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1  Lily was feeling unusually virtuous.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
2  Lily was in her element on such occasions.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
3  Lily was duly impressed by the magnitude of her opportunities.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
4  Lily was throbbing with fear, but the insinuation fortified her resistance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
5  Lily was nineteen when circumstances caused her to revise her view of the universe.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
6  Lily was acutely aware of her own part in this drama of innuendo: she knew the exact quality of the amusement the situation evoked.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
7  IF YOU WOULD FORGIVE YOUR ENEMY, says the Malay proverb, FIRST INFLICT A HURT ON HIM; and Lily was experiencing the truth of the apothegm.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
8  Lily was therefore standing alone when he reached her; and finding the expected look in her eye, he had the satisfaction of supposing he had kindled it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
9  Lily was sure that within twenty-four hours the story of her visiting her dress-maker at the Benedick would be in active circulation among Mr. Rosedale's acquaintances.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
10  She had, however, the fault common to enthusiasts of ignoring any slackness of response on the part of her hearers, and Lily was amused by her unconsciousness of the resistance displayed in every angle of Mr. Gryce's attitude.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
11  But Lily was not easily disconcerted; competition put her on her mettle, and she reflected that Selden's coming, if it did not declare him to be still in Mrs. Dorset's toils, showed him to be so completely free from them that he was not afraid of her proximity.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
12  Mrs. Trenor, as it chanced, had placed the husband and wife on opposite sides of the table, and Lily was therefore able to observe Mrs. Dorset also, and by carrying her glance a few feet farther, to set up a rapid comparison between Lawrence Selden and Mr. Gryce.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
13  There were just enough people left in the long suite of rooms to make their progress conspicuous, and Lily was aware of being followed by looks of amusement and interrogation, which glanced off as harmlessly from her indifference as from her companion's self-satisfaction.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
14  Lily was feeling the pleasant languor which is youth's penalty for dancing till dawn; but her mother, in spite of a few lines about the mouth, and under the yellow waves on her temples, was as alert, determined and high in colour as if she had risen from an untroubled sleep.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
15  The fact that the remark was in distinctly bad taste did not make it any easier to answer, for Lily was vividly aware that it was not the moment for that drawing up of her slim figure and surprised lifting of the brows by which she usually quelled incipient signs of familiarity.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
16  The spot was charming, and Lily was not insensible to the charm, or to the fact that her presence enhanced it; but she was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company, and the combination of a handsome girl and a romantic scene struck her as too good to be wasted.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
17  They had promised Lily to go to church with her, they declared, and Lily was such a dear old duck that they didn't mind doing it to please her, though they couldn't fancy what had put the idea in her head, and though for their own part they would much rather have played lawn tennis with Jack and Gwen, if she hadn't told them she was coming.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
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