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The Scotchman seemed hardly the same Farfrae who had danced with her, and walked with her, in a delicate poise between love and friendship - that period in the history of a love when alone it can be said to be unalloyed with pain.

~ Thomas Hardy

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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 care, so long as it was warm.

~ Thomas Hardy

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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 what had been granted her she had not desired. So she viewed with an approach to equanimity the now cancelled days when Donald had been her undeclared lover, and wondered what unwished-for thing Heaven might send her in place of him.

~ Thomas Hardy

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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 other possible shape.

~ Thomas Hardy

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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.

~ Thomas Hardy

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Her suspense was terrible.

~ Thomas Hardy

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The curious double strands in Farfrae's thread of life - the commercial and the romantic - were very distinct at times. Like the colours in a variegated cord those contrasts could be seen intertwisted, yet not mingling.

~ Thomas Hardy

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