Matt’s Reviews > The Age of Innocence > Status Update

…the house was built in a ghastly greenish-yellow stone that the younger architects were beginning to employ as a protest against the brownstone of which the uniform hue coated New York like a cold chocolate sauce…

What can you expect of a girl who was allowed to wear black satin at her coming out ball?

Don’t wait until the bubbles have gone off the wine.

A handsome fellow, but with eyes with an awful lot of lashes…