LILY in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
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1 Lily sank with a sigh into one of the shabby leather chairs.
2 "I beg your pardon," said Lily, intending by her politeness to convey a criticism of the other's manner.
3 In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart.
4 Her own stout person and its surrounding implements took up so much room that Lily, to pass her, had to gather up her skirts and brush against the wall.
5 As a spectator, he had always enjoyed Lily Bart; and his course lay so far out of her orbit that it amused him to be drawn for a moment into the sudden intimacy which her proposal implied.
6 There was nothing new about Lily Bart, yet he could never see her without a faint movement of interest: it was characteristic of her that she always roused speculation, that her simplest acts seemed the result of far-reaching intentions.
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