The fact that her immediate anxieties were relieved did not blind her to a possibility of their recurrence; it merely gave her enough buoyancy to rise once more above her doubts and feel a renewed faith in her beauty, her power, and her general fitness to attract a brilliant destiny.
Edith Wharton
House of Mirth, BOOK 1: Chapter 8
ContextHere was a man who turned to her in the extremity of his loneliness and his humiliation: if she came to him at such a moment he would be hers with all the force of his deluded faith.
Edith Wharton
House of Mirth, BOOK 2: Chapter 6
ContextThere remained to her, as she had told him, the uplifting memory of his faith in her; but she had not reached the age when a woman can live on her memories.
Edith Wharton
House of Mirth, BOOK 2: Chapter 13
ContextShe 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.
Edith Wharton
House of Mirth, BOOK 2: Chapter 2
ContextLily had taken it, at first with the confidence of assured possessorship, then with gradually narrowing demands, till now she found herself actually struggling for a foothold on the broad space which had once seemed her own for the asking.
Edith Wharton
House of Mirth, BOOK 1: Chapter 3
ContextShe felt herself once more the alert and competent moulder of emergencies, and the remembrance of her power over Selden flushed her with sudden confidence.
Edith Wharton
House of Mirth, BOOK 1: Chapter 15
ContextShe could not, however, deny herself the solace of taking anxious counsel with Lawrence Selden, with whom, since his return from Europe, she had renewed her old relation of cousinly confidence.
Edith Wharton
House of Mirth, BOOK 2: Chapter 8
ContextShe had learned by experience that she had neither the aptitude nor the moral constancy to remake her life on new lines; to become a worker among workers, and let the world of luxury and pleasure sweep by her unregarded.
Edith Wharton
House of Mirth, BOOK 2: Chapter 11
ContextMiss Bart, accordingly, rose the next morning with the most earnest conviction that it was her duty to go to church.
Edith Wharton
House of Mirth, BOOK 1: Chapter 5
ContextThus far, then, Lily felt that she had done well; and the conviction strengthened her for the task that remained.
Edith Wharton
House of Mirth, BOOK 2: Chapter 2
ContextBeat about the question as she would, she knew the outcome of it was that she must try to marry Rosedale; and in this conviction she was fortified by an unexpected visit from George Dorset.
Edith Wharton
House of Mirth, BOOK 2: Chapter 6
ContextThe dislike, indeed, still subsisted; but it was penetrated here and there by the perception of mitigating qualities in him: of a certain gross kindliness, a rather helpless fidelity of sentiment, which seemed to be struggling through the hard surface of his material ambitions.
Edith Wharton
House of Mirth, BOOK 2: Chapter 11
ContextShe could not put him before herself in any light but the noblest: she must trust him to the height of her own passion.
Edith Wharton
House of Mirth, BOOK 1: Chapter 14
ContextSince he would HAVE to pull Bertha through she could trust him to find a way; and she put the fulness of her trust in the telegram she managed to send him on her way to the quay.
Edith Wharton
House of Mirth, BOOK 2: Chapter 2
ContextWhat little there was must at any rate be husbanded to the utmost; she could not trust herself again to the perils of a sleepless night.
Edith Wharton
House of Mirth, BOOK 2: Chapter 10
ContextHe saw Jotham Powell walking up the hill through the morning mist, and the familiar sight added to his growing conviction of security.
Edith Wharton
He wanted to know the object of my inquiries, but I managed to satisfy his curiosity without telling him too much, for there is no reason why we should take anyone into our confidence.
A. Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
ContextIf I had not every confidence in your nerve and courage I would not suggest it, but it is essential that you should do it.
A. Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 13. Fixing the Nets
ContextBut as to your own researches, if there is any possible way in which I can be of service to you I trust that you will command me.
A. Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
ContextNow, however, I have arrived at a point in my narrative where I am compelled to abandon this method and to trust once more to my recollections, aided by the diary which I kept at the time.
A. Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
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