Madame de Treymes

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Edith Wharton

Madame de Treymes

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Durham’s smile once more faded to impersonality, as he rejoined, just a shade on the defensive: “If it’s merely our Americanism you enjoyed–I’ve no doubt we can give you all you want in that line.”

“Yes, it’s just that! But if you knew what the word means to me! It means–it means–” she paused as if to assure herself that they were sufficiently isolated from the desultory groups beneath the other trees–”it means that I’m safe with them: as safe as in a bank!”

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