"Geoffrey's own heart felt inconveniently large just then.

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 blow so strongly that it stops the breath.
~ Thomas Hardy ~












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