Well — I'm an outsider to the end of my days! - Thomas Hardy

To be conscious that the end of the dream is approaching, and yet has not absolutely come, is one of the most wearisome as well as the most curious stages along the course between the beginning of a passion and its end.

Most of the misery had been generated by her conventional aspect, and not by her innate sensations.

"Nature does not often say "See!" to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply "Here!" to a body's cry of "Where?