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1  I can tell by poor George's manner.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
2  Oh, George is not as dismal as you think.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
3  She said I was trying to marry George Dorset.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
4  Oh, you don't count, George: one doesn't have to talk to one's husband.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
5  When Bertha wants to have a good time she has to provide occupation for George.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
6  George Dorset's talk did not interfere with the range of his neighbour's thoughts.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
7  Bertha has been behaving more than ever like a madwoman, and George's powers of credulity are very nearly exhausted.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
8  But to Miss Bart's relief the repetition of her promise was cut short by the opening of the box door to admit George Dorset.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
9  The Silverton affair is in the acute stage: it's necessary that George's attention should be pretty continuously distracted.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
10  They grew to sudden acuteness as she caught sight of George Dorset descending the steps of the Hotel de Paris and making for her across the square.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
11  It was in this frame of mind that, striking back from the shore one morning into the windings of an unfamiliar lane, she came suddenly upon the figure of George Dorset.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
12  She had even offered to give up her visit to Lake George, and remain in town with Miss Bart, if the latter would renounce her journey; but Lily could disguise her real distaste for this plan under a sufficiently valid reason.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 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  Even Gerty Farish, who welcomed Lily's return with tender solicitude, would soon be preparing to join the aunt with whom she spent her summers on Lake George: only Lily herself remained without plan or purpose, stranded in a backwater of the great current of pleasure.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
15  Differences of personality were merged in a warm atmosphere of praise, in which her beauty expanded like a flower in sunlight; and if Selden had approached a moment or two sooner he would have seen her turning on Ned Van Alstyne and George Dorset the look he had dreamed of capturing for himself.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
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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