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1  Grace Stepney laughed outright.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
2  She had sent for Grace Stepney and was taking digitalis.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
3  She wondered whether Grace Stepney had gone out of her mind.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
4  After luncheon, when Grace Stepney's prying eyes had been removed, Lily asked for a word with her aunt.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
5  Ned Van Alstyne, Jack Stepney, and a cousin or two followed, each coupled with the mention of a few thousands: Lily wondered that Grace Stepney was not among them.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
6  Grace Stepney's mind was like a kind of moral fly-paper, to which the buzzing items of gossip were drawn by a fatal attraction, and where they hung fast in the toils of an inexorable memory.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
7  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
8  It was bitter enough for Lily to ask a favour of Grace Stepney, but the alternative was bitterer still; and one morning she presented herself at Mrs. Peniston's, where Grace, for the facilitation of her pious task, had taken up a provisional abode.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
9  One or two made faint motions of recognition, which might have been subdued either by the solemnity of the scene, or by the doubt as to how far the others meant to go; Mrs. Jack Stepney gave a careless nod, and Grace Stepney, with a sepulchral gesture, indicated a seat at her side.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4