Thomas Hardy

if you could only half know how I loved him—how anxious I was to have him—and how wrung I was between caring so much for him and my wish to be fair to him!"

You were her first love?"

"Of course."

IV

And they bore to the bluff, and alighted—
A dim-discerned train
Of sprites without mould,
Frameless souls none might touch or might hold—
On the ledge by the turreted lantern, farsighted
By men of the main.

strength and bustle build up a firm. But judgment and knowledge are what keep it established.

Like all people who have known rough times, light-heartedness seemed to her too irrational and inconsequent to be indulged in except as a reckless dram now and then

she had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly. She felt none of those ups and downs of spirit which beset so many people without cause

To keep in the rear of opportunity in matters of indulgence is as valuable a habit as to keep abreast of opportunity in matters of enterprise.

And if the person should say anything to you, be civil to him or her, as if you did not mind it—so you'll take the clever person's laugh away."

Fancies find rooms in the strongest minds.

I’ll make her my wife, or upon my soul I shall be good for nothing!