Raphael Madonna and Child with Book painting
Cole The Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch) painting
Bastida El bano del caballo [The Horse's Bath] painting
Hopper Ground Swell painting
It was on his lips to exclaim: ``My poor child -- far more harm than anywhere else!'' Instead, he answered, in a voice that sounded in his ears like Mr. Letterblair's: ``New York society is a very small world compared with the one you've lived in. And it's ruled, in spite of appearances, by a few people with -- well, rather old-fashioned ideas.''
She said nothing, and he continued: ``Our ideas about
-109-marriage and divorce are particularly old-fashioned. Our legislation favours divorce -- our social customs don't.''
``Never?''
``Well -- not if the woman, however injured, however irreproachable, has appearances in the least degree against her, has exposed herself by any unconventional action to -- to offensive insinuations -- ''
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