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1 My relation to Mrs. Hatch is one I have no reason to be ashamed of.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
2 He could still discern the outline of facts, though his own relation to them had changed.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
3 And as she looked back she saw that there had never been a time when she had had any real relation to life.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
4 Miss Farish's heart was a fountain of tender illusions, Miss Stepney's a precise register of facts as manifested in their relation to herself.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
5 Ned Silverton's relation to Stancy seemed, for instance, closer and less clear than any natural affinities would warrant; and both appeared united in the effort to cultivate Freddy Van Osburgh's growing taste for Mrs. Hatch.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
6 Still, Dorset's spasmodic temper, and his wife's reckless disregard of appearances, gave the situation a peculiar insecurity; and it was less from the sense of any special relation to the case than from a purely professional zeal, that Selden resolved to guide the pair to safety.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
7 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 MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 4