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1  They dwelt together on the fact that Lily had had no chance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
2  The perception of this fact helped her to answer gaily: "It's not often I have the chance."
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
3  Her relation with her aunt was as superficial as that of chance lodgers who pass on the stairs.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
4  As a dark river sweeps by under a lightning flash, she saw her chance of happiness surge past under a flash of temptation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
5  Indeed, he gradually came to regard it as such, and to feel a sense of personal complacency when he chanced on any reference to the Gryce Americana.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
6  There were a thousand chances to one against her meeting anybody, but one could never tell, and she always paid for her rare indiscretions by a violent reaction of prudence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
7  Selden understood the symptoms: he recognized the fact that he was paying up, as there had always been a chance of his having to pay up, for the voluntary exclusions of his past.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
8  He saw then, with a pang of self-reproach, that she meant neither to explain nor to defend herself; that by his miserable silence he had forfeited all chance of helping her, and that the decisive hour was past.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
9  Selden, stumbling on a chance acquaintance, had dined with him, and adjourned, still in his company, to the brightly lit Promenade, where a line of crowded stands commanded the glittering darkness of the waters.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
10  The arguments pleading for it with Lily were the old unanswerable ones of the personal situation: the sense of injury, the sense of failure, the passionate craving for a fair chance against the selfish despotism of society.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
11  He was vaguely aware that Miss Bart was cruising in the Mediterranean with the Dorsets, but it had not occurred to him that there was any chance of running across her on the Riviera, where the season was virtually at an end.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
12  But after all that was but one chance in a hundred: the action of the drug was incalculable, and the addition of a few drops to the regular dose would probably do no more than procure for her the rest she so desperately needed.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
13  She felt not only that Lily was cheapening herself by making use of an intimacy she would never have cultivated from choice, but that, in drifting back now to her former manner of life, she was forfeiting her last chance of ever escaping from it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
14  Mr. Gryce had a constitutional dislike to what he called "committing himself," and tenderly as he cherished his health, he evidently concluded that it was safer to stay out of reach of pen and ink till chance released him from Mrs. Fisher's toils.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
15  Mrs. Trenor, as it chanced, had placed the husband and wife on opposite sides of the table, and Lily was therefore able to observe Mrs. Dorset also, and by carrying her glance a few feet farther, to set up a rapid comparison between Lawrence Selden and Mr. Gryce.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
16  Rosedale, a day or two after their chance meeting, had called to enquire if she had recovered from her indisposition; but since then she had not seen or heard from him, and his absence seemed to betoken a struggle to keep away, to let her pass once more out of his life.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
17  Any advance on Lily's side might have been perilous: there was nothing to do but to trust to the happy chance of an accidental meeting, and Lily knew that, even so late in the season, there was always a hope of running across her friends in their frequent passages through town.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
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