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"
Really
,
Mrs.
Cowperwood
,
"
he
said
,
"
it
is
all
most
charming
.
I
was
just
telling
Mr.
Lord
here
that
I
consider
the
house
a
triumph
.
"
From
McKibben
,
who
was
in
society
,
and
with
Lord
,
another
"
in
"
standing
by
,
this
was
like
wine
to
Aileen
.
She
beamed
joyously
.
Among
the
first
arrivals
were
Mrs.
Webster
Israels
,
Mrs.
Bradford
Canda
,
and
Mrs.
Walter
Rysam
Cotton
,
who
were
to
assist
in
receiving
.
These
ladies
did
not
know
that
they
were
taking
their
future
reputations
for
sagacity
and
discrimination
in
their
hands
;
they
had
been
carried
away
by
the
show
of
luxury
of
Aileen
,
the
growing
financial
repute
of
Cowperwood
,
and
the
artistic
qualities
of
the
new
house
.
Mrs.
Webster
Israels
's
mouth
was
of
such
a
peculiar
shape
that
Aileen
was
always
reminded
of
a
fish
;
but
she
was
not
utterly
homely
,
and
to-day
she
looked
brisk
and
attractive
.
Mrs.
Bradford
Canda
,
whose
old
rose
and
silver-gray
dress
made
up
in
part
for
an
amazing
angularity
,
but
who
was
charming
withal
,
was
the
soul
of
interest
,
for
she
believed
this
to
be
a
very
significant
affair
.
Mrs.
Walter
Rysam
Cotton
,
a
younger
woman
than
either
of
the
others
,
had
the
polish
of
Vassar
life
about
her
,
and
was
"
above
"
many
things
.
Somehow
she
half
suspected
the
Cowperwoods
might
not
do
,
but
they
were
making
strides
,
and
might
possibly
surpass
all
other
aspirants
.
It
behooved
her
to
be
pleasant
.
Life
passes
from
individuality
and
separateness
at
times
to
a
sort
of
Monticelliesque
mood
of
color
,
where
individuality
is
nothing
,
the
glittering
totality
all
.
The
new
house
,
with
its
charming
French
windows
on
the
ground
floor
,
its
heavy
bands
of
stone
flowers
and
deep-sunk
florated
door
,
was
soon
crowded
with
a
moving
,
colorful
flow
of
people
.
Many
whom
Aileen
and
Cowperwood
did
not
know
at
all
had
been
invited
by
McKibben
and
Lord
;
they
came
,
and
were
now
introduced
.
The
adjacent
side
streets
and
the
open
space
in
front
of
the
house
were
crowded
with
champing
horses
and
smartly
veneered
carriages
.
All
with
whom
the
Cowperwoods
had
been
the
least
intimate
came
early
,
and
,
finding
the
scene
colorful
and
interesting
,
they
remained
for
some
time
.
The
caterer
,
Kinsley
,
had
supplied
a
small
army
of
trained
servants
who
were
posted
like
soldiers
,
and
carefully
supervised
by
the
Cowperwood
butler
.
The
new
dining-room
,
rich
with
a
Pompeian
scheme
of
color
,
was
aglow
with
a
wealth
of
glass
and
an
artistic
arrangement
of
delicacies
.
The
afternoon
costumes
of
the
women
,
ranging
through
autumnal
grays
,
purples
,
browns
,
and
greens
,
blended
effectively
with
the
brown-tinted
walls
of
the
entry-hall
,
the
deep
gray
and
gold
of
the
general
living-room
,
the
old-Roman
red
of
the
dining-room
,
the
white-and-gold
of
the
music-room
,
and
the
neutral
sepia
of
the
art-gallery
.
Aileen
,
backed
by
the
courageous
presence
of
Cowperwood
,
who
,
in
the
dining-room
,
the
library
,
and
the
art-gallery
,
was
holding
a
private
levee
of
men
,
stood
up
in
her
vain
beauty
,
a
thing
to
see
--
almost
to
weep
over
,
embodying
the
vanity
of
all
seeming
things
,
the
mockery
of
having
and
yet
not
having
.
This
parading
throng
that
was
more
curious
than
interested
,
more
jealous
than
sympathetic
,
more
critical
than
kind
,
was
coming
almost
solely
to
observe
.
"
Do
you
know
,
Mrs.
Cowperwood
,
"
Mrs.
Simms
remarked
,
lightly
,
"
your
house
reminds
me
of
an
art
exhibit
to-day
.
I
hardly
know
why
.
"
Aileen
,
who
caught
the
implied
slur
,
had
no
clever
words
wherewith
to
reply
.
She
was
not
gifted
in
that
way
,
but
she
flared
with
resentment
.
