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House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
2 "I wanted to see you," he said; and she could not resist observing in reply that he had kept his wishes under remarkable control.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
3 He was first puzzled and then irritated to find himself always led back to the same starting-point, and Lily felt that she was gradually losing control of the situation.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
4 Nothing could have been less consonant with Selden's mood than Van Alstyne's after-dinner aphorisms, but as long as the latter confined himself to generalities his listener's nerves were in control.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
5 The reaction caused her a sharp pang, but after a passing movement of irritation at the clumsiness of fate, and at her own carelessness in not denying the door to all but Selden, she controlled herself and greeted Rosedale amicably.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
6 The collapse of Trenor's will left her in control, and she heard herself, in a voice that was her own yet outside herself, bidding him ring for the servant, bidding him give the order for a hansom, directing him to put her in it when it came.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
7 Poverty simplifies book-keeping, and her financial situation was easier to ascertain than it had been then; but she had not yet learned the control of money, and during her transient phase of luxury at the Emporium she had slipped back into habits of extravagance which still impaired her slender balance.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 13