Theirs was that substantial affection which arises (if any arises at all) when the two who are thrown together begin first by knowing the rougher sid… - Thomas Hardy

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Theirs was that substantial affection which arises (if any arises at all) when the two who are thrown together begin first by knowing the rougher sides of each other’s character, and not the best till further on, the romance growing up in the interstices of a mass of hard prosaic reality.