Edith Wharton quote: There were certain things that had to be done, and if done at all, done handsomely and thoroughly; and one ...

There were certain things that had to be done, and if done at all, done handsomely and thoroughly; and one of these, in the old New York code, was the tribal rally around a kinswoman about to be eliminated from the tribe.

~ Edith Wharton ~

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