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1  Well, that's about the size of it, I suppose.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
2  I didn't suppose I should have to put it so plainly.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
3  Why, to get as much as one can out of life, I suppose.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
4  I suppose it's very beautiful, but his women are so dreadfully fat.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
5  My dear, you look tired; I suppose it's the excitement of the wedding.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
6  In her youth, girls had not been supposed to require close supervision.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
7  "For I suppose that is what you do wish," she continued, in the same quiet tone.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
8  My dear Lily, I haven't had time for a word with you, and now I suppose you are just off.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
9  By Jove, I promised to join the Duchess for supper at the LONDON HOUSE; but it's past twelve, and I suppose they've all scattered.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
10  She vaguely supposed that, to raise the first sum, he had borrowed on her securities; but this was a point over which her curiosity did not linger.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
11  Besides, Lady Cressida is the Duchess of Beltshire's sister, and I naturally supposed she was the same sort; but you never can tell in those English families.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
12  She supposed that Mr. Gryce had at last found means to escape from his predicament, and she smiled at the significance of his coming to join her instead of beating an instant retreat to the fire-side.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
13  I suppose," she rejoined, "that by a false position you mean one outside of what we call society; but you must remember that I had been excluded from those sacred precincts long before I met Mrs. Hatch.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
14  She knew that Gerty Farish admired her blindly, and therefore supposed that she inspired the same sentiments in Grace Stepney, whom she classified as a Gerty Farish without the saving traits of youth and enthusiasm.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
15  In the words preceding it she had conjectured, at most, an allusion to her supposed influence over George Dorset; nor did the astonishing indelicacy of the reference diminish the likelihood of Rosedale's resorting to it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
16  In her ignorance of legal procrastinations she had supposed that her legacy would be paid over within a few days of the reading of her aunt's will; and after an interval of anxious suspense, she wrote to enquire the cause of the delay.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
17  Even fortunes supposed to be independent of the market either betrayed a secret dependence on it, or suffered from a sympathetic affection: fashion sulked in its country houses, or came to town incognito, general entertainments were discountenanced, and informality and short dinners became the fashion.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
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