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House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
2 We can't stay here; but let me take you somewhere for a cup of tea.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
3 If Selden had come at Mrs. Dorset's call, it was at her own that he would stay.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
4 Gerty remained silent, and she continued: "I stayed on to see what would happen."
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
5 The air of the place stifled him, and he wondered why he had stayed in it so long.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
6 He had halted opposite the Trenors' corner, and Selden perforce stayed his steps also.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
7 She stayed on partly for the comfort of Gerty Farish's nearness, and partly for lack of knowing where to go.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
8 Gerty had unconsciously adopted the soothing note of her trade: all personal feeling was merged in the sense of ministry, and experience had taught her that the bleeding must be stayed before the wound is probed.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
9 The few relatives who had stayed on, or returned, for the reading of Mrs. Peniston's will, had taken flight again that afternoon to Newport or Long Island; and not one of them had made any proffer of hospitality to Lily.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
10 Mr. Gryce had a constitutional dislike to what he called "committing himself," and tenderly as he cherished his health, he evidently concluded that it was safer to stay out of reach of pen and ink till chance released him from Mrs. Fisher's toils.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
11 She had arranged to break the length of her stay with her new friends by one or two visits to other acquaintances as recent; and on her return from this somewhat depressing excursion she was immediately conscious that Mrs. Dorset's influence was still in the air.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
12 She had once picked up, in a house where she was staying, a translation of the EUMENIDES, and her imagination had been seized by the high terror of the scene where Orestes, in the cave of the oracle, finds his implacable huntresses asleep, and snatches an hour's repose.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 13