JUDY in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
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1 She would have smarter gowns than Judy Trenor, and far, far more jewels than Bertha Dorset.
2 "You see, Judy thinks I'm the safest person for you to be with; and she's quite right," she rejoined.
3 You're very kind, Judy: I'll lock up my cigarettes and wear that last year's dress you sent me this morning.
4 "Not that I ought to complain to-day, though," he went on after a moment, "for I did a very neat stroke of business, thanks to Stepney's friend Rosedale: by the way, Miss Lily, I wish you'd try to persuade Judy to be decently civil to that chap."
5 Judy knew it must be "horrid" for poor Lily to have to stop to consider whether she could afford real lace on her petticoats, and not to have a motor-car and a steam-yacht at her orders; but the daily friction of unpaid bills, the daily nibble of small temptations to expenditure, were trials as far out of her experience as the domestic problems of the char-woman.
6 She had seen the Wetheralls, the Trenor girls and Lady Cressida packed safely into the omnibus; Judy Trenor was sure to be having her hair shampooed; Carry Fisher had doubtless carried off her host for a drive; Ned Silverton was probably smoking the cigarette of young despair in his bedroom; and Kate Corby was certain to be playing tennis with Jack Stepney and Miss Van Osburgh.
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