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1  I'll watch here by the fire, and you'll leave the light, and your door open.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
2  She put out her lamp, covered the fire, and went into her bedroom to undress.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
3  She had a vision of his quiet room, of the bookshelves, and the fire on the hearth.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
4  He drew her to the arm-chair near the fire, and placed a cushion behind her shoulders.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
5  If we're all the raw stuff of the cosmic effects, one would rather be the fire that tempers a sword than the fish that dyes a purple cloak.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
6  "It's a well-earned rest: I'll say that for myself," she continued, sinking down with a sigh of content on the pillowed lounge near the fire.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
7  Lily sat quiet, leaning to the fire: the clatter of cups behind her soothed her as familiar noises hush a child whom silence has kept wakeful.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
8  It was as though a cold air had dispersed the fumes of his libations, and the situation loomed before him black and naked as the ruins of a fire.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
9  The great hall was empty but for the knot of dogs by the fire, who, taking in at a glance the outdoor aspect of Miss Bart, were upon her at once with lavish offers of companionship.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
10  He came late, at the confidential hour when the tea-table still lingers by the fire in friendly expectancy; and his manner showed a readiness to adapt itself to the intimacy of the occasion.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
11  Her maid had kindled a little fire on the hearth, and it contended cheerfully with the sunlight which slanted across the moss-green carpet and caressed the curved sides of an old marquetry desk.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
12  The force of contrast gave an added keenness to the luxury of lying once more in a soft-pillowed bed, and looking across a spacious sunlit room at a breakfast-table set invitingly near the fire.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
13  The green-shaded lamps made tranquil circles of light in the gathering dusk, a little fire flickered on the hearth, and Selden's easy-chair, which stood near it, had been pushed aside when he rose to admit her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
14  Here, as usual, were flowers, newspapers, a littered writing-table, and a general aspect of lamp-lit familiarity, so that it was a surprise not to see Judy's energetic figure start up from the arm-chair near the fire.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
15  On the crimson carpet a deer-hound and two or three spaniels dozed luxuriously before the fire, and the light from the great central lantern overhead shed a brightness on the women's hair and struck sparks from their jewels as they moved.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
16  Feeling no desire for the self-communion which awaited her in her room, she lingered on the broad stairway, looking down into the hall below, where the last card-players were grouped about the tray of tall glasses and silver-collared decanters which the butler had just placed on a low table near the fire.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
17  As she entered her bedroom, with its softly-shaded lights, her lace dressing-gown lying across the silken bedspread, her little embroidered slippers before the fire, a vase of carnations filling the air with perfume, and the last novels and magazines lying uncut on a table beside the reading-lamp, she had a vision of Miss Farish's cramped flat, with its cheap conveniences and hideous wall-papers.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
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