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1  Silverton was in a mood of Titanic pessimism.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
2  Of Silverton's whereabouts there had been no mention.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
3  Bertha certainly HAD grown tiresome since she had taken to poetry and Ned Silverton.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
4  The moonlight touched them as they paused to enter the carriage, and he recognized Mrs. Dorset and young Silverton.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
5  The Silverton affair is in the acute stage: it's necessary that George's attention should be pretty continuously distracted.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
6  One fact alone outwardly proclaimed the change they were all conspiring to ignore; and that was the non-appearance of Ned Silverton.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
7  I hear she is interesting herself now in that silly Silverton boy, who has had his head turned by Carry Fisher, and has been gambling so dreadfully.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
8  Dorset, of late, had grown more than usually morose and incalculable, and Ned Silverton went about with an air that seemed to challenge the universe.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
9  On the Promenade des Anglais, where Ned Silverton hung on him for the half hour before dinner, he received a deeper impression of the general insecurity.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
10  Lily could remember when young Silverton had stumbled into their circle, with the air of a strayed Arcadian who has published charming sonnets in his college journal.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
11  All her concern had hitherto been for young Silverton, not only because, in such affairs, the woman's instinct is to side with the man, but because his case made a peculiar appeal to her sympathies.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
12  Mrs. Dorset was, in fact, engaged in a new sentimental experiment, of which Mrs. Fisher's late property, Ned Silverton, was the rosy victim; and at such moments, as Judy Trenor had once remarked, she felt a peculiar need of distracting her husband's attention.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
13  She was vaguely touched by the names and scenes amid which she moved, and had listened to Ned Silverton reading Theocritus by moonlight, as the yacht rounded the Sicilian promontories, with a thrill of the nerves that confirmed her belief in her intellectual superiority.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
14  Miss Bart, glowing with the haste of a precipitate descent upon the train, headed a group composed of the Dorsets, young Silverton and Lord Hubert Dacey, who had barely time to spring into the carriage, and envelop Selden in ejaculations of surprise and welcome, before the whistle of departure sounded.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
15  He saw instead, to his surprise, Ned Silverton loitering somewhat ostentatiously about the tables; and the discovery that this actor in the drama was not only hovering in the wings, but actually inviting the exposure of the footlights, though it might have seemed to imply that all peril was over, served rather to deepen Selden's sense of foreboding.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
16  She was "perfect" to every one: subservient to Bertha's anxious predominance, good-naturedly watchful of Dorset's moods, brightly companionable to Silverton and Dacey, the latter of whom met her on an evident footing of old admiration, while young Silverton, portentously self-absorbed, seemed conscious of her only as of something vaguely obstructive.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
17  She had seen the Wetheralls, the Trenor girls and Lady Cressida packed safely into the omnibus; Judy Trenor was sure to be having her hair shampooed; Carry Fisher had doubtless carried off her host for a drive; Ned Silverton was probably smoking the cigarette of young despair in his bedroom; and Kate Corby was certain to be playing tennis with Jack Stepney and Miss Van Osburgh.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
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