Italics are marked with underscores, like _this_, oe ligatures have been changed to 'oe'. The original hyphenation was preserved even when inconsistent, obvious typos have been fixed. Though there is no life that I know more intimately and none that I have known for so long a period as that of New York, the present story is the first in which I have essayed to depict phases of the complex society of the metropolis. I use the word society in its general, not in its narrow sense, for in no country has the merely "society novel" less reason for being than in ours.…
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