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House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
2 Mrs. Haffen immediately stiffened.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
3 Mrs. Haffen's face reddened with satisfaction.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
4 She signed to Mrs. Haffen to follow her into the drawing-room, and closed the door when they had entered.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
5 She had no idea of reading the letters; even to unfold Mrs. Haffen's dirty newspaper would have seemed degrading.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
6 It was clear that the young lady was badly frightened, and Mrs. Haffen was the woman to make the most of such fears.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
7 Meanwhile Mrs. Haffen, prompt to perceive her hesitation, had already opened the packet and ranged its contents on the table.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
8 The idea of bargaining for the letters was intolerable to her, but she knew that, if she appeared to weaken, Mrs. Haffen would at once increase her original demand.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
9 Mrs. Haffen raised a suspicious glance: she was too experienced not to know that the traffic she was engaged in had perils as great as its rewards, and she had a vision of the elaborate machinery of revenge which a word of this commanding young lady's might set in motion.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
10 She applied the corner of her shawl to her eyes, and murmured through it that no good came of bearing too hard on the poor, but that for her part she had never been mixed up in such a business before, and that on her honour as a Christian all she and Haffen had thought of was that the letters mustn't go any farther.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 9