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1  Mrs. Fisher continued to observe her tentatively.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
2  Nine o'clock was an early hour for a visit, but Selden had passed beyond all such conventional observances.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
3  "I wanted to see you," he said; and she could not resist observing in reply that he had kept his wishes under remarkable control.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
4  "I guess they're worth more to you than to me, Miss, but the poor has got to live as well as the rich," she observed sententiously.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
5  These were the only traces of luxury, of that clinging to the minute observance of personal seemliness, which showed what her other renunciations must have cost.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
6  But the old habit of observing the conventions reminded her that it was time to bring their colloquy to an end, and she made a faint motion to push back her chair.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
7  The observance of Sunday at Bellomont was chiefly marked by the punctual appearance of the smart omnibus destined to convey the household to the little church at the gates.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
8  His craving was for the companionship of one whose point of view should justify his own, who should confirm, by deliberate observation, the truth to which his intuitions had leaped.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
9  During the little repast he kept the talk on his hostess, who, fluttered at being the centre of observation, shone as rosy as the candle-shades she had manufactured for the occasion.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
10  Lily had hinted to Mr. Gryce that this neglect of religious observances was repugnant to her early traditions, and that during her visits to Bellomont she regularly accompanied Muriel and Hilda to church.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
11  It was the moment for tact; for the quick bridging over of gaps; but Selden still leaned against the window, a detached observer of the scene, and under the spell of his observation Lily felt herself powerless to exert her usual arts.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
12  She had failed to observe the colour of Mrs. Van Osburgh's gown, and could not even say whether the old Van Osburgh Sevres had been used at the bride's table: Mrs. Peniston, in short, found that she was of more service as a listener than as a narrator.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
13  If there were compensating qualities in her wide frank glance and the freshness of her smile, these were qualities which only the sympathetic observer would perceive before noticing that her eyes were of a workaday grey and her lips without haunting curves.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
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  How this end had been attained was still matter for wonder, but it was clear that for the moment Miss Bart rested confidently in the result; and Selden tried to achieve the same view by telling himself that her opportunities for observation had been ampler than his own.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
16  Her small pale face seemed the mere setting of a pair of dark exaggerated eyes, of which the visionary gaze contrasted curiously with her self-assertive tone and gestures; so that, as one of her friends observed, she was like a disembodied spirit who took up a great deal of room.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
17  Something of her mother's fierce shrinking from observation and sympathy was beginning to develop in her, and the promiscuity of small quarters and close intimacy seemed, on the whole, less endurable than the solitude of a hall bedroom in a house where she could come and go unremarked among other workers.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
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