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

I shall be up before you are awake; I shall be afield before you are up; and I shall have breakfaste...

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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 ca...

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

Don't take on about her, Gabriel. What difference does it make whose sweetheart she is, since she ca...

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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and tha...

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

He is as good as anybody in this parish! He is very particular, too, about going to church-yes, he i...

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He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all...

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When the love-led man had ceased from his labours Bathsheba came and looked him in the face.'Gabriel...

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Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and...

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Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now a...

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If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard ...

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Her suspense was terrible.

The curious double strands in Farfrae's thread of life - the commercial and the romantic - were very...

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The Scotchman seemed hardly the same Farfrae who had danced with her, and walked with her, in a deli...

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Yet her experience had consisted less in a series of pure disappointments than in a series of substi...

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And all this while the subtle-souled girl asking herself why she was born, why sitting in a room, an...

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Don't for God's sake speak as saint to sinner, but as you yourself to me myself - poor me!

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Thomas HardyThomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles; The Mayor of Casterbridge; Far from the Madding Crowd