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1  She felt, however, that it must be ended as promptly as possible.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
2  I'm sure the person who chose it must have taken particular pains.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
3  But even to her own conscience she must trump up a semblance of defence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
4  Ah, well, there must be plenty of capital on the look-out for such an investment.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
5  At any rate, she was amazingly pretty, and he had asked her to tea and must live up to his obligations.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
6  His smile deepened as he added with increasing assurance: "But you must let me take you to the station."
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
7  It must be pure bliss to arrange the furniture just as one likes, and give all the horrors to the ash-man.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
8  Only twenty dollars were left: the discovery was so startling that for a moment she fancied she must have been robbed.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
9  She saw that at all costs she must keep Mrs. Peniston's favour till, as Mrs. Bart would have phrased it, she could stand on her own legs.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
10  He had a confused sense that she must have cost a great deal to make, that a great many dull and ugly people must, in some mysterious way, have been sacrificed to produce her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
11  Lily, however, knew all about them: young Mr. Gryce's arrival had fluttered the maternal breasts of New York, and when a girl has no mother to palpitate for her she must needs be on the alert for herself.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
12  She turned away as she spoke, letting him strut at her side through the gathering groups on the terrace, while every nerve in her throbbed with the consciousness of what Selden must have thought of the scene.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
13  She paused a moment, and added in a lighter tone: "I didn't mean to bore you with all this, but I want your help in making Judy understand that I can't, at present, go on living as one must live among you all."
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
14  Of course I'm very glad to have him amused, but I happen to know that she has bled him rather severely since she's been here, and she is so keen about going to fetch him that I fancy she must have got a lot more bills this morning.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
15  But Lily had known the species before: she was aware that such a guarded nature must find one huge outlet of egoism, and she determined to be to him what his Americana had hitherto been: the one possession in which he took sufficient pride to spend money on it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
16  She tried to excuse herself on the plea that, in the Trenor set, if one played at all one must either play high or be set down as priggish or stingy; but she knew that the gambling passion was upon her, and that in her present surroundings there was small hope of resisting it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
17  Judy knew it must be "horrid" for poor Lily to have to stop to consider whether she could afford real lace on her petticoats, and not to have a motor-car and a steam-yacht at her orders; but the daily friction of unpaid bills, the daily nibble of small temptations to expenditure, were trials as far out of her experience as the domestic problems of the char-woman.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
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