Since then he had been walking with a ghost: the miserable ghost of his illusion. Only he had somehow vivified, coloured, substantiated it, by the force of his own great need as a man might breathe a semblance of life into a dear drowned body that he cannot give up for dead.
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Edith Wharton was a 19th-century American writer and designer. Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. Read more on Wikipedia →