CONVERSATION in Classic Quotes

1  On this occasion, however, Mrs. Dorset took no part in the general conversation.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5

2  His own view of the situation forced itself upon her after a few moments' conversation.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15

3  Miss Corby's role was jocularity: she always entered the conversation with a handspring.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5

4  She wanted to get away from herself, and conversation was the only means of escape that she knew.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2

5  But in spite of her efforts, conversation flagged after the tray had been removed, and she was driven to take a fresh measurement of Mr. Gryce's limitations.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2

6  Miss Bart had the gift of following an undercurrent of thought while she appeared to be sailing on the surface of conversation; and in this case her mental excursion took the form of a rapid survey of Mr. Percy Gryce's future as combined with her own.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2

7  Mrs. Fisher's conversation had, indeed, operated to that end; but the treatment was too painful to be voluntarily chosen while milder remedies were untried; and Selden thought he could trust himself to return gradually to a reasonable view of Miss Bart, if only he did not see her.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1

8  There had been another exchange of visits, a tea at a country-club, an encounter at a hunt ball; there was even a rumour of an approaching dinner, which Mattie Gormer, with an unnatural effort at discretion, tried to smuggle out of the conversation whenever Miss Bart took part in it.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6