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I hate to be what is called a clever girl—there are too many of that sort now!

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But you shouldn't have let her. That's the only way with these fanciful women that chaw high--innocent or guilty. She'd have come round in time. We al...more

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At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn...more

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you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.

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I have sometimes thought--that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know!

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--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phil...more

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He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to th...more

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Hence, when his name was casually mentioned by neighboring yeomen, the listener said, "Ah, Clym Yeobright: what is he doing now?' When the instinctive...more