Aggressive Fancy working spells Upon a mind o’erwrought. - Thomas Hardy

But the bitter thing is, that when I was rich I didn't need what I could have, and now I be poor I can't have what I need!

December morning — sunny and exceedingly mild — might have regarded Gabriel

A profile was visible against the dull monochrome of cloud around her; and it was as though side shadows from the features of Sappho and Mrs. Siddons had converged upwards from the tomb to form an image like neither but suggesting both.