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1  Mr. Rosedale stood scanning her with interest and approval.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
2  Mr. Rosedale was still at a stage in his social ascent when it was of importance to produce such impressions.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
3  If she did not marry Percy Gryce, the day might come when she would have to be civil to such men as Rosedale.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
4  But the attempt had hitherto been vain, and as Rosedale undoubtedly paid for the dinners, the laugh remained with his debtor.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
5  If she had had the presence of mind to let Rosedale drive her to the station, the concession might have purchased his silence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
6  Lily's mind had reverted from the intrusive personality of Mr. Rosedale to the train of thought set in motion by Trenor's first words.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
7  But some intuitive repugnance, getting the better of years of social discipline, had made her push Mr. Rosedale into his OUBLIETTE without a trial.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
8  In her little set Mr. Rosedale had been pronounced "impossible," and Jack Stepney roundly snubbed for his attempt to pay his debts in dinner invitations.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
9  The first part of her companion's discourse had started an interesting train of thought, which was rudely interrupted by the mention of Mr. Rosedale's name.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
10  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
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
11  She turned from the thought with a little shiver, but it hung on her all the way to the station, and dogged her down the platform with the persistency of Mr. Rosedale himself.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
12  She had known that Mr. Percy Gryce was to be at Bellomont, but she had not counted on the luck of having him to herself in the train; and the fact banished all perturbing thoughts of Mr. Rosedale.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
13  "You're very kind; but I couldn't think of troubling you," she said, extending her hand to Mr. Rosedale; and heedless of his protestations, she sprang into the rescuing vehicle, and called out a breathless order to the driver.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
14  At any rate, she felt herself so completely in command of the situation that she yielded to a sense of security in which all fear of Mr. Rosedale, and of the difficulties on which that fear was contingent, vanished beyond the edge of thought.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
15  "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
16  Jack gave up the contest with a laughing "You'll see," and, sticking manfully to his guns, showed himself with Rosedale at the fashionable restaurants, in company with the personally vivid if socially obscure ladies who are available for such purposes.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
17  Mr. Simon Rosedale was a man who made it his business to know everything about every one, whose idea of showing himself to be at home in society was to display an inconvenient familiarity with the habits of those with whom he wished to be thought intimate.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
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