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1  It's really absurd of Alice Wetherall to make such a fuss about meeting her, when one thinks of what society is coming to.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
2  It's all very well to say that every body with money can get into society; but it would be truer to say that NEARLY everybody can.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
3  Mrs. Fisher's measures had been well-taken, and society, surprised in a dull moment, succumbed to the temptation of Mrs. Bry's hospitality.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
4  That is certainly the sane view; but the queer thing about society is that the people who regard it as an end are those who are in it, and not the critics on the fence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
5  The Brys, intoxicated by their first success, already thirsted for new kingdoms, and Mrs. Fisher, viewing the Riviera as an easy introduction to London society, had guided their course thither.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
6  Everything, accordingly, was well done, for there was no limit to Mrs. Fisher's prodigality when she was not spending her own money, and as she remarked to her pupil, a good cook was the best introduction to society.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
7  But society, amused for a while at playing Cinderella, soon wearied of the hearthside role, and welcomed the Fairy Godmother in the shape of any magician powerful enough to turn the shrunken pumpkin back again into the golden coach.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
8  Lily knew that there is nothing society resents so much as having given its protection to those who have not known how to profit by it: it is for having betrayed its connivance that the body social punishes the offender who is found out.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
9  If the company was not as select as the CUISINE, the Welly Brys at least had the satisfaction of figuring for the first time in the society columns in company with one or two noticeable names; and foremost among these was of course Miss Bart's.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
10  Mr. Simon Rosedale was a man who made it his business to know everything about every one, whose idea of showing himself to be at home in society was to display an inconvenient familiarity with the habits of those with whom he wished to be thought intimate.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
11  But he thought it a very materialistic society; there were times when he was frightened by the talk of the men and the looks of the ladies, and he was glad to find that Miss Bart, for all her ease and self-possession, was not at home in so ambiguous an atmosphere.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
12  The Gormer MILIEU represented a social out-skirt which Lily had always fastidiously avoided; but it struck her, now that she was in it, as only a flamboyant copy of her own world, a caricature approximating the real thing as the "society play" approaches the manners of the drawing-room.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
13  Though she boasted an unequalled familiarity with the secret chronicles of society, she had the innocence of the school-girl who regards wickedness as a part of "history," and to whom it never occurs that the scandals she reads of in lesson-hours may be repeating themselves in the next street.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
14  To attack society collectively, when one's means of approach are limited to a few acquaintances, is like advancing into a strange country with an insufficient number of scouts; but such rash tactics have sometimes led to brilliant victories, and the Brys had determined to put their fate to the touch.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
15  The strident setting of the restaurant, in which their table seemed set apart in a special glare of publicity, and the presence at it of little Dabham of the "Riviera Notes," emphasized the ideals of a world where conspicuousness passed for distinction, and the society column had become the roll of fame.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
16  His reputed cultivation was generally regarded as a slight obstacle to easy intercourse, but Lily, who prided herself on her broad-minded recognition of literature, and always carried an Omar Khayam in her travelling-bag, was attracted by this attribute, which she felt would have had its distinction in an older society.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
17  There she had been sorely tempted to linger on in a society which asked of her only to amuse and charm it, without enquiring too curiously how she had acquired her gift for doing so; but Selden, before they parted, had pressed on her the urgent need of returning at once to her aunt, and Lord Hubert, when he presently reappeared in London, abounded in the same counsel.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
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