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  1. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

    Oh, Gerty, I wasn't meant to be good.
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  2. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

    But he could never be long without trying to find a reason for what she was doing . . .
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  3. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

    How beautiful it was---and how she loved beauty! She had always felt that her sensibility in this direction made up for certain obtuseness of feeling of which she was less proud."
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  4. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

    You asked me just now for the truth---well, the truth about any girl is that once she's talk about she's done for; and the more she explains her case the worse it looks.
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  5. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

    The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in her beauty that Selden always felt in her presence, yet lost the sense of when he was not with her. Its expression was now so vivid that for the first time he seemed to see before him the real Lily Bart, divested of all the trivialities of her little world, and catching for a moment a note of that eternal harmony of whichher beauty was a part."
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  6. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

    He had a confused sense that she must have cost a great deal to make, that a great many dull and ugly people must, in some mysterious way, have been sacrificed to produce her.
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