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An elderly narrator and his companion pass a sweltering afternoon in a fashionable resort park and register the scene: band music, mineral springs, a kiosk, and promenading visitors. His attention fixes on a beautiful young woman in white and on a middle-aged couple beside her, prompting reflections about age, social position and the possibility of a second marriage. Small episodes—a scolding mother and dirty child, timid deer and overfed trout—provide contrasts that sharpen the narrator’s pity, irony and speculative imagination. The piece unfolds as a series of close, observant vignettes about manners, class distinctions and the quiet tensions beneath resort society.

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Title: An Open-Eyed Conspiracy; An Idyl of Saratoga

Author: William Dean Howells

Release date: February 1, 2002 [eBook #3051]
Most recently updated: June 28, 2021

Language: English

Credits: David Price

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AN OPEN-EYED
CONSPIRACY

AN IDYL OF SARATOGA

 

BY
W. D. HOWELLS

Author’s Edition

 

EDINBURGH
DAVID DOUGLAS, CASTLE STREET
1898

 

Edinburgh: Printed by T. and A. Constable for
David Douglas
London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co.