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1  Dorset greeted the sally with delight.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
2  If Selden had come at Mrs. Dorset's call, it was at her own that he would stay.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
3  On this occasion, however, Mrs. Dorset took no part in the general conversation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
4  George Dorset's talk did not interfere with the range of his neighbour's thoughts.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
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5  She would have smarter gowns than Judy Trenor, and far, far more jewels than Bertha Dorset.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
6  She was roused by a chuckle which Mr. Dorset seemed to eject from the depths of his lean throat.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
7  Thus adjured, Lily turned her eyes on the spectacle which was affording Mr. Dorset such legitimate mirth.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
8  Mrs. Dorset might startle or dazzle him, but she had neither the skill nor the patience to effect his capture.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
9  And Mrs. Dorset leaned back against her travelling cushions with a smile which made Lily wish there had been no vacant seat beside her own.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
10  She might better have contented herself with thinking that he had simply responded to the despairing summons of his hostess, anxious to interpose him between herself and the ill-humour of Mrs. Dorset.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
11  "You see I came after all," he said; but before she had time to answer, Mrs. Dorset, breaking away from a lifeless colloquy with her host, had stepped between them with a little gesture of appropriation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
12  It certainly appeared, as he said, that Mrs. Dorset was the more active participant in the scene: her neighbour seemed to receive her advances with a temperate zest which did not distract him from his dinner.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
13  This was one of the moments when the sense of contrast was uppermost, and she turned away impatiently as Mrs. George Dorset, glittering in serpentine spangles, drew Percy Gryce in her wake to a confidential nook beneath the gallery.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
14  Mrs. Trenor, as it chanced, had placed the husband and wife on opposite sides of the table, and Lily was therefore able to observe Mrs. Dorset also, and by carrying her glance a few feet farther, to set up a rapid comparison between Lawrence Selden and Mr. Gryce.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
15  To Mr. Dorset, however, his wife's attitude was a subject of such evident concern that, when he was not scraping the sauce from his fish, or scooping the moist bread-crumbs from the interior of his roll, he sat straining his thin neck for a glimpse of her between the lights.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
16  Mrs. George Dorset, regardless of the mild efforts of a traveller with a carpet-bag, who was doing his best to make room for her by getting out of the train, stood in the middle of the aisle, diffusing about her that general sense of exasperation which a pretty woman on her travels not infrequently creates.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
17  Mrs. Trenor, true to her simple principle of making her married friends happy, had placed Selden and Mrs. Dorset next to each other at dinner; but, in obedience to the time-honoured traditions of the match-maker, she had separated Lily and Mr. Gryce, sending in the former with George Dorset, while Mr. Gryce was coupled with Gwen Van Osburgh.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
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