An Elizabeth in brain and a Mary Stuart in spirit. - Thomas Hardy

Perhaps to know her would be to cure himself of this unexpected and unauthorized passion.

"The Dog-star and Aldebaran, pointing to the restless Pleiades, were half-way up the Southern sky, and between them hung Orion, which gorgeous constellation never burnt more vividly than now, as it soared forth above the rim of the landscape. Castor and Pollux with their quiet shine were almost on the meridian: the barren and gloomy Square of Pegasus was creeping round to the north-west; far away through the plantation Vega sparkled like a lamp suspended amid the leafless trees, and Cassiopeia's chair stood daintily poised on the uppermost boughs. "One o'clock," said Gabriel."

In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was, and forgot that the defective can be more than the entire