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1 Gerty's friendship did indeed hold fast; yet Lily was beginning to avoid her also.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
2 What she required, for the moment, of the Dorsets' friendship, was simply its social sanction.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
3 If her roaming sympathies had struck root anywhere, it was in her friendship with Judy Trenor.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
4 Carry had been a good friend to her in difficult days, and perhaps only a friendship like Gerty's could be proof against such an increasing strain.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
5 It spoke much for the depth of Mrs. Trenor's friendship that her voice, in admonishing Miss Bart, took the same note of personal despair as if she had been lamenting the collapse of a house-party.
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6 Bertha had been kind to her, they had lived together, during the last months, on terms of easy friendship, and the sense of friction of which Lily had recently become aware seemed to make it the more urgent that she should work undividedly in her friend's interest.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
7 He would marry her tomorrow if she could regain Bertha Dorset's friendship; and to induce the open resumption of that friendship, and the tacit retractation of all that had caused its withdrawal, she had only to put to the lady the latent menace contained in the packet so miraculously delivered into her hands.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
8 She saw that the whole weary work of rehabilitation must begin again, and against far greater odds, if Bertha Dorset should succeed in breaking up her friendship with the Gormers; and her longing for shelter and security was intensified by the passionate desire to triumph over Bertha, as only wealth and predominance could triumph over her.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 7