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Updated: June 29, 2025

Finally, if Doctor Lombard were vindictive enough to refuse his consent to her marriage, she had only to make a sommation respectueuse, and at the end of the prescribed delay no power on earth could prevent her becoming the wife of Count Ottaviano. Wyant's anger had fallen at the recital of this simple romance.

Edith Wharton - The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1

Lombard accepted in silence this remarkable statement of her views, and her husband, with a malicious smile at Wyant's embarrassment, planted himself suddenly before the young man. "And now," said he, "do you want to see my Leonardo?" "DO I?" cried Wyant, on his feet in a flash. The doctor chuckled.

Edith Wharton - The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1

And she could not bear to have Amherst's eyes rest on it, to have him know that any man had dared to write to her in that tone. What vile meanings might not be read between Wyant's phrases? She had a right to tell the story in her own way the true way....

Edith Wharton - The Fruit of the Tree