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1  And in this case there was no doubt of the issue.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
2  "No doubt you have: extremely foolish," Mrs. Peniston interposed.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
3  Lily had not an instant's doubt as to the meaning of the murmur greeting her appearance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
4  It was not that she had, in the conventional sense, any doubt of Mrs. Hatch's irreproachableness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
5  It was the danger-point of their intercourse that he could not doubt the spontaneity of her liking.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
6  But the thought of being personally connected with the transaction was less agreeable; and her momentary flashes of amusement were followed by increasing periods of doubt.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
7  Here was, after all, something that her charming listless hands could really do; she had no doubt of their capacity for knotting a ribbon or placing a flower to advantage.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
8  The mere fact that they thus showed themselves together, with the utmost openness the place afforded, seemed to declare beyond a doubt that their differences were composed.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
9  Temporarily, no doubt, however exerted, it worked for the general safety: the question was how long it would last, and by what kind of reaction it was likely to be followed.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
10  She doubted Mrs. Van Osburgh's reluctance, but was aware of Miss Farish's habit of ascribing her own delicacies of feeling to the persons least likely to be encumbered by them.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
11  There could be no doubt that he admired her as much as ever, and she believed it rested with herself to raise his admiration to the point where it should bear down the lingering counsels of expediency.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
12  Selden sat down beside her, waiting for her to speak, fearful lest any word he chose should touch too roughly on her wound, and kept also from free utterance by the wretched doubt which had slowly renewed itself within him.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
13  However, there could be no doubt of the expediency of showing herself in his box on the opening night of the opera; and after all, since Judy Trenor had promised to take him up that winter, it was as well to reap the advantage of being first in the field.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
14  Lily was confident that the clerk would fill it without hesitation; yet the nervous dread of a refusal, or even of an expression of doubt, communicated itself to her restless hands as she affected to examine the bottles of perfume stacked on the glass case before her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
15  One or two made faint motions of recognition, which might have been subdued either by the solemnity of the scene, or by the doubt as to how far the others meant to go; Mrs. Jack Stepney gave a careless nod, and Grace Stepney, with a sepulchral gesture, indicated a seat at her side.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
16  It may be doubted if such an emotion had ever before been evoked by Carry Fisher's surroundings; but, contrasted to the world in which Lily had lately lived, there was an air of repose and stability in the very placing of the furniture, and in the quiet competence of the parlour-maid who led her up to her room.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
17  She had seen very little of Rosedale since her annexation by the Gormers, for he was still steadily bent on penetrating to the inner Paradise from which she was now excluded; but once or twice, when nothing better offered, he had turned up for a Sunday, and on these occasions he had left her in no doubt as to his view of her situation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
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