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The Old Wives' Tale
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1908
- Pages
- Pages 630
Two sisters grow up above their father's draper shop in a small English town, one stays and lives a careful, ordinary life, the other elopes to Paris and is abandoned there, and decades later, much changed, they grow old again side by side.
What affected her was that he had once been young, and that he had grown old, and was now dead. That was all.
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