The inspection of these chasms brought him a second pulsation of that old horror which he had used to describe to Viviette as produced in him by bott… - Thomas Hardy

...you have torn my life all to pieces.. made me a victim, a caged bird!

"Yes. I — I can't help liking her — just a little bit! She's not an ungenerous nature; and I am so glad her difficulties have all suddenly ended." She explained how Arabella had been summoned back, and would be enabled to retrieve her position. "I was referring to our old question. What Arabella has been saying to me has made me feel more than ever how hopelessly vulgar an institution legal marriage is — a sort of trap to catch a man — I can't bear to think of it. I wish I hadn't promised to let you put up the banns this morning!"

I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!