The Book ClassThe book class was started by twelve Manhattan debutantes in 1908. Over an elegant lunch they would meet to discuss a selected title, a custom they upheld monthly for over sixty years. They were intelligent and diverse women, wives and daughters of wealthy and powerful men, who themselves ran New York society. Without betraying their proper upbringing and perfect manners, their lives unfold, revealing intimate moments of turmoil far greater than anything they ever read about. --Book jacket. |
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Page 117
... George Washburn and from Tony Meiksel ; the second had been such a horror that she could not endure to bear his label , and it would have seemed quixotic to resume that of his discarded predecessor . But , logical as her choice may have ...
... George Washburn and from Tony Meiksel ; the second had been such a horror that she could not endure to bear his label , and it would have seemed quixotic to resume that of his discarded predecessor . But , logical as her choice may have ...
Page 124
... George Washburn ? " " My family simply considered him the catch of catches . " Leila's eyes seemed to reach nostalgically into the past . " No Lee female had ever aimed so high . And he didn't have to be caught , either . He wanted ...
... George Washburn ? " " My family simply considered him the catch of catches . " Leila's eyes seemed to reach nostalgically into the past . " No Lee female had ever aimed so high . And he didn't have to be caught , either . He wanted ...
Page 125
... George Washburn , ask her if it wasn't possible that he might be just a bit stupid , if he wasn't certainly more than a bit stuffy , she would say , oh , no more than your cousin Ted or than Bill So - and - So or than this man or that ...
... George Washburn , ask her if it wasn't possible that he might be just a bit stupid , if he wasn't certainly more than a bit stuffy , she would say , oh , no more than your cousin Ted or than Bill So - and - So or than this man or that ...
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