Page 2 in Wharton's The House of Mirth : "It isn't a bit hotter here than in Mrs. Van Osburgh's conservatory- and some of the women are not a bit uglier"
Could someone please tell me what this means?
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This is a long shot, but back in the early 1990's my father would rent a massive load of audiobooks from the library, and didn't care how old I was, and listened anyway on his way to work. Anyway, one of the first I remember was a story about a German or European immigrant in 19th Century New Yor...
