You know, mistress, that I love you, and shall love you always - Thomas Hardy

I have sometimes thought — that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know!

Their lives were ruined, he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling which had no necessary connection with affinities that alone render a lifelong comradeship tolerable.

Half an hour afterwards Dick emerged from the inn, and if Fancy's lips had been real cherries, probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained.