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1  Her friend threw out an arresting hand.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
2  She laid a deprecating hand on her friend's.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
3  OH, LILY, DO GO SLOWLY, her friend adjured her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
4  "You don't know how much I need such a friend," she said.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
5  She is the best friend I have, and that is why I mind having to vex her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
6  In this strain Mrs. Trenor continued for nearly an hour to admonish her friend.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
7  "It was simply inhuman of Pragg to go off now," Mrs. Trenor declared, as her friend seated herself at the desk.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
8  In this mood of self-approval she had a sympathetic eye for others, and she was struck by her friend's air of dejection.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
9  Miss Bart, on her way to the station, had leisure to muse over her friend's words, and their peculiar application to herself.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
10  The young lady who thus formulated her admiration of her brilliant friend did not, in her own person, suggest such happy possibilities.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
11  "Well, I've seen a good deal less of you since we've got to be such pals than I used to when you were Judy's friend," he continued with unconscious penetration.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
12  She believed in the sincerity of her friend's affection, though it sometimes showed itself in self-interested ways, and she shrank with peculiar reluctance from any risk of estranging it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
13  But this characteristic command seemed to reestablish their former relations; and Lily smiled at the thought that her friend had probably summoned her in order to hear about the Brys' entertainment.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
14  While her friend reproached her for missing the opportunity to eclipse her rivals, she was once more battling in imagination with the mounting tide of indebtedness from which she had so nearly escaped.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
15  Presented in the light of Mrs. Trenor's vigorous comments, the reckoning was certainly a formidable one, and Lily, as she listened, found herself gradually reverting to her friend's view of the situation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
16  "Not that I ought to complain to-day, though," he went on after a moment, "for I did a very neat stroke of business, thanks to Stepney's friend Rosedale: by the way, Miss Lily, I wish you'd try to persuade Judy to be decently civil to that chap."
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
17  She could not, indeed, imagine herself, in any extremity, stooping to extract a "tip" from Mr. Rosedale; but at her side was a man in possession of that precious commodity, and who, as the husband of her dearest friend, stood to her in a relation of almost fraternal intimacy.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
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