Edith Wharton quote about change from The Age of Innocence - It surprised him that life should be going on in the old way when his own reactions to it had so completely changed.
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It surprised him that life should be going on in the old way when his own reactions to it had so completely changed.
 Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (1920). copy citation

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Author Edith Wharton
Source The Age of Innocence
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Date 1920
Language English
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Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/541/541-h/541-h.htm

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“The sport, which had hitherto known no rival but croquet, was beginning to be discarded in favour of lawn-tennis; but the latter game was still considered too rough and inelegant for social occasions, and as an opportunity to show off pretty dresses and graceful attitudes the bow and arrow held their own.
Archer looked down with wonder at the familiar spectacle. It surprised him that life should be going on in the old way when his own reactions to it had so completely changed. It was Newport that had first brought home to him the extent of the change. In New York, during the previous winter, after he and May had settled down in the new greenish-yellow house with the bow-window and the Pompeian vestibule, he had dropped back with relief into the old routine of the office, and the renewal of this daily activity had served as a link with his former self.” source

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