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1  Their walk in the Park had not been a success.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
2  Well, it would have been difficult; we should have had to walk by turns.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
3  Ah, then I shall have to walk; I promised Hilda and Muriel to go to church with them.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
4  No; but your taking a walk with me is only another way of making use of your material.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
5  That walk she did not mean to miss; one glance at the bills on her writing-table was enough to recall its necessity.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
6  She had excused herself from the walk on the plea of a headache: the horrid headache which, in the morning, had prevented her venturing to church.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
7  They had not met since their Sunday afternoon walk at Bellomont, and that episode was still so vivid to her that she could hardly believe him to be less conscious of it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
8  And with a bright nod to the couple on whom she had intruded, Miss Bart strolled through the glass doors and carried her rustling grace down the long perspective of the garden walk.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
9  Once confronted with it, however, she went the full length of its consequences; and these had never been more clearly present to her than when, the next afternoon, she set out for a walk with Rosedale.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
10  It was true that she meant to use the accident of his presence as part of a very definite effect; or that, at least, was the secret pretext she had found for breaking her promise to walk with Mr. Gryce.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
11  A glimpse of Mr. Gryce's crestfallen face even suggested that she had done wisely in absenting herself, since the disappointment he so candidly betrayed would surely whet his appetite for the afternoon walk.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
12  Even to the eyes of infancy, Mrs. Hudson Bart had appeared young; but Lily could not recall the time when her father had not been bald and slightly stooping, with streaks of grey in his hair, and a tired walk.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
13  He knew that Perseus's task is not done when he has loosed Andromeda's chains, for her limbs are numb with bondage, and she cannot rise and walk, but clings to him with dragging arms as he beats back to land with his burden.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
14  Lily, going to bed early, had left the couple to themselves; and it seemed part of the general mystery in which she moved that more than an hour should elapse before she heard Bertha walk down the silent passage and regain her room.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
15  Their appearance confirmed the impression that the show had been staged regardless of expense, and emphasized its resemblance to one of those "costume-plays" in which the protagonists walk through the passions without displacing a drapery.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
16  These thoughts so engaged her that she fell into a gait hardly likely to carry her to church before the sermon, and at length, having passed from the gardens to the wood-path beyond, so far forgot her intention as to sink into a rustic seat at a bend of the walk.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
17  She had an idea that the sight of her in a grey gown of devotional cut, with her famous lashes drooped above a prayer-book, would put the finishing touch to Mr. Gryce's subjugation, and render inevitable a certain incident which she had resolved should form a part of the walk they were to take together after luncheon.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
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