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Sanctuary
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Title: Sanctuary
Author: Edith Wharton
Release Date: February, 2005 [EBook #7517] [This file was first posted on May 13, 2003]
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Language: English
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SANCTUARY
BY
EDITH WHARTON
PART I
It is not often that youth allows itself to feel undividedly happy: the sensation is too much the result of selection and elimination to be within reach of the awakening clutch on life. But Kate Orme, for once, had yielded herself to happiness; letting it permeate every faculty as a spring rain soaks into a germinating meadow. There was nothing to