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      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       VI

       VII

       VIII

       BOOK II

       IX

       X

       XI

       XII

       XIII

       XIV

       XV

       XVI

       XVII

       XVIII

       BOOK III

       XIX

       XX

       XXI

       XXII

       XXIII

       XXIV

       XXV

       XXVI

       XXVII

       XXVIII

       XXIX

       BOOK IV

       XXX

       XXXI

       XXXII

       XXXIII

       XXXIV

       XXXV

       XXXVI

       XXXVII

       XXXVIII

       XXXIX

       XL

       XLI

       XLII

       XLIII

       BOOKS BY EDITH WHARTON

       The House of Mirth

       Madame de Treymes

       BOOKS BY EDITH WHARTON

       The Greater Inclination

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      In the surgical ward of the Hope Hospital at Hanaford, a nurse was bending over a young man whose bandaged right hand and arm lay stretched along the bed.

      His head stirred uneasily, and slipping her arm behind him she effected a professional readjustment of the pillows. "Is that better?"

      As she leaned over, he lifted his anxious bewildered eyes, deep-sunk under ridges of suffering. "I don't s'pose there's any kind of a show for me, is there?" he asked, pointing with his free hand—the stained seamed hand of the mechanic—to the inert bundle on the quilt.

      Her only immediate answer was to wipe the dampness from his forehead; then she said: "We'll talk about that to-morrow."

      "Why not now?"

      "Because Dr. Disbrow can't

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