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1  Lily obeyed; she always obeyed when her mother spoke in that voice.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
2  It was a shock to her to learn afterward that he was but two years older than her mother.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
3  I really think, mother," she said reproachfully, "we might afford a few fresh flowers for luncheon.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
4  She sighed to think what her mother's fierce energies would have accomplished, had they been coupled with Mrs. Peniston's resources.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
5  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
6  Lily knew people who "lived like pigs," and their appearance and surroundings justified her mother's repugnance to that form of existence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
7  I was only saying," Lily began, "that I hate to see faded flowers at luncheon; and mother says a bunch of lilies-of-the-valley would not cost more than twelve dollars.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
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8  Lily, however, knew all about them: young Mr. Gryce's arrival had fluttered the maternal breasts of New York, and when a girl has no mother to palpitate for her she must needs be on the alert for herself.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
9  She knew that to betray any sense of superiority was a subtler form of the stupidity her mother denounced, and it did not take her long to learn that a beauty needs more tact than the possessor of an average set of features.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
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10  She and her mother had been seated at the luncheon-table, over the CHAUFROIX and cold salmon of the previous night's dinner: it was one of Mrs. Bart's few economies to consume in private the expensive remnants of her hospitality.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
11  Lily was feeling the pleasant languor which is youth's penalty for dancing till dawn; but her mother, in spite of a few lines about the mouth, and under the yellow waves on her temples, was as alert, determined and high in colour as if she had risen from an untroubled sleep.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
12  She knew that she hated dinginess as much as her mother had hated it, and to her last breath she meant to fight against it, dragging herself up again and again above its flood till she gained the bright pinnacles of success which presented such a slippery surface to her clutch.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
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13  Ruling the turbulent element called home was the vigorous and determined figure of a mother still young enough to dance her ball-dresses to rags, while the hazy outline of a neutral-tinted father filled an intermediate space between the butler and the man who came to wind the clocks.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
14  She accordingly installed herself in the Madison Avenue house, and Percy, whose sense of duty was not inferior to his mother's, spent all his week days in the handsome Broad Street office where a batch of pale men on small salaries had grown grey in the management of the Gryce estate, and where he was initiated with becoming reverence into every detail of the art of accumulation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
15  If she could have performed any little services for him, or have exchanged with him a few of those affecting words which an extensive perusal of fiction had led her to connect with such occasions, the filial instinct might have stirred in her; but her pity, finding no active expression, remained in a state of spectatorship, overshadowed by her mother's grim unflagging resentment.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
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16  Lily and her mother wandered from place to place, now paying long visits to relations whose house-keeping Mrs. Bart criticized, and who deplored the fact that she let Lily breakfast in bed when the girl had no prospects before her, and now vegetating in cheap continental refuges, where Mrs. Bart held herself fiercely aloof from the frugal tea-tables of her companions in misfortune.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
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17  After attaining his majority, and coming into the fortune which the late Mr. Gryce had made out of a patent device for excluding fresh air from hotels, the young man continued to live with his mother in Albany; but on Jefferson Gryce's death, when another large property passed into her son's hands, Mrs. Gryce thought that what she called his "interests" demanded his presence in New York.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
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