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1  Or if she'd leave him alone, and let him arrange his life as he pleases.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
2  Mrs. Peniston was one of the episodical persons who form the padding of life.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
3  It was the last asset in their fortunes, the nucleus around which their life was to be rebuilt.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
4  He responded joyfully that to do so was his mission in life, and asked what form the rescue was to take.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
5  The dinginess of her present life threw into enchanting relief the existence to which she felt herself entitled.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
6  She would be able to arrange her life as she pleased, to soar into that empyrean of security where creditors cannot penetrate.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
7  To attempt to bring her into active relation with life was like tugging at a piece of furniture which has been screwed to the floor.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
8  He liked the ease and glitter of the life, and the lustre conferred on him by being a member of this group of rich and conspicuous people.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
9  She was beginning to have fits of angry rebellion against fate, when she longed to drop out of the race and make an independent life for herself.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
10  Lily had no mind for the vagabond life of the poor relation, and to adapt herself to Mrs. Peniston she had, to some degree, to assume that lady's passive attitude.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
11  They belonged to the vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
12  It was difficult to define her beyond saying that she seemed to exist only as a hostess, not so much from any exaggerated instinct of hospitality as because she could not sustain life except in a crowd.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
13  But dinginess is a quality which assumes all manner of disguises; and Lily soon found that it was as latent in the expensive routine of her aunt's life as in the makeshift existence of a continental pension.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
14  To guard against such contingencies she frequented the more populous watering-places, where she installed herself impersonally in a hired house and looked on at life through the matting screen of her verandah.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
15  There were moments when such scenes delighted Lily, when they gratified her sense of beauty and her craving for the external finish of life; there were others when they gave a sharper edge to the meagreness of her own opportunities.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
16  As he watched her hand, polished as a bit of old ivory, with its slender pink nails, and the sapphire bracelet slipping over her wrist, he was struck with the irony of suggesting to her such a life as his cousin Gertrude Farish had chosen.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
17  She had always been a looker-on at life, and her mind resembled one of those little mirrors which her Dutch ancestors were accustomed to affix to their upper windows, so that from the depths of an impenetrable domesticity they might see what was happening in the street.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
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