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1  In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
2  That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities; now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
3  It was on this phase of the proceedings that Miss Bart entered on the afternoon of her return from the Van Osburgh wedding.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
4  As she sat, on the Saturday afternoon, on the terrace at Bellomont, she smiled at Mrs. Trenor's fear that she might go too fast.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
5  The rooms were packed with the gazing throng which, in the afternoon hours, trickles heavily between the tables, like the Sunday crowd in a lion-house.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
6  One was from Mrs. Trenor, who announced that she was coming to town that afternoon for a flying visit, and hoped Miss Bart would be able to dine with her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
7  She had made no reply to his suggestion that they should spend the afternoon together, but as her plan unfolded itself he felt fairly confident of being included in it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
8  He himself did not know why he had led their talk along such lines; it was the last use he would have imagined himself making of an afternoon's solitude with Miss Bart.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
9  They had not met since their Sunday afternoon walk at Bellomont, and that episode was still so vivid to her that she could hardly believe him to be less conscious of it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
10  During the laughing relation of this manoeuvre, Selden had time for a rapid impression of Miss Bart, who had seated herself opposite to him in the golden afternoon light.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
11  The excursionists would be gone at least four hours; Lily and Selden had the whole afternoon before them, and the sense of leisure and safety gave the last touch of lightness to her spirit.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
12  A glimpse of Mr. Gryce's crestfallen face even suggested that she had done wisely in absenting herself, since the disappointment he so candidly betrayed would surely whet his appetite for the afternoon walk.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
13  The few relatives who had stayed on, or returned, for the reading of Mrs. Peniston's will, had taken flight again that afternoon to Newport or Long Island; and not one of them had made any proffer of hospitality to Lily.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
14  He had his race's accuracy in the appraisal of values, and to be seen walking down the platform at the crowded afternoon hour in the company of Miss Lily Bart would have been money in his pocket, as he might himself have phrased it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
15  At such moments of diminished interest it was usual for Mrs. Dorset to keep her room till the afternoon; but on this occasion she drifted in when luncheon was half over, hollowed-eyed and drooping, but with an edge of malice under her indifference.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
16  Mr. Gryce was touched by her disinterestedness, and, to escape from the threatened vacuity of the afternoon, had taken her advice and departed mournfully, in a dust-hood and goggles: as the motor-car plunged down the avenue she smiled at his resemblance to a baffled beetle.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
17  The terrace at Bellomont on a September afternoon was a spot propitious to sentimental musings, and as Miss Bart stood leaning against the balustrade above the sunken garden, at a little distance from the animated group about the tea-table, she might have been lost in the mazes of an inarticulate happiness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
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