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1  Every drop of blood in Lily's veins invited her to happiness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
2  Lily woke from happy dreams to find two notes at her bedside.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
3  If I were, I daresay I could manage to be happy even in her flat.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
4  But we're so different, you know: she likes being good, and I like being happy.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
5  Gerty Farish, the morning after the Wellington Brys' entertainment, woke from dreams as happy as Lily's.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
6  In town she returned to preoccupations which, for the moment, had the happy effect of banishing troublesome thoughts.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
7  As a dark river sweeps by under a lightning flash, she saw her chance of happiness surge past under a flash of temptation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
8  The young lady who thus formulated her admiration of her brilliant friend did not, in her own person, suggest such happy possibilities.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
9  Such flashes of joy as Lily moved in would have blinded Miss Farish, who was accustomed, in the way of happiness, to such scant light as shone through the cracks of other people's lives.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
10  TABLEAUX VIVANTS depend for their effect not only on the happy disposal of lights and the delusive-interposition of layers of gauze, but on a corresponding adjustment of the mental vision.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
11  All means seemed justifiable to attain such an end, or rather, by a happy shifting of lights with which practice had familiarized Miss Bart, the cause shrank to a pin-point in the general brightness of the effect.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
12  It was rather that he had preserved a certain social detachment, a happy air of viewing the show objectively, of having points of contact outside the great gilt cage in which they were all huddled for the mob to gape at.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
13  As she held Nettie Struther's child in her arms the frozen currents of youth had loosed themselves and run warm in her veins: the old life-hunger possessed her, and all her being clamoured for its share of personal happiness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
14  The certainty that she could marry Percy Gryce when she pleased had lifted a heavy load from her mind, and her money troubles were too recent for their removal not to leave a sense of relief which a less discerning intelligence might have taken for happiness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
15  The terrace at Bellomont on a September afternoon was a spot propitious to sentimental musings, and as Miss Bart stood leaning against the balustrade above the sunken garden, at a little distance from the animated group about the tea-table, she might have been lost in the mazes of an inarticulate happiness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
16  She stood talking with her cousin and Miss Van Osburgh, till a slight cloud on the latter's brow advised her that even cousinly amenities were subject to suspicion, and Miss Bart, mindful of the necessity of not exciting enmities at this crucial point of her career, dropped aside while the happy couple proceeded toward the tea-table.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
17  Mrs. Trenor, true to her simple principle of making her married friends happy, had placed Selden and Mrs. Dorset next to each other at dinner; but, in obedience to the time-honoured traditions of the match-maker, she had separated Lily and Mr. Gryce, sending in the former with George Dorset, while Mr. Gryce was coupled with Gwen Van Osburgh.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
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