Yet Clare's love was doubtless ethereal to a fault, imaginative to impracticability. With these natures, corporeal presence is sometimes less appeali… - Thomas Hardy

Biblioll College. Sir, — I have read your letter with interest; and, judging from your description of yourself as a working-man, I venture to think that you will have a much better chance of success in life by remaining in your own sphere and sticking to your trade than by adopting any other course. That, therefore, is what I advise you to do. Yours faithfully, T. Tetuphenay. To Mr. J. Fawley, Stone-mason.

That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!

Work hard and be poor, do nothing and get more.