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1  Miss Bart received the warning with a smile.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
2  Miss Bart continued to smile without annoyance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
3  Miss Bart's countenance did not reflect the smile.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
4  He answered her smile, which rested on him vividly.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
5  Something in his smile told her he had not forgotten.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
6  Lily pushed aside her finished work with a dry smile.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
7  As they reached the gates of Bellomont she turned to Trenor with a smile.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
8  Lily's eye brightened, and a faint smile relaxed the drawn lines of her mouth.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
9  Lily started from her attitude of absorption; her smile faded and she began to move toward the lane.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
10  His smile deepened as he added with increasing assurance: "But you must let me take you to the station."
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
11  In the indistinctness the little red gleam lit up the lower part of her face, and he saw her mouth tremble into a smile.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
12  And Mrs. Dorset leaned back against her travelling cushions with a smile which made Lily wish there had been no vacant seat beside her own.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
13  But she put aside the thought with a smile at her own fears, and hastened downward, wondering if she should find a cab short of Fifth Avenue.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
14  She paused before him with a smile which seemed at once designed to admit him to her familiarity, and to remind him of the restrictions it imposed.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
15  She could not even pause to smile over the heiress's view of a colossal fortune as a mere shelter against want: her mind was filled with the vision of what that shelter might have been to her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
16  Lily considered with interest the expression of their faces: the girl's turned toward her companion's like an empty plate held up to be filled, while the man lounging at her side already betrayed the encroaching boredom which would presently crack the thin veneer of his smile.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
17  Lily paused as she caught sight of the group; for a moment she seemed about to withdraw, but thinking better of this, she announced her approach by a slight shake of her skirts which made the couple raise their heads, Mrs. Dorset with a look of frank displeasure, and Selden with his usual quiet smile.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
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