I am only a peasant by position, not by nature! - Thomas Hardy

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

On the morning appointed for her departure Tess awoke before dawn — at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute save for one prophetic bird, who sings with a clear-voiced conviction that he at least knows the correct time of day, the rest preserving silence, as if equally convinced that he is mistaken.

How bewitched I was! How could there be any good in a woman that everybody spoke ill of?