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1  Across it she said: "Don't be absurd, Gus."
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
2  Don't be foolish, Gus; I can't let you talk to me in that ridiculous way.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
3  It seemed incredible that Gus Trenor should have spoken of her to Rosedale.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
4  "I'm so glad you and Gus have become such good friends," she said approvingly.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
5  At the station she thought Gus Trenor seemed surprised, and not wholly unrelieved, to see her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
6  Besides, Carry is the only person who can keep Gus in a good humour when we have bores in the house.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
7  She was roused from these speculations by a familiar touch on her arm, and turning saw Gus Trenor beside her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
8  As she did so, it struck her with a flash of irony that she was indebted to Gus Trenor for the means of buying them.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
9  A few sumptuously-cloaked ladies were already gathered in the marble vestibule, and in the coat-room he found Van Alstyne and Gus Trenor.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
10  As Lily's silence left him with this allusion on his hands, he added with a confidential smile: "Gus Trenor has promised to come to town on purpose."
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
11  The fact that Gus Trenor was Judy's husband was at times Lily's strongest reason for disliking him, and for resenting the obligation under which he had placed her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
12  The first thousand dollar cheque which Lily received with a blotted scrawl from Gus Trenor strengthened her self-confidence in the exact degree to which it effaced her debts.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
13  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
14  Lily, who considered herself above narrow prejudices, had not imagined that the fact of letting Gus Trenor make a little money for her would ever disturb her self-complacency.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
15  If Lily's poetic enjoyment of the moment was undisturbed by the base thought that her gown and opera cloak had been indirectly paid for by Gus Trenor, the latter had not sufficient poetry in his composition to lose sight of these prosaic facts.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
16  In her inmost heart Lily knew it was not by appealing to the fraternal instinct that she was likely to move Gus Trenor; but this way of explaining the situation helped to drape its crudity, and she was always scrupulous about keeping up appearances to herself.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
17  She looked down the long table, studying its occupants one by one, from Gus Trenor, with his heavy carnivorous head sunk between his shoulders, as he preyed on a jellied plover, to his wife, at the opposite end of the long bank of orchids, suggestive, with her glaring good-looks, of a jeweller's window lit by electricity.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
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