Chapter 12 quotes Flashcards
‘Old-fashioned New York dined at seven…
…and the habit of after-dinner calls derided Archer’s set still generally prevailed’
‘It was not an opera…
…night and no one was giving a party so that Beaufort’s outing was undoubtedly of clandestine nature’
‘Literature and art were…
…deeply respected in the Archer set, and Mrs Archer was always of pairs to tell her children how much more agreeable and cultivated society’
‘but such things were inconceivable…
… in New York and unsettling to think of’
‘entered the drawing room with…
…a dogged determination to make Beaufort feel himself in the way and to out-stay him’
’ “Painters? Are there…
…painters in New York?” asked Beaufort, in a tone implying there could be non since he did not buy their pictures’
‘He bent down and laid…
…his lips on her hands which were cold and lifeless’
‘when her wooer …
…turned from her she rested her arms against the mantle-shelf and she bowed her face in her hands. On the threshold he paused to look at her; there he stole back, lifted the end of the velvet ribbon, kissed it’
