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1  Mr. Gryce was undoubtedly enjoying Bellomont.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
2  Mrs. Peniston, who was a conscientious woman, had forwarded them all to Bellomont.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
3  He waved his whip in the direction of the Bellomont acres, which lay outspread before them in opulent undulations.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
4  She was familiar enough with the habits of Bellomont to know that she was likely to have a free field till luncheon.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
5  All her plans for the day had been built on the assumption that it was to see her that Selden had come to Bellomont.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
6  As she sat, on the Saturday afternoon, on the terrace at Bellomont, she smiled at Mrs. Trenor's fear that she might go too fast.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
7  Bridge at Bellomont usually lasted till the small hours; and when Lily went to bed that night she had played too long for her own good.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
8  The library at Bellomont was in fact never used for reading, though it had a certain popularity as a smoking-room or a quiet retreat for flirtation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
9  The observance of Sunday at Bellomont was chiefly marked by the punctual appearance of the smart omnibus destined to convey the household to the little church at the gates.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
10  She broke off, laughing, to explain that she had come up to town from Tuxedo, on her way to the Gus Trenors' at Bellomont, and had missed the three-fifteen train to Rhinebeck.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
11  He knew, of course, that there would be a large house-party at Bellomont, and the possibility of being taken for one of Mrs. Trenor's guests was doubtless included in his calculations.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
12  She could not remain at Bellomont without playing bridge, and being involved in other expenses; and to continue her usual series of autumn visits would merely prolong the same difficulties.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
13  She had known that Mr. Percy Gryce was to be at Bellomont, but she had not counted on the luck of having him to herself in the train; and the fact banished all perturbing thoughts of Mr. Rosedale.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
14  Lily had hinted to Mr. Gryce that this neglect of religious observances was repugnant to her early traditions, and that during her visits to Bellomont she regularly accompanied Muriel and Hilda to church.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
15  A solitude was tacitly created for her in the crowded existence of Bellomont, and her friends could not have shown a greater readiness for self-effacement had her wooing been adorned with all the attributes of romance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
16  The library was almost the only surviving portion of the old manor-house of Bellomont: a long spacious room, revealing the traditions of the mother-country in its classically-cased doors, the Dutch tiles of the chimney, and the elaborate hob-grate with its shining brass urns.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
17  The terrace at Bellomont on a September afternoon was a spot propitious to sentimental musings, and as Miss Bart stood leaning against the balustrade above the sunken garden, at a little distance from the animated group about the tea-table, she might have been lost in the mazes of an inarticulate happiness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
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