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1  Oh, you don't count, George: one doesn't have to talk to one's husband.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
2  The offer was accepted, and Mrs. Dorset moved away with her husband in attendance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
3  Mrs. Trenor evidently assumed that Lily's growing intimacy with her husband was simply an indirect way of returning her own kindness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
4  She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making, and it was odious to her that her husband should make a show of himself before the servants.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
5  After all, then, she had come only to ask Miss Bart to find a place for her husband; or, more probably, to seek the young lady's intervention with Mrs. Peniston.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
6  The fact that Gus Trenor was Judy's husband was at times Lily's strongest reason for disliking him, and for resenting the obligation under which he had placed her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
7  She simply left the brunt of the situation on her husband's hands, as if too absorbed in a grievance of her own to suspect that she might be the object of one herself.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
8  In a flash she remembered Mrs. Trenor's complaints of Carry Fisher's rapacity, and saw that they denoted an unexpected acquaintance with her husband's private affairs.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
9  The code of Lily's world decreed that a woman's husband should be the only judge of her conduct: she was technically above suspicion while she had the shelter of his approval, or even of his indifference.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
10  The quality of Mrs. Bry's hospitality, and of the tips her husband had presumably imparted, lent to the manner of the English ladies a general effusiveness which shed the rosiest light over their hostess's future.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
11  She knew that this generosity to self is one of the forms of meanness, and she resolved so to identify herself with her husband's vanity that to gratify her wishes would be to him the most exquisite form of self-indulgence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
12  Once in the winter the rector would come to dine, and her husband would beg her to go over the list and see that no DIVORCEES were included, except those who had showed signs of penitence by being re-married to the very wealthy.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
13  Mrs. Dorset was, in fact, engaged in a new sentimental experiment, of which Mrs. Fisher's late property, Ned Silverton, was the rosy victim; and at such moments, as Judy Trenor had once remarked, she felt a peculiar need of distracting her husband's attention.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
14  Mrs. Trenor, as it chanced, had placed the husband and wife on opposite sides of the table, and Lily was therefore able to observe Mrs. Dorset also, and by carrying her glance a few feet farther, to set up a rapid comparison between Lawrence Selden and Mr. Gryce.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
15  She could not, indeed, imagine herself, in any extremity, stooping to extract a "tip" from Mr. Rosedale; but at her side was a man in possession of that precious commodity, and who, as the husband of her dearest friend, stood to her in a relation of almost fraternal intimacy.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
16  A startled look ran from eye to eye; Mrs. Bry crimsoned to the verge of congestion, Mrs. Stepney slipped nervously behind her husband, and Selden, in the general turmoil of his sensations, was mainly conscious of a longing to grip Dabham by the collar and fling him out into the street.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
17  For though she knew she had been ruthlessly sacrificed to Bertha Dorset's determination to win back her husband, and though her own relation to Dorset had been that of the merest good-fellowship, yet she had been perfectly aware from the outset that her part in the affair was, as Carry Fisher brutally put it, to distract Dorset's attention from his wife.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
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