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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.

~ Thomas Hardy

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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 is not possible without possession; with totally differing aims the method is the same on both sides. But the understood incentive on the woman's part was wanting here. Besides, Bathsheba's position as absolute mistress of a farm and house was a novel one, and the novelty had not yet begun to wear off.

~ Thomas Hardy

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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 winningly, and not troubling to bring her lips quite together again at the end, because there was going to be another smile soon.'I will,' said Gabriel.And she smiled on him again.

~ Thomas Hardy

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

~ Thomas Hardy

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

~ Thomas Hardy

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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 myself,' said Gabriel.

~ Thomas Hardy

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