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1  Now we're talking let's call things by their right names, and clear the whole business up.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
2  Mr. Bry, a short pale man, with a business face and leisure clothes, met the dilemma hilariously.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
3  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
4  He had instructed his bankers to forward some important business letters to Nice, and at Nice he would quietly await them.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
5  At the time, I understood that he was speculating with my own money: it was incredibly stupid of me, but I knew nothing of business.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
6  And the realization of this fact brought her recurringly face to face with the temptation to use the legacy in establishing her business.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
7  I daresay he would; but you don't seem to care for that particular form of getting even, and, taking a purely business view of the question, I think you're right.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
8  He lit Selden's proffered cigarette, and continued, in his high-pitched drawling tone: "None of my business, of course, but I didn't introduce her to the Duchess."
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
9  He put it to her as if she had not grasped the consequences of her act; as if her incorrigible ignorance of business were about to precipitate her into a fresh act of folly.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
10  "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
11  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
12  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
13  Whether, in the present instance, safety for either lay in repairing so damaged a tie, it was no business of his to consider: he had only, on general principles, to think of averting a scandal, and his desire to avert it was increased by his fear of its involving Miss Bart.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
14  She was weary of being swept passively along a current of pleasure and business in which she had no share; weary of seeing other people pursue amusement and squander money, while she felt herself of no more account among them than an expensive toy in the hands of a spoiled child.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
15  She applied the corner of her shawl to her eyes, and murmured through it that no good came of bearing too hard on the poor, but that for her part she had never been mixed up in such a business before, and that on her honour as a Christian all she and Haffen had thought of was that the letters mustn't go any farther.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
16  When an urgent case summoned him abroad to confer with a client in Paris, he broke reluctantly with the routine of the office; and it was only now that, having despatched his business, and slipped away for a week in the south, he began to feel the renewed zest of spectatorship that is the solace of those who take an objective interest in life.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
17  At first, indeed, while the memory of their last hour at Monte Carlo still held the full heat of his indignation, he had anxiously watched for her return; but she had disappointed him by lingering in England, and when she finally reappeared it happened that business had called him to the West, whence he came back only to learn that she was starting for Alaska with the Gormers.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
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