The Glimpses of the Moon

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Title: The Glimpses of the Moon

Author: Edith Wharton

Posting Date: September 15, 2008 [EBook #1263] Release Date: April, 1998

Language: English

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THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON

By Edith Wharton

PART I

I

IT rose for them—their honeymoon—over the waters of a lake so famed as the scene of romantic raptures that they were rather proud of not having been afraid to choose it as the setting of their own.

“It required a total lack of humour, or as great a gift for it as ours, to risk the experiment,” Susy Lansing opined, as they hung over the inevitable marble balustrade and watched their tutelary orb roll its magic carpet across the waters to their feet.

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