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1  She would have smarter gowns than Judy Trenor, and far, far more jewels than Bertha Dorset.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
2  If her roaming sympathies had struck root anywhere, it was in her friendship with Judy Trenor.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
3  "You see, Judy thinks I'm the safest person for you to be with; and she's quite right," she rejoined.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
4  You're very kind, Judy: I'll lock up my cigarettes and wear that last year's dress you sent me this morning.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
5  "Well, I've seen a good deal less of you since we've got to be such pals than I used to when you were Judy's friend," he continued with unconscious penetration.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
6  Miss Bart had received one or two notes from Judy Trenor, reproaching her for not returning to Bellomont; but she replied evasively, alleging the obligation to remain with her aunt.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
7  Judy has promised to ask him to dine when we get to town, but I can't induce her to have him at Bellomont, and if you would let me bring him up now it would make a lot of difference.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
8  Mrs. Dorset had none of Judy Trenor's lavish impulses, and Dorset's admiration was not likely to express itself in financial "tips," even had Lily cared to renew her experiences in that line.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
9  In fact I can't afford any of the things my friends do, and I am afraid Judy often thinks me a bore because I don't play cards any longer, and because I am not as smartly dressed as the other women.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
10  She paused a moment, and added in a lighter tone: "I didn't mean to bore you with all this, but I want your help in making Judy understand that I can't, at present, go on living as one must live among you all."
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
11  "Not that I ought to complain to-day, though," he went on after a moment, "for I did a very neat stroke of business, thanks to Stepney's friend Rosedale: by the way, Miss Lily, I wish you'd try to persuade Judy to be decently civil to that chap."
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
12  When she ceased to amuse Judy Trenor and her friends she would have to fall back on amusing Mrs. Peniston; whichever way she looked she saw only a future of servitude to the whims of others, never the possibility of asserting her own eager individuality.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
13  However, there could be no doubt of the expediency of showing herself in his box on the opening night of the opera; and after all, since Judy Trenor had promised to take him up that winter, it was as well to reap the advantage of being first in the field.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
14  Mrs. Dorset was, in fact, engaged in a new sentimental experiment, of which Mrs. Fisher's late property, Ned Silverton, was the rosy victim; and at such moments, as Judy Trenor had once remarked, she felt a peculiar need of distracting her husband's attention.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
15  It was a keen satisfaction to feel that, for a few months at least, she would be independent of her friends' bounty, that she could show herself abroad without wondering whether some penetrating eye would detect in her dress the traces of Judy Trenor's refurbished splendour.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
16  Judy knew it must be "horrid" for poor Lily to have to stop to consider whether she could afford real lace on her petticoats, and not to have a motor-car and a steam-yacht at her orders; but the daily friction of unpaid bills, the daily nibble of small temptations to expenditure, were trials as far out of her experience as the domestic problems of the char-woman.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
17  She had seen the Wetheralls, the Trenor girls and Lady Cressida packed safely into the omnibus; Judy Trenor was sure to be having her hair shampooed; Carry Fisher had doubtless carried off her host for a drive; Ned Silverton was probably smoking the cigarette of young despair in his bedroom; and Kate Corby was certain to be playing tennis with Jack Stepney and Miss Van Osburgh.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
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