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1  The fact that you don't want to marry me.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
2  He could never marry a girl who WASN'T nice.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
3  She said I was trying to marry George Dorset.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
4  When a girl's as good-looking as that she'd better marry; then no questions are asked.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
5  Cornelia Van Alstyne was so surprised: she had heard that you were to marry young Gryce.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
6  If she did not marry Percy Gryce, the day might come when she would have to be civil to such men as Rosedale.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
7  And I'm bound to say Lily DOES distract it: I believe he'd marry her tomorrow if he found out there was anything wrong with Bertha.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
8  She would not indeed have cared to marry a man who was merely rich: she was secretly ashamed of her mother's crude passion for money.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
9  Beat about the question as she would, she knew the outcome of it was that she must try to marry Rosedale; and in this conviction she was fortified by an unexpected visit from George Dorset.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
10  She was quite sure that he would come and see her again, and almost sure that, if he did, she could bring him to the point of offering to marry her on the terms she had previously rejected.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
11  There had been a germ of truth in his declaration to Gerty Farish that he had never wanted to marry a "nice" girl: the adjective connoting, in his cousin's vocabulary, certain utilitarian qualities which are apt to preclude the luxury of charm.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
12  An Italian Prince, rich and the real thing, wanted to marry her; but just at the critical moment a good-looking step-son turned up, and Lily was silly enough to flirt with him while her marriage-settlements with the step-father were being drawn up.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
13  Since she could not marry him, it would be kinder to him, as well as easier for herself, to write a line amicably evading his request to see her: he was not the man to mistake such a hint, and when next they met it would be on their usual friendly footing.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 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  Lily, perceiving all this, understood that he would marry her at once, on the sole condition of a reconciliation with Mrs. Dorset; and the temptation was the less easy to put aside because, little by little, circumstances were breaking down her dislike for Rosedale.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
16  She sent for Miss Jane, and made a dreadful scene; and Jack Stepney and Herbert Melson, who were there too, told Miss Jane that Freddy was threatening to marry some dreadful woman to whom Ned had introduced him, and that they could do nothing with him because now he's of age he has his own money.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
17  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 Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
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