Both Uses of
prosperity
in
The Age of Innocence
- He felt, no doubt, more sorry for her than her indignant relatives; but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, even if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.†
Chpt 27 *
- He and his wife died there in the odour of prosperity; and one day their orphaned daughter had appeared in New York in charge of May Archer's sister-in-law, Mrs. Jack Welland, whose husband had been appointed the girl's guardian.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(prosperity) a state of doing well -- especially economically