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1 Lily woke from happy dreams to find two notes at her bedside.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
2 Gerty Farish, the morning after the Wellington Brys' entertainment, woke from dreams as happy as Lily's.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
3 The scene in the Brys' conservatory had been like a part of her dreams; she had not expected to wake to such evidence of its reality.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
4 Her hand still clung to Gerty's as if to ward off evil dreams, but the hold of her fingers relaxed, her head sank deeper into its shelter, and Gerty felt that she slept.
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5 In the uneasy snatches of her natural dreams he came to her sometimes in the old guise of fellowship and tenderness; and she would rise from the sweet delusion mocked and emptied of her courage.
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6 Gerty could smile now at her own early dream of her friend's renovation through adversity: she understood clearly enough that Lily was not of those to whom privation teaches the unimportance of what they have lost.
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7 Lily, for all her dissatisfied dreaming, had never really conceived the possibility of revolving about a different centre: it was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.
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8 Lily felt a new interest in herself as a person of charitable instincts: she had never before thought of doing good with the wealth she had so often dreamed of possessing, but now her horizon was enlarged by the vision of a prodigal philanthropy.
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9 The air was closer than usual, because Miss Haines, who had a cold, had not allowed a window to be opened even during the noon recess; and Lily's head was so heavy with the weight of a sleepless night that the chatter of her companions had the incoherence of a dream.
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10 Differences of personality were merged in a warm atmosphere of praise, in which her beauty expanded like a flower in sunlight; and if Selden had approached a moment or two sooner he would have seen her turning on Ned Van Alstyne and George Dorset the look he had dreamed of capturing for himself.
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