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1  Getting on to things is a mighty useful accomplishment in business, and I've simply extended it to my private affairs.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
2  The Silverton affair is in the acute stage: it's necessary that George's attention should be pretty continuously distracted.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
3  The next three days demonstrated to her own complete satisfaction Miss Bart's ability to manage her affairs without extraneous aid.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
4  She spoke with the intention of making him see that, if his words implied a tentative allusion to her private affairs, she was prepared to meet and repudiate it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
5  In a flash she remembered Mrs. Trenor's complaints of Carry Fisher's rapacity, and saw that they denoted an unexpected acquaintance with her husband's private affairs.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
6  All her concern had hitherto been for young Silverton, not only because, in such affairs, the woman's instinct is to side with the man, but because his case made a peculiar appeal to her sympathies.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
7  Already his wealth, and the masterly use he had made of it, were giving him an enviable prominence in the world of affairs, and placing Wall Street under obligations which only Fifth Avenue could repay.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
8  Gerty's quest, at any rate, brought up against a solid wall of resistance; and even when Carry Fisher, momentarily penitent for her share in the Hatch affair, joined her efforts to Miss Farish's, they met with no better success.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
9  They were generally assumed to be taken up with the legitimate business of courtship and marriage, and interference in such affairs on the part of their natural guardians was considered as unwarrantable as a spectator's suddenly joining in a game.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
10  But the sallow preoccupied women, with their bags and note-books and rolls of music, were all engrossed in their own affairs, and even those who sat by themselves were busy running over proof-sheets or devouring magazines between their hurried gulps of tea.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
11  She had always been glad to sit next to him at dinner, had found him more agreeable than most men, and had vaguely wished that he possessed the other qualities needful to fix her attention; but till now she had been too busy with her own affairs to regard him as more than one of the pleasant accessories of life.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
12  For though she knew she had been ruthlessly sacrificed to Bertha Dorset's determination to win back her husband, and though her own relation to Dorset had been that of the merest good-fellowship, yet she had been perfectly aware from the outset that her part in the affair was, as Carry Fisher brutally put it, to distract Dorset's attention from his wife.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
13  Mrs. Peniston's rare entertainments were preceded by days of heart-rending vacillation as to every detail of the feast, from the seating of the guests to the pattern of the table-cloth, and in the course of one of these preliminary discussions she had imprudently suggested to her cousin Grace that, as the dinner was a family affair, she might be included in it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11