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Twilight Sleep Chapter 15

In which Manford, ruminating on the emptiness behind the bustling façades of New York society, contemplates his fraught connection with Lita and the complicated entanglements of family duty and personal disillusionment. The atmosphere is one of quiet desperation mingled with a sober resolve to intervene wisely, even as the restless currents of ambition and artistic folly swirl around him.

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In which Manford, ruminating on the emptiness behind the bustling façades of New York society, contemplates his fraught connection with Lita and the complicated entanglements of family duty and personal disillusionment. The atmosphere is one of quiet desperation mingled with a sober resolve to intervene wisely, even as the restless currents of ambition and artistic folly swirl around him.

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