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House of Mirth

CHAPTER 4
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I did mean to ask the Wetheralls--that was a blunder of Gus's.

They disapprove of Carry Fisher, you know.

As if one could help having Carry Fisher! It WAS foolish of her to get that second divorce--Carry always overdoes things--but she said the only way to get a penny out of Fisher was to divorce him and make him pay alimony.
And poor Carry has to consider every dollar.

It's really absurd of Alice Wetherall to make such a fuss about meeting her, when one thinks of what society is coming to.

Some one said the other day that there was a divorce and a case of appendicitis in every family one knows.


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