1 But what she dreaded most of all was having to pass the chemist's at the corner of Sixth Avenue.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 2: Chapter 10 2 These were her superficial considerations; but under them lurked the secret dread that the obligation might not always remain intolerable.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 2: Chapter 10 3 The dread of Selden's suspecting that there was any need for her to propitiate such a man as Rosedale checked the trivial phrases of politeness.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 8 4 I hear she is interesting herself now in that silly Silverton boy, who has had his head turned by Carry Fisher, and has been gambling so dreadfully.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 9 5 Her dread of returning to a sleepless night was so great that she lingered on, hoping that excessive weariness would reinforce the waning power of the chloral.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 2: Chapter 13 6 She had time to take a fresh survey of her wretchedness, and to fluctuate anew between the impulse to confide in Selden and the dread of destroying his illusions.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 15 7 She must find some way out of the slough into which she had stumbled: it was not so much compunction as the dread of her morning thoughts that pressed on her the need of action.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 15 8 Her danger lay, as she knew, in her old incurable dread of discomfort and poverty; in the fear of that mounting tide of dinginess against which her mother had so passionately warned her.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 2: Chapter 10 9 It was the first time she had received a direct communication from Bellomont since the close of her last visit there, and she was still visited by the dread of having incurred Judy's displeasure.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 13 10 The dread lest he should question her, or keep the bottle back, choked the murmur of acquiescence in her throat; and when at length she emerged safely from the shop she was almost dizzy with the intensity of her relief.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 2: Chapter 10 11 The nervous dread lest anything in Trenor's manner should seem to justify their disapproval made her seek every pretext for avoiding him, and she left Bellomont conscious of having failed in every purpose which had taken her there.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 12 12 Lily herself knew that his mind was divided between the dread of catching cold if he remained out of doors too long at that hour, and the fear that, if he retreated to the house, Mrs. Fisher might follow him up with a paper to be signed.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 4 13 That lady's dread of a scene gave her an inexorableness which the greatest strength of character could not have produced, since it was independent of all considerations of right or wrong; and knowing this, Lily seldom ventured to assail it.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 15 14 She had known Nettie Crane as one of the discouraged victims of over-work and anaemic parentage: one of the superfluous fragments of life destined to be swept prematurely into that social refuse-heap of which Lily had so lately expressed her dread.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 2: Chapter 13 15 The day's task done, she dreaded to return to her narrow room, with its blotched wallpaper and shabby paint; and she hated every step of the walk thither, through the degradation of a New York street in the last stages of decline from fashion to commerce.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 2: Chapter 10 16 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 WhartonGet Context In BOOK 2: Chapter 10 17 She sent for Miss Jane, and made a dreadful scene; and Jack Stepney and Herbert Melson, who were there too, told Miss Jane that Freddy was threatening to marry some dreadful woman to whom Ned had introduced him, and that they could do nothing with him because now he's of age he has his own money.
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