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Sister Carrie

CHAPTER XXXII
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It was so that the rich spent their days and evenings.

Her poor little mind could not rise above applying each scene to all society.

Every fine lady must be in the crowd on Broadway in the afternoon, in the theatre at the matinee, in the coaches and dining-halls at night.

It must be glow and shine everywhere, with coaches waiting, and footmen attending, and she was out of it all.
In two long years she had never even been in such a place as this.
Vance was in his element here, as Hurstwood would have been in former days.

He ordered freely of soup, oysters, roast meats, and side dishes, and had several bottles of wine brought, which were set down beside the table in a wicker basket.
Ames was looking away rather abstractedly at the crowd and showed an interesting profile to Carrie.


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