Edith Wharton’s Age of Innocence, chapters 3–4, with many thanks to our reader, Brenda Dayne.

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Literary Links of interest for this chapter:

• The Bouguereau art
• The Caravaggio art
• Aigrettes
• Cabbage Rose carpet design
• Second Empire
• The Tuileries
• Portière

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