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His mother, with less than her usual sensitiveness to atht that people like the Countess Olenska, who have lived in aristocratic societies, ought to help us to keep up our social distinctions, instead of ignoring them"

May's blush renificance beyond that inition of Madame Olenska's social bad faith

"I've no doubt we all seeners," said Miss Jackson tartly

"I don't think Ellen cares for society; but nobody knows exactly what she does care for," May continued, as if she had been groping for soain

Everybody knew that the Countess Olenska was no longer in the good graces of her faott, had been unable to defend her refusal to return to her husband The Mingotts had not proclaimed their disapproval aloud: their sense of solidarity was too strong They had simply, as Mrs Welland said, "let poor Ellen find her own level"--and that, ly and incomprehensibly, was in the dim depths where the Blenkers prevailed, and "people rote" celebrated their untidy rites It was incredible, but it was a fact, that Ellen, in spite of all her opportunities and her privileges, had become simply "Bohemian" The fact enforced the contention that she hadto Count Olenski After all, a young woman's place was under her husband's roof, especially when she had left it in circumstances thatwellif one had cared to look into theentle to put forth so a dart

"Ah, that's the danger that a young woman like Madareed; and the ladies, on this conclusion, gathered up their trains to seek the carcel globes of the drawing-room, while Archer and Mr Sillerton Jackson withdrew to the Gothic library

Once established before the grate, and consoling himself for the inadequacy of the dinner by the perfection of his cigar, Mr Jackson became portentous and communicable

"If the Beaufort s to be disclosures"

Archer raised his head quickly: he could never hear the naure, opulently furred and shod, advancing through the snow at Skuytercliff

"There's bound to be," Mr Jackson continued, "the nastiest kind of a cleaning up He hasn't spent all his ina"

"Oh, well--that's discounted, isn't it? My belief is he'll pull out yet," said the young e the subject