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House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
2 Selden thanked him, but pleaded an engagement.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
3 Oh, thank you: I'm not particularly well, but Miss Haines was right.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
4 I was sure I shouldn't get any thanks for it, she returned with a flare of temper.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
5 She was aware that she had Lily to thank for it; and dull resentment was turned to active animosity.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
6 Instead of having to flatter, she would be flattered; instead of being grateful, she would receive thanks.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
7 "Oh, thanks," she stammered; and at that moment her eye caught a hansom drifting down Madison Avenue, and she hailed it with a desperate gesture.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
8 The feeling he had nourished and given prominence to was one of thankfulness for his escape: he was like a traveller so grateful for rescue from a dangerous accident that at first he is hardly conscious of his bruises.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
9 Once, however, she had had a special edition of the Sarum Rule printed in rubric and presented to every clergyman in the diocese; and the gilt album in which their letters of thanks were pasted formed the chief ornament of her drawing-room table.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
10 "Not that I ought to complain to-day, though," he went on after a moment, "for I did a very neat stroke of business, thanks to Stepney's friend Rosedale: by the way, Miss Lily, I wish you'd try to persuade Judy to be decently civil to that chap."
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 7