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

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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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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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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 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

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Suddenly an unexpected series of sounds began to be heard in this place up against the starry sky. They were the notes of Oak´s flute. It came from th...more

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Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. Whi...more

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Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened...more