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  1. Edith Wharton _ Ethan Frome

    But now he felt as if her blush had set a flaming guard about her.
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  2. Edith Wharton _ Ethan Frome

    Through the stillness they heard the church clock striking five."Oh, Ethan, it's time!" she cried.He drew her back to him. "Time for what? You don't suppose I'm going to leave you now?""If I missed my train where'd I go?""Where are you going if you catch it?"She stood silent, her hands lying cold and relaxed in his."What's the good of either of us going anywheres without the other one now?" he said.
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  3. Edith Wharton _ Ethan Frome

    Ruth Varnum was always as nervous as a rat; and, come to think of
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  4. Edith Wharton _ Ethan Frome

    He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters.
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  5. Edith Wharton _ Ethan Frome

    I had the sense that the deeper meaning of the story was in the gaps.
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  6. Edith Wharton _ Ethan Frome

    Denis Eady was the son of Michael Eady, the ambitious Irish grocer, whose suppleness and effrontery had given Starkfield its first notion of "smart" business methods, and whose new brick store testified to the success of the attempt. His son seemed likely to follow in his steps, and was meanwhile applying the same arts to the conquest of the Starkfield maidenhood. Hitherto Ethan Frome had been content to think him a mean fellow; but now he positively invited a horse-whipping.
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  7. Edith Wharton _ Ethan Frome

    Ethan looked at her with loathing. She was no longer the listless creature who had lived at his side in a state of sullen self-absorption, but a mysterious alien presence, an evil energy secreted from the long years of silent brooding. It was the sense
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  8. Edith Wharton _ Ethan Frome

    He was a poor man, the husband of a sickly woman, whom his desertion would leave alone and destitute; and even if he had had the heart to desert her he could have done so only by deceiving two kindly people who had pitied him.
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  9. Edith Wharton _ Ethan Frome

    There was in him a slumbering spark of sociability which the long Starkfield winters had not yet extinguished. By nature grave and inarticulate, he admired recklessness and gaiety in others and was warmed to the marrow by friendly human intercourse.
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  10. Edith Wharton _ Ethan Frome

    All the long misery of his baffled past, of his youth of failure, hardship and vain effort, rose up in his soul in bitterness and seemed to take shape before him in the woman who at every turn had barred his way.
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  11. Edith Wharton _ Ethan Frome

    and he could only follow the shadowy pantomime of their silhouettes
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  12. Edith Wharton _ Ethan Frome

    Yes: I was down there once, and for a good while afterward I could call up the sight of it in winter. But now it's all snowed under.
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