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  1. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

    In the rosy glow it diffused her companions seemed full of amiable qualities. She liked their elegance; their lightness, their lack of emphasis: even the self-assurance which at times was so like obtuseness now seemed the natural sign of social ascendency. They were lords of the only world she cared for, and they were ready to admit her to their ranks and let her lord it with them. Already she felt within her a stealing allegiance to their standards, an acceptance of their limitations, a disbelief in the things they did not believe in, a contemptuous pity for the people who were not able to live as they lived.
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  2. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

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

    Ah, he would take her beyond---beyond the ugliness, the pettiness, the attrition and corrosion of her soul."
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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

    Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend of the coast, sent across the bay a shaft of brightness which paled to ashes in the red glitter of the illuminated boats.
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  8. 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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  9. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

    We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop.
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  10. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

    Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.
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