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Wharton's Roman Fever.(Edith Wharton)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20070101
Author:Selina, Jamil S.

 
    Half-guiltily she [Mrs. Grace Ansley] drew from her [...] black 
    handbag a twist of crimson silk run through by two fine knitting 
    needles. "One never knows," she murmured. (47)

These lines, quoted from Edith Wharton's "Roman Fever," refer to one of the two protagonists, Mrs. Grace Ansley, whose daughter, Barbara, facetiously accuses her and Mrs. Slade, the other protagonist, of being "young things" who must be left behind to "their knitting" (47). At her friend Barbara's flippant accusation, Mrs. Slade's daughter, Jenny, politely demurs, but the former retorts, ...

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