CHAPTER I,II,III,IV,V,
VI,VII.
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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

NEW YEAR’S DAY

(The ’Seventies)
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, 1923, by The Consolidated Magazines Corporation
(The Red Book Magazine)

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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NEW YEAR’S DAY
(The ’Seventies)
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NEW YEAR’S DAY
(The ’Seventies)
I
“SHE was bad ... always. They used to meet at the Fifth Avenue Hotel,”said my mother, as if the scene of the offence added to the guilt of thecouple whose past she was revealing. Her spectacles slanted on herknitting, she dropped the words in a hiss that might have singed thesnowy baby-blanket which engaged her indefatigable fingers. (It wastypical of my mother to be always employed in benevolent actions whileshe uttered uncharitable words.){4}
“They used to meet at the Fifth Avenue Hotel”; how the precision ofthe phrase characterized my old New York! A generation later, peoplewould have said, in reporting an affair such as Lizzie Hazeldean’s withHenry Prest: “They met in hotels”—and today who but a few superannuatedspinsters, still feeding on the venom secreted in their youth, wouldtake any interest in the tracing of such topographies?
Life has become too telegraphic for curiosity to linger on any givenpoint in a sentimental relation; as old Sillerton Jackson, in responseto my mother, grumbled through his perfect “china set”: “Fifth AvenueHotel? They might meet in the mid                        
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