“Why must a girl pay so dearly for her least escape from routine? Why could one never do a natural thing without having to screen it behind a structure of artifice?”
― The House of Mirth
― The House of Mirth
“Most timidities have such secret compensations”
― The House of Mirth
― The House of Mirth
“Something in his attitude of conscious absorption told her that he was aware of her presence: no one had ever been quite so engrossed in an evening paper! She guessed that he was too shy to come up to her”
― The House of Mirth
― The House of Mirth
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