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1  And then one thing and another came, and my own troubles.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IX
2  Zeena, at any rate, did not apply the principle in her own case.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In III
3  Ethan was seized with horror of the scene and shame at his own share in it.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VII
4  Zeena waited a moment, as if giving him time to feel the full force of the contrast between his own excitement and her composure.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VII
5  Then he understood that it must be in pain: pain so excruciating that he seemed, mysteriously, to feel it shooting through his own body.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IX
6  When she came to take care of his mother she had seemed to Ethan like the very genius of health, but he soon saw that her skill as a nurse had been acquired by the absorbed observation of her own symptoms.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IV
7  The pains are clear away down to my ankles now, or I'd 'a' walked in to Starkfield on my own feet, sooner'n put you out, and asked Michael Eady to let me ride over on his wagon to the Flats, when he sends to meet the train that brings his groceries.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In III
8  It had been one of the wonders of their intercourse that from the first, she, the quicker, finer, more expressive, instead of crushing him by the contrast, had given him something of her own ease and freedom; but now he felt as heavy and loutish as in his student days, when he had tried to "jolly" the Worcester girls at a picnic.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In II