More from Thomas Hardy

  1. To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far …
  2. It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
  3. Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud shutting out the sky was as a tent which had the whole heath for its floor.
  4. The sovereign brilliancy of Sirius pierced the eye with a steely glitter, the star called Capella was yellow, Aldebaran and Betelgueux shon…
  5. In fact, precisely at this transitional point of its nightly roll into darkness the great and particular glory of the Egdon waste began, an…
  6. Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rat…
  7. The place became full of a watchful intentness now; for when other things sank blooding to sleep the heath appeared slowly to awake and lis…
  8. The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to dev…

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