Thomas Hardy Quote

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

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

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 myself,' said Gabriel.

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 astonish you all.

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. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not...

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.

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 because of her grief, nor sickened because of her...

He Looked and smelt like Autumn's very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with fruit-stains, his hands clammy with the sweet...

Done because we are too many.

It was a fatal omission of Boldwood's that he had never once told her she was beautiful.