The House of Mirth Book Two Chapter 06

from The Edith Wharton Library · host Edith Wharton

In which Miss Bart, wandering along the seclusion of a country lane, encounters George Dorset, whose desperate entreaties and troubled past reawaken in her a complicated mixture of pity and fear, setting her against the quiet yet insistent pressures of society embodied by figures like Mrs Gormer and Mrs Fisher. Amidst whispered intrigues and the somber contrasts of fortune and friendship, she weighs the precarious paths before her, haunted by the need for alliance in a world where kindness is often a guise for calculation.

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