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Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.

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She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to ...more

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You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all.

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Done because we are too many.

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Her heart longed for some ark into which it could fly and be at rest. Rough or smooth she did not care, so long as it was warm.

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You know, mistress, that I love you, and shall love you always

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Don't take on about her, Gabriel. What difference does it make whose sweetheart she is, since she can't be yours?''That's the very thing I say to myse...more

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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage ...more

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But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are.

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He is as good as anybody in this parish! He is very particular, too, about going to church-yes, he is!''I am afeard nobody ever saw him there. I never...more

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This good-fellowship—camaraderie—usually occurring through similarity of pursuits, is unfortunately seldom superadded to love between the sexes, becau...more

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This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock.

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He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first ...more

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He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.

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When the love-led man had ceased from his labours Bathsheba came and looked him in the face.'Gabriel, will you you stay on with me?' she said, smiling...more