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FALSE DAWN PART I:I,II,III, PART II:IV,V,VI,VII,VIII,IX.

OLD NEW YORK

 
FALSE DAWN

(The ’Forties)


By EDITH WHARTON

OLD NEW YORK

False Dawn

The Old Maid

The Spark

New Year’s Day

THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE

SUMMER

THE REEF

THE MARNE

FRENCH WAYS AND THEIR MEANING

OLD NEW YORK
FALSE DAWN

(The ’Forties)

BY

EDITH WHARTON
AUTHOR OF “THE AGE OF INNOCENCE,” ETC.

DECORATIONS BY E. C. CASWELL





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Copyright, 1923, by The Curtis Publishing Company
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FALSE DAWN
(The ’Forties)

PART I

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FALSE DAWN

(The ’Forties)

I

HAY, verbena and mignonette scented the languid July day. Largestrawberries, crimsoning through sprigs of mint, floated in a bowl ofpale yellow cup on the verandah table: an old Georgian bowl, withcomplex reflections on polygonal flanks, engraved with the Raycie armsbetween lions’ heads. Now and again the gentlemen, warned by a menacinghum, slapped their cheeks, their brows or their bald crowns; but theydid so as furtively as possible, for Mr. Halston Raycie, on whoseverandah they sat,{4} would not admit that there were mosquitoes at HighPoint.

The strawberries came from Mr. Raycie’s kitchen garden; the Georgianbowl came from his great-grandfather (father of the Signer); theverandah was that of his country-house, which stood on a height abovethe Sound, at a convenient driving distance from his town house in CanalStreet.

“Another glass, Commodore,” said

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