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1 Oh, you've been most generous, Aunt Julia; I shall never forget your kindness.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
2 It was meant in kindness, of course; but it was not the sort of obligation one could remain under.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
3 Lily's colour rose at the unexpected advance: it was a long time since real kindness had looked at her from any eyes but Gerty's.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
4 Mrs. Trenor evidently assumed that Lily's growing intimacy with her husband was simply an indirect way of returning her own kindness.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
5 Every penny of it, and more too," Lily repeated; "and you now perhaps see why I prefer to remain with Mrs. Hatch rather than take advantage of Gerty's kindness.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
6 Few women took the trouble to make themselves agreeable to Dorset, and Lily had been kind to him at Bellomont, and was now smiling on him with a divine renewal of kindness.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
7 As to the nature of Selden's growing kindness, Gerty would no more have dared to define it than she would have tried to learn a butterfly's colours by knocking the dust from its wings.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
8 Now she was the centre of a little illumination of her own: a mild but unmistakable beam, compounded of Lawrence Selden's growing kindness to herself and the discovery that he extended his liking to Lily Bart.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
9 They were not, at any rate, the premeditated and perfunctory endearments of the guest under his hostess's eye, for he and the little girl had the room to themselves; and something in his attitude made him seem a simple and kindly being compared to the small critical creature who endured his homage.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 6