He resolved never again, by look or by sign, to interrupt the steady flow of this man's life. - Thomas Hardy

"Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe."

There was a change in Boldwood's exterior from its former impassibleness; and his face showed that he was now living outside his defences for the first time, and with a fearful sense of exposure. It is the usual experience of strong natures when they love.

And it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.