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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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seldon
lily-bart
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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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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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truth
lily-bart
the-house-of-mirth
reputation
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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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8b38a86
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But he could never be long without trying to find a reason for what she was doing . . .
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lawrence-selden
lily-bart
the-house-of-mirth
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Edith Wharton |
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8d87e65
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Oh, Gerty, I wasn't meant to be good.
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goodness
gerty-farish
lily-bart
the-house-of-mirth
reputation
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Edith Wharton |