Both Uses of
sequel
in
The House of Mirth
- It was all the more agreeable to find that this reasonableness was maintained only at the cost of not seeing her; but, though nothing in life was as sweet as the sense of her power over him, she saw the danger of allowing the episode of the previous night to have a sequel.†
Chpt 1.13
- His state was one to produce first weariness and then impatience in his hearer; and when their talk was over, Selden began to feel that he had done his utmost, and might justifiably wash his hands of the sequel.†
Chpt 2.3 *
Definition:
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(sequel) something that follows and continues something else -- especially a film or book
or more rarely: something that follows as a result of something else