Brains Author: Edith Wharton Copy Quote More from Edith Wharton “Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning eno…” “For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassit…” “Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholster…” “Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just tou…”