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f47904a 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. love lawrence-selden lily-bart edith-wharton the-house-of-mirth elegance grace Edith Wharton
8b38a86 But he could never be long without trying to find a reason for what she was doing . . . lawrence-selden lily-bart the-house-of-mirth Edith Wharton