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Yes - it was happiness she still wanted, and the glimpse she had caught of it made everything else of no account. One by one she had detached herself ...more

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Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

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Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. It would not have surprised them to fe...more

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We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop.

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In the rosy glow it diffused her companions seemed full of amiable qualities. She liked their elegance; their lightness, their lack of emphasis: even ...more

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Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend of the coast, sent acros...more

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Oh, Gerty, I wasn't meant to be good.

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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 presenc...more