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She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to ...more

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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 astonis...more

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This good-fellowship—camaraderie—usually occurring through similarity of pursuits, is unfortunately seldom superadded to love between the sexes, becau...more

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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.

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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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I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books. I have mixed with them--one or two of them particularly-- almost as one of their own sex. I mean I...more

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That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!

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If Fancy's lips had been real cherries probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained.