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THE SPARK I,II,III,IV,V

OLD NEW YORK

 
THE SPARK

(The ’Sixties)


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
THE SPARK

(The ’Sixties)

BY

EDITH WHARTON

AUTHOR OF “THE AGE OF INNOCENCE,” ETC.

DECORATIONS BY E. C. CASWELL



D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORK :: LONDON :: MCMXXIV
COPYRIGHT, 1924, BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

Copyright, 1924, by The Curtis Publishing Company

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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THE SPARK
(The ’Sixties)

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THE SPARK

(The ’Sixties)

I

“YOU idiot!” said his wife, and threw down her cards.

I turned my head away quickly, to avoid seeing Hayley Delane’s face;though why I wished to avoid it I could not have told you, much less whyI should have imagined (if I did) that a man of his age and importancewould notice what was happening to the wholly negligible features of ayouth like myself.

I turned away so that he should not see how it hurt me to hear himcalled an idiot, even in joke—well, at least half in joke;{4} yet I oftenthought him an idiot myself, and bad as my own poker was, I knew enoughof the game to judge that his—when he wasn’t attending—fully justifiedsuch an outburst from his wife. Why her sally disturbed me I couldn’thave said; nor why, when it was greeted by a shrill guffaw from her“latest,” young Bolton Byrne, I itched to cuff the little bounder; norwhy, when Hayley Delane, on whom banter always dawned slowly butcertainly, at length gave forth his low rich gurgle of appreciation—whythen, most of all, I wanted to blot the whole scene from my memory. Why?

There they sat, as I had so often seen them, in Jack Alstrop’s luxuriousbookless library (I’m sure the rich rows behind the glass doo

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