Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.
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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 ...
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Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike.
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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 ...
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If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later.
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Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year round were glowing little fires.
