MATTIE in Classic Quotes

1  The fact that admiration for his learning mingled with Mattie's wonder at what he taught was not the least part of his pleasure.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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2  Watching Mattie whirl down the floor from hand to hand he wondered how he could ever have thought that his dull talk interested her.

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3  Frome was in the habit of walking into Starkfield to fetch home his wife's cousin, Mattie Silver, on the rare evenings when some chance of amusement drew her to the village.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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4  Mattie Silver came from Stamford, and when she entered the Fromes' household to act as her cousin Zeena's aid it was thought best, as she came without pay, not to let her feel too sharp a contrast between the life she had left and the isolation of a Starkfield farm.

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5  When his wife first proposed that they should give Mattie an occasional evening out he had inwardly demurred at having to do the extra two miles to the village and back after his hard day on the farm; but not long afterward he had reached the point of wishing that Starkfield might give all its nights to revelry.

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6  Mattie Silver had lived under his roof for a year, and from early morning till they met at supper he had frequent chances of seeing her; but no moments in her company were comparable to those when, her arm in his, and her light step flying to keep time with his long stride, they walked back through the night to the farm.

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