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We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop.
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women
edith-wharton
the-house-of-mirth
fashion
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Edith Wharton |
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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 which her beauty was a part.
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love
lawrence-selden
lily-bart
edith-wharton
the-house-of-mirth
elegance
grace
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Edith Wharton |
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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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lily-bart
edith-wharton
the-house-of-mirth
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Edith Wharton |
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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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friends
edith-wharton
the-house-of-mirth
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Edith Wharton |