“ Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year round were glowing little fires. Thomas Hardy
“ Well, here I am, just come home; a fellow gone to the bad; though I had the best intentions in the world at one time. Now I am melancholy mad, what with drinking and one thing and another. Thomas Hardy
“ But I wish to be enlightened.''Let me caution you against it.''Is enlightenment on the subject, then, so terrible?''Yes, indeed.'She laughingly declared that nothing could have so piqued her curiosity… Thomas Hardy
“ She had not heard him enter, and hardly realized his presence there. She was yawning, and he saw the red interior of her mouth as if it had been a snake's. She had stretched one arm so high above her… Thomas Hardy
“ The people who had turned their heads turned them again as the service proceeded; and at last observing her they whispered to each other. She knew what their whispers were about, grew sick at heart, a… Thomas Hardy
“ The only exercise that Tess took at this time was after dark; and it was then, when out in the woods, that she seemed least solitary... She had no fear of the shadows; her sole idea seemed to be to sh… Thomas Hardy
“ The physiognomy of a deserted highway expresses solitude to a degree that is not reached by mere dales or downs, and bespeaks a tomb-like stillness more emphatic than that of glades and pools. The con… Thomas Hardy
“ All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; and some spirit within her rose automatically as the sap in the twigs. It was unexpected youth, surg… Thomas Hardy
“ Being a harp which the least wind of emotion from another’s heart could make to vibrate as readily as a radical stir in her own. Thomas Hardy
“ They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men. Thomas Hardy
“ 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. Thomas Hardy
“ Some of the dairy people, who were also out of doors on the first Sunday evening after their engagement, heard her impulsive speeches, ecstasized to fragments, though they were too far off to hear the… Thomas Hardy
“ An average woman is in this superior to an average man—that she never instigates, only responds. Thomas Hardy
“ And all this while the subtle-souled girl asking herself why she was born, why sitting in a room, and blinking at the candle; why things around her had taken the shape they wore in preference to every… Thomas Hardy
“ Yet her experience had consisted less in a series of pure disappointments than in a series of substitutions. Continually it had happened that what she had desired had not been granted her, and that wh… Thomas Hardy
