at his first word of reassurance, she had dropped back into the usual, as a too adventurous child takes refuge in its mother's arms." Chapter 16, pg. Quote 16: "But in another moment she seemed to have descended from her womanly eminence to helpless and timorous girlhood. All through the night he pursued through those enchanting pages the vision of a woman who had the face of Ellen Olenska. Quote 15: "He took it up, and found himself plunged in an atmosphere unlike any he had ever breathed in books so warm, so rich, and yet so ineffably tender, that it gave a new and haunting beauty to the most elementary of human passions. But you couldn't make a man like Winsett see that and that was why the New York of literary clubs and exotic restaurants, though a first shake made it seem more of a kaleidoscope, turnedout, in the end, to be a smaller box, with a more monotonous pattern, than the assembled atoms of Fifth Avenue." Chapter 14, pg. Quote 14: "A gentleman simply stayed at home and abstained.
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a haunting horror of doing the same thing every day at the same hour besieged his brain." Chapter 10, pg. Quote 12: "What if, when he had bidden May Welland to open (her eyes,) they could only look out blankly at blankness?" Chapter 10, pg. But they did not look like her - there was something too rich, too strong, in their fiery beauty." Chapter 9, pg. Quote 11: "He had never seen any as sun-golden before, and his first impulse was to send them to May instead of the lilies. But beyond that his imagination could not travel." Chapter 9, pg. Quote 10: "The young man felt that his fate was sealed: for the rest of his life he would go up every evening between the cast-iron railings of that greenish-yellow doorstep, and pass through a Pompeian vestibule into a hall with a wainscoting of varnished yellow wood.
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Quote 9: "But there was about her the mysterious authority of beauty, a sureness in the carriage of the head, the movement of the eyes, which, without being in the least theatrical, struck him as highly trainhed and full of a conscious power." Chapter 8, pg.
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Quote 8: "'It shows what Society has come to.'" Chapter 7, pg. Quote 7: "That terrifying product of the social system he belonged to and believed in, the young girl who knew nothing and expected everything, looked back at him like a stranger through May Welland's familiar features and once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas." Chapter 6, pg.
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Quote 6: "'Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences." Chapter 5, pg. it spared them the embarrassment of her presence, and the faint shadow that her unhappy past might seem to shed on their radiant future." Chapter 4, pg. Quote 5: "To the general relief the Countess Olenska was not present in her grandmother's drawing-room. Quote 4: "'I shall never let her see by the least sign that I am conscious of there being a shadow of a shade on poor Ellen Olenska's reputation." Chapter 3, pg. Quote 3: "The persons of their world lived in an atmosphere of faint implications and pale delicacies, and the fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to the young man to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done." Chapter 2, pg. Quote 2: "'I didn't think the Mingott's would have tried it on.'" Chapter 1, pg. ' he thought, somewhat hazily confusing the scene of his projected honeymoon with the masterpieces of literature which it would be his manly privilege to reveal to his bride." Chapter 1, pg.
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'We'll read italicsFaust italics together. Quote 1: "And he contemplated her own absorbed young face with a thrill of possessorship in which pride in his own masculine initiation was mingled with a tender reverence for her abysmal purity.