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1  Her next question was not of a nature to enlighten him.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
2  She understood well enough the nature of the task before her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
3  Lily had no intention of taking advantage of her aunt's good nature.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
4  The worst of it is that so much human nature is used up in the process.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
5  Where duty and inclination jumped together, it was not in Lily's nature to hold them asunder.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
6  Her soft nature recoiled from this ordeal, which had none of the stimulus of conflict to goad her through it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
7  Lily's nature was incapable of such renewal: she could feel other demands only through her own, and no pain was long vivid which did not press on an answering nerve.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
8  Lily had no real intimacy with nature, but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which was the fitting background of her own sensations.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
9  As to the nature of Selden's growing kindness, Gerty would no more have dared to define it than she would have tried to learn a butterfly's colours by knocking the dust from its wings.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
10  The change had been produced by the look in her eyes; and in his eagerness to define the nature of that look, he dropped into a seat in the gardens, and sat brooding upon the question.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
11  What he could not accept, in his own case, was the makeshift alternative of a relation that should be less than this: that should leave some portions of his nature unsatisfied, while it put an undue strain on others.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
12  The collective nature of her interests exempted her from the ordinary rivalries of her sex, and she knew no more personal emotion than that of hatred for the woman who presumed to give bigger dinners or have more amusing house-parties than herself.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
13  But Lily had known the species before: she was aware that such a guarded nature must find one huge outlet of egoism, and she determined to be to him what his Americana had hitherto been: the one possession in which he took sufficient pride to spend money on it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
14  Every form of prudence and suspicion had been grafted on a nature originally reluctant and cautious, with the result that it would have seemed hardly needful for Mrs. Gryce to extract his promise about the overshoes, so little likely was he to hazard himself abroad in the rain.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
15  For a day or two after Rosedale's visit, Lily's thoughts were dogged by the consciousness of Trenor's shadowy claim, and she wished she had a clearer notion of the exact nature of the transaction which seemed to have put her in his power; but her mind shrank from any unusual application, and she was always helplessly puzzled by figures.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
16  As her social talents, backed by Mr. Trenor's bank-account, almost always assured her ultimate triumph in such competitions, success had developed in her an unscrupulous good nature toward the rest of her sex, and in Miss Bart's utilitarian classification of her friends, Mrs. Trenor ranked as the woman who was least likely to "go back" on her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
17  From where she stood she could see them embodied in the form of Mr. Gryce, who, in a light overcoat and muffler, sat somewhat nervously on the edge of his chair, while Carry Fisher, with all the energy of eye and gesture with which nature and art had combined to endow her, pressed on him the duty of taking part in the task of municipal reform.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
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