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House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
2 Suddenly he looked at his daughter and laughed.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
3 But neither his wife nor his daughter was sufficiently interested to ask an explanation.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
4 Carry, in her rare moments of prosperity, became so expansively maternal that Miss Bart sometimes wondered whether, if she could ever get time and money enough, she would not end by devoting them both to her daughter.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
5 It was Mrs. Trenor's theory that her daughters actually did go to church every Sunday; but their French governess's convictions calling her to the rival fane, and the fatigues of the week keeping their mother in her room till luncheon, there was seldom any one present to verify the fact.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
6 She followed in imagination the career of other beauties, pointing out to her daughter what might be achieved through such a gift, and dwelling on the awful warning of those who, in spite of it, had failed to get what they wanted: to Mrs. Bart, only stupidity could explain the lamentable denouement of some of her examples.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
7 Sometimes his daughter heard him denounced for having neglected to forward Mrs. Bart's remittances; but for the most part he was never mentioned or thought of till his patient stooping figure presented itself on the New York dock as a buffer between the magnitude of his wife's luggage and the restrictions of the American custom-house.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 3