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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 presence, yet lost the sense of when he was not with her. Its expression was now so vivid that for the first time he seemed to see before him the real Lily Bart, divested of all the trivialities of her little world, and catching for a moment a note of that eternal harmony of which her beauty was a part.”

Love Beauty Grace Elegance Edith Wharton The House Of Mirth Lily Bart Lawrence Selden

Book:The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“But he could never be long without trying to find a reason for what she was doing . . .”

Edith Wharton The House Of Mirth Lily Bart Lawrence Selden

Book:The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth