:11:00
...the much-discussed nude
by Bouguereau...
:11:15
Archer enjoyed such challenges
to convention.
:11:19
He questioned conformity in private...
:11:21
...but in public he upheld
family and tradition.
:11:25
This was a world balanced
so precariously...
:11:28
...that its harmony could be
shattered by a whisper.
:11:53
On the whole, Archer was amused by
the smooth hypocrisies of his peers.
:11:58
He may even have envied them.
:12:01
Lawrence Lefferts, for instance...
:12:03
...was New York's foremost
authority on form.
:12:06
His opinion on pumps
versus patent-leather oxfords...
:12:10
...had never been disputed.
:12:12
On matters of surreptitious romance...
:12:15
...his skills went unquestioned.
:12:36
Old Mr. Sillerton Jackson was
as great an authority on family...
:12:41
...as Lawrence Lefferts was on form.
:12:44
The mean and melancholy history of
Countess Olenska's European marriage...
:12:49
...was a buried treasure
he hastened to excavate.
:12:53
He carried, like a calling card...
:12:55
...an entire register
of the scandals and mysteries...
:12:58
...that had smoldered under
the unruffled surface of society...