there was yet another date, of greater importance to her than those; that of her own death, when all these charms would had disappeared; a day which … - Thomas Hardy

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there was yet another date, of greater importance to her than those; that of her own death, when all these charms would had disappeared; a day which lay sly and unseen among all the other days of the year, giving no sign or sound when she annually passed over it; but not the less surely there