Napoleon.” On the sideboard, between fluted Sheraton blade cases, stood a decanter of Haut Brion, and one more of the old Lanning port (the endowment of a customer), which the wastrel Tom Lanning had auctions off a little while before his strange and discreditable demise in San Francisco- – an occurrence less freely embarrassing to the family than the offer of the basement. Horse while on this ride called life you have to take the good with the bad canvas After a smooth clam soup came shad and cucumbers, at that point a youthful seared turkey with corn wastes, trailed by a material back with currant jam and a celery mayonnaise. Mr. Letterblair, who dined on a sandwich and tea, feasted purposely and profoundly, and demanded his visitor’s doing likewise. At last, when the end rituals had been cultivated, the fabric was taken out, stogies were lit, and Mr. Letterblair, reclining in his seat and pushing the port toward the west, said, spreading his back pleasingly to the coal fire behind him: “The entire family are against a separation. What’s more, I think properly.

Toxophilite in a split second felt himself on the opposite side of the contention. “In any case, why, sir? On the off chance that there at any point was a case- – ” “Well- – what’s the utilization? SHE’S here- – he’s there; the Atlantic’s between them. She’ll never get back a dollar a greater amount of her cash than what he’s willfully gotten back to her: their cursed rapscallion marriage repayments take valuable great consideration of that. As things go over yonder, Olenski’s acted liberally: he may have turned her out without a penny.” The young fellow knew this and was quiet. “I see, however,” Mr. Letterblair proceeded, “that she joins no significance to the cash. In this way, as the family say, why not chose not take any other potentially detrimental action?” Toxophilite had gone to the house an hour sooner in full concurrence with Mr. Letterblair’s view; yet put words to by this childish, very much took care of and remarkably detached elderly person it abruptly turned into the Pharisaic voice of a general public entirely retained in blockading itself against the horrendous. “I feel that is for her to choose.” Old-fashioned New York dined at seven, and the habit of after-dinner calls, though derided in Archer’s set, still generally prevailed. As the young man strolled up Fifth Avenue from Waverley Place, the long thoroughfare was deserted but for a group of carriages standing before the Reggie Chiverses’ (where there was a dinner for the Duke), and the occasional figure of an elderly gentleman in heavy overcoat and muffler ascending a brownstone doorstep and disappearing into a gas-lit hall. Thus, as Archer crossed Washington Square, he remarked that old Mr. du Lac was calling on his cousins the Dagonets, and turning down the corner of West Tenth Street he saw Mr. Skipworth, of his own firm, obviously bound on a visit to the Miss Lannings. A little farther up Fifth Avenue, Beaufort appeared on his doorstep, darkly projected against a blaze of light, descended to his private brougham, and rolled away to a mysterious and probably unmentionable destination. It was not an Opera night, and no one was giving a party, so that Beaufort’s outing was undoubtedly of a clandestine nature. Archer connected it in his mind with a little house beyond Lexington Avenue in which beribboned window curtains and flower-boxes had recently appeared, and before whose newly painted door the canary-coloured brougham of Miss Fanny Ring was frequently seen to wait.