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Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else.

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Growing, Fifth Avenue, Minutes

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THE LUXE IS . . . Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn. Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions. White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups. This is Manhattan in 1899.

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Girl, Lying, Party

Anna Godbersen (2009). “The Luxe”, Harper Collins

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Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere.

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Unconventional, Wells

Anna Godbersen (2014). “The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor”, p.65, Harper Collins

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She should have know that villains often come with pretty faces.

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Should Have, Faces, Villain

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That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams. The girls of 1929.

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Girl, Dream, Eye

Anna Godbersen (2010). “Bright Young Things”, p.3, Harper Collins

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After Henry's treatment of her she wasn't sure that men could honestly love women but she wanted to believe it. She wanted to be told pretty things and for the frightening clip of her heart to slow to something more reasonable.

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Believe, Heart, Men

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Girls took to dressing like boys, and though women had obtained the vote, we had swiftly moved on to pursuing flashier freedoms: necking in cars and smoking cigarettes and walking down city streets in flesh colored stockings.

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Girl, Boys, Cities

Anna Godbersen (2010). “Bright Young Things”, p.2, Harper Collins

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I can't imagine what my life was before. I can't imagine ever being without you for very long again.

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Long, Imagine, Without You

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But in that moment she realized how false most smiles were and what a tremendous waste of time.

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Waste, Wasting Time, Moments

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A lady must retain always her composure. Even in a rainstorm, she must appear joyous and dry. When she loses her composure, then the respect of her peers and her staff will follow in short order.

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Order, Peers, Dry

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In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.

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New York, Interesting, Looks

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It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she most confides in—her friends, of course, and her sister, if she has one.

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Winning, Men, Wife

Anna Godbersen (2014). “The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor”, p.48, Harper Collins

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Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath her fitted bodice.

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Heart, Race, Deflation

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Henry was thinking of the younger Holland sister of the way she could go from being an impetuous girl to a knowing woman in a few seconds and never lose the stars in her eyes.

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Girl, Stars, Eye

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What was it about that short creature with her wild hair and spurious air of purity and why would anyone much less two men love her and to such disastrous ends.

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Men, Hair, Two

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There was plenty of life left and if he had to he would use it all to get her back. The time had passed for making promises to her-all that was left for him was to act.

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Promise, Use, Plenty

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She had rarely been near Henry since then, and the sight of him now was like a concentrated dose.

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Sight, Dose

Anna Godbersen (2009). “Rumors”, p.16, Harper Collins

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Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could at least attempt sleep and that if she dreamed she might then finally be with Henry.

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Sleep, Might, Rooms

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The value of secrets is ever fluctuating although ladies who have been in society for a long time learn that a secret kept can be worth more than a secret told.

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Long, Secret, Has Beens

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Good girls hold their heads high by daylight, Their grace and their virtue soaring with kites, While bad girls slink along in their shame- Everyone stares at them, everyone blames. But those bad girls sleep soundly at night, Ne'er do their consciences wake them in a fright, While our good girls toss and they turn- They lay awake for those who will burn.

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Girl, Sleep, Night

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That was the way love was, she guessed-it left you always unsteady on your feet.

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Feet, Way, Left

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There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.

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Envy, Pleasure, Scales

Anna Godbersen (2014). “The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor”, p.37, Harper Collins

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Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.

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Marriage, Girl, Mother

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She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love and yet the narrator went on describing her desire.

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Strong, Writing, Character

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That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines she'd always believed took their fate into their own hands.

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Book, Writing, Fate

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