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1  The legacy, then, had been paid sooner than Gerty had led him to expect.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
2  I guess the Duchess goes where it's cheapest, unless she can get her meal paid for.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
3  But if you have run into debt, you must suffer the consequences, and put aside your monthly income till your bills are paid.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
4  But the attempt had hitherto been vain, and as Rosedale undoubtedly paid for the dinners, the laugh remained with his debtor.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
5  I have paid my card debts, of course, but there is hardly anything left for my other expenses, and if I go on with my present life I shall be in horrible difficulties.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
6  But gradually the captive's gasps grew fainter, or the other paid less heed to them: the horizon expanded, the air grew stronger, and the free spirit quivered for flight.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
7  There were a thousand chances to one against her meeting anybody, but one could never tell, and she always paid for her rare indiscretions by a violent reaction of prudence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
8  Regina's would enable her, when Mrs. Peniston's legacy was paid, to realize the vision of the green-and-white shop with the fuller competence acquired by her preliminary training.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
9  In her ignorance of legal procrastinations she had supposed that her legacy would be paid over within a few days of the reading of her aunt's will; and after an interval of anxious suspense, she wrote to enquire the cause of the delay.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
10  He was a coarse dull man who, under all his show of authority, was a mere supernumerary in the costly show for which his money paid: surely, to a clever girl, it would be easy to hold him by his vanity, and so keep the obligation on his side.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
11  If Lily's poetic enjoyment of the moment was undisturbed by the base thought that her gown and opera cloak had been indirectly paid for by Gus Trenor, the latter had not sufficient poetry in his composition to lose sight of these prosaic facts.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
12  If these people paid court to her it proved that she was still conspicuous in the world to which they aspired; and she was not above a certain enjoyment in dazzling them by her fineness, in developing their puzzled perception of her superiorities.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
13  Their own faces were sallow with the unwholesomeness of hot air and sedentary toil, rather than with any actual signs of want: they were employed in a fashionable millinery establishment, and were fairly well clothed and well paid; but the youngest among them was as dull and colourless as the middle-aged.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10