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1  It seems Ned told Carry Fisher; and she told Bertha, naturally.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
2  I'm afraid they have nothing left: Ned's debts have swallowed up everything.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
3  Bertha certainly HAD grown tiresome since she had taken to poetry and Ned Silverton.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
4  "Yes: lively reading that was," said Mr. Ned Van Alstyne, stroking his moustache to hide the smile behind it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
5  One fact alone outwardly proclaimed the change they were all conspiring to ignore; and that was the non-appearance of Ned Silverton.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
6  Dorset, of late, had grown more than usually morose and incalculable, and Ned Silverton went about with an air that seemed to challenge the universe.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
7  On the Promenade des Anglais, where Ned Silverton hung on him for the half hour before dinner, he received a deeper impression of the general insecurity.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
8  Ned Van Alstyne, Jack Stepney, and a cousin or two followed, each coupled with the mention of a few thousands: Lily wondered that Grace Stepney was not among them.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
9  And cousin Grace Van Osburgh accuses him of having had a very bad influence on Freddy, who left Harvard last spring, and has been a great deal with Ned ever since.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
10  He had seen men of Ned Van Alstyne's type bring their hats and sticks into a drawing-room, and he thought it added a touch of elegant familiarity to their appearance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
11  It seems that Ned has quarrelled with the Dorsets; or at least Bertha won't allow him to see her, and he is so unhappy about it that he has taken to gambling again, and going about with all sorts of queer people.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
12  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
13  She was vaguely touched by the names and scenes amid which she moved, and had listened to Ned Silverton reading Theocritus by moonlight, as the yacht rounded the Sicilian promontories, with a thrill of the nerves that confirmed her belief in her intellectual superiority.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
14  These words, uttered by that experienced connoisseur, Mr. Ned Van Alstyne, whose scented white moustache had brushed Selden's shoulder whenever the parting of the curtains presented any exceptional opportunity for the study of the female outline, affected their hearer in an unexpected way.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
15  Differences of personality were merged in a warm atmosphere of praise, in which her beauty expanded like a flower in sunlight; and if Selden had approached a moment or two sooner he would have seen her turning on Ned Van Alstyne and George Dorset the look he had dreamed of capturing for himself.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
16  He saw instead, to his surprise, Ned Silverton loitering somewhat ostentatiously about the tables; and the discovery that this actor in the drama was not only hovering in the wings, but actually inviting the exposure of the footlights, though it might have seemed to imply that all peril was over, served rather to deepen Selden's sense of foreboding.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
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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