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1 The baby had sunk back blissfully replete, and Mrs. Struther softly rose to lay the bottle aside.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
2 Nettie Struther, with a startled exclamation, sat down and slipped a shabbily-clad arm behind her back.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
3 But Nettie Struther's frail envelope was now alive with hope and energy: whatever fate the future reserved for her, she would not be cast into the refuse-heap without a struggle.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
4 It WAS warm in the kitchen, which, when Nettie Struther's match had made a flame leap from the gas-jet above the table, revealed itself to Lily as extraordinarily small and almost miraculously clean.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
5 All the men and women she knew were like atoms whirling away from each other in some wild centrifugal dance: her first glimpse of the continuity of life had come to her that evening in Nettie Struther's kitchen.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
6 As she held Nettie Struther's child in her arms the frozen currents of youth had loosed themselves and run warm in her veins: the old life-hunger possessed her, and all her being clamoured for its share of personal happiness.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
7 On receiving Lily's assurance that she much preferred the friendly proximity of the kitchen fire, Mrs. Struther proceeded to prepare a bottle of infantile food, which she tenderly applied to the baby's impatient lips; and while the ensuing degustation went on, she seated herself with a beaming countenance beside her visitor.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 13