gisburns

Updated: June 5, 2025

Among his own sex fewer regrets were heard, and in his own trade hardly a murmur. Professional jealousy? Perhaps. And so his resolve being apparently irrevocable the discussion gradually died out, and, as Mrs. Thwing had predicted, the price of "Gisburns" went up.

Edith Wharton - The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 2

Among his own sex fewer regrets were heard, and in his own trade hardly a murmur. Professional jealousy? Perhaps. And so his resolve being apparently irrevocable the discussion gradually died out, and, as Mrs. Thwing had predicted, the price of "Gisburns" went up.

Edith Wharton - The Hermit and the Wild Woman