Tis my belief she’s a very good woman at bottom.” “She’s terrible deep, then. - Thomas Hardy

The only superiority in women that is tolerable to the rival sex is, as a rule, that of the unconscious kind; but a superiority which recognizes itself may sometimes please by suggesting possibilities of capture to the subordinated man.

but she remained more or less and ideal character, about whose form he began to weave curious and fantastic day-dreams.

The sky was clear — remarkably clear — and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.