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1  He met Gerty Farish's brimming gaze.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
2  For the first time in her life she found herself utterly alone except for Gerty Farish.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
3  Gerty Farish, the morning after the Wellington Brys' entertainment, woke from dreams as happy as Lily's.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
4  She stayed on partly for the comfort of Gerty Farish's nearness, and partly for lack of knowing where to go.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
5  Cornelia Van Alstyne was full of it: Molly was there, and Gerty Farish ran in for a minute to tell us about it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
6  He could not wait for the midday recess, but seized a moment's leisure in court to scribble his telegram to Gerty Farish.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
7  His mind turned to Gerty Farish's words, and the wisdom of the world seemed a groping thing beside the insight of innocence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
8  Gerty Farish was not a close enough reader of character to disentangle the mixed threads of which Lily's philanthropy was woven.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
9  Gerty Farish, seated next to Selden, was lost in that indiscriminate and uncritical enjoyment so irritating to Miss Bart's finer perceptions.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
10  I came with Gerty Farish, and promised not to let her miss the train, but I am sure she is still extracting sentimental solace from the wedding presents.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
11  A rustle of weeds and quick turning of heads hailed the opening of the door, and Lily Bart appeared, tall and noble in her black dress, with Gerty Farish at her side.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
12  She knew that Gerty Farish admired her blindly, and therefore supposed that she inspired the same sentiments in Grace Stepney, whom she classified as a Gerty Farish without the saving traits of youth and enthusiasm.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
13  The shock of dismay with which, on the dock, she had heard from Gerty Farish of Mrs. Peniston's sudden death, had been mitigated, almost at once, by the irrepressible thought that now, at last, she would be able to pay her debts.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
14  There had been a germ of truth in his declaration to Gerty Farish that he had never wanted to marry a "nice" girl: the adjective connoting, in his cousin's vocabulary, certain utilitarian qualities which are apt to preclude the luxury of charm.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
15  In Gerty Farish's sitting-room, whither a hansom had carried the two friends, Lily dropped into a chair with a faint sound of laughter: it struck her as a humorous coincidence that her aunt's legacy should so nearly represent the amount of her debt to Trenor.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
16  That obligation discharged, she would have but a thousand dollars of Mrs. Peniston's legacy left, and nothing to live on but her own small income, which was considerably less than Gerty Farish's wretched pittance; but this consideration gave way to the imperative claim of her wounded pride.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
17  Certainly no one need have confessed such acquiescence in her lot as was revealed in the "useful" colour of Gerty Farish's gown and the subdued lines of her hat: it is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you are beautiful.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
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