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Geoffrey's own heart felt inconveniently large just then.

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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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I shall be up before you are awake; I shall be afield before you are up; and I shall have breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonis...more

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I know women are taught by other women that they must never admit the full truth to a man. But the highest form of affection is based on full sincerit...more

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Love lives on propinquity but dies on contact.

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We discern a grand force in the lover which he lacks whilst a free man, but there is a breadth of vision in the free man which in the lover we vainly ...more

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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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When women are secret they are secret indeed and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.

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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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This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexe...more

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Kiss my foot, sir; my face is for mouths of consequence.

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Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away he...more