Madame De Treymes

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Title: Madame de Treymes

Author: Edith Wharton

Posting Date: August 8, 2009 [EBook #4518] Release Date: October, 2003 First Posted: January 29, 2002

Language: English

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MADAME DE TREYMES

BY

EDITH WHARTON

MADAME DE TREYMES

I

John Durham, while he waited for Madame de Malrive to draw on her gloves, stood in the hotel doorway looking out across the Rue de Rivoli at the afternoon brightness of the Tuileries gardens.

His European visits were infrequent enough to have kept unimpaired the freshness of his eye, and he was always struck anew by the vast and consummately ordered spectacle of Paris: by its look of having been boldly and deliberately planned as a background for the enjoyment of life, instead of being forced into grudging concessions to the festive instincts, or barricading itself against them in unenlightened ugliness, like his own lamentable New York.

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