The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

her husband would beg her to go over the list and see that no DIVORCEES were included, except those who had showed signs of penitence by being re-married to the very wealthy.

Though his popularity was of the quiet kind, felt rather than actively expressed among his friends, she had never mistaken his inconspicuousness for obscurity.

Mrs. Peniston always sat on a chair, never in it.

It was horrible of a young girl to let herself be talked about; however unfounded the charges against her, she must be to blame for their having been made.