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...RTH BY E DITH WHARTON A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION House of Mirth by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ... E DITH WHARTON A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION House of Mirth by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...CS SERIES PUBLICATION House of Mirth by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ERIES PUBLICATION House of Mirth by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fr... ...Bart. It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing in town a... ...en her to expose herself to the crude air of the morning. To the remaining members of the party Lily gave no special thought; wherever they were, they... ...ing place, in a church packed with fashion and festooned with orchids, the representatives of the press were threading their way, note-book in hand, t... ...nd less clear than any natural affinities would warrant; and both appeared united in the effort to cultivate Freddy V an Osburgh’s growing taste for M... ...best; but he was as incapable as herself of an uncritical return to former states of feeling. There remained to her, as she had told him, the upliftin...

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...Introduction: In September of the year during the February of which Hawthorne had completed ?The Scarlet Letter,? he began ?The House of the Seven Gables.? Meanwhile, he had removed from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he occu...

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