...Edith Wharton A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...ocument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ... early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New Y ork. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remot... ...to; and the sentimental clung to it for its historic associations, and the musical for its excellent acous- tics, always so problematic a quality in h... ... tics, always so problematic a quality in halls built for the hear- ing of music. It was Madame Nilsson’s first appearance that winter, and what the d... ...hronged audiences in the old Opera-house on the Battery had taken ship for Cuba. But these mysteries, and many oth- ers, were closely locked in Mr. Ja... ..., and she continued: “My Ellen has taken me in for a few days. I came from Cuba, where I have been spend- ing the winter with Spanish friends—such del... ...a, there’s al- ways some one she wants to marry. But perhaps the people in Cuba just got tired of her! I think she was with them as a sort of paid com...

...Excerpt: On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House whi...