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

I don't see why a maid should take a husband when she's bold enough to fight her own battles,

The pain she experienced from the almost absolute obliviousness to her existence that was shown by the pair of them became at times half dissipated by her sense of its humourousness.

To be conscious that the end of the dream is approaching, and yet has not absolutely come, is one of the most wearisome as well as the most curious stages along the course between the beginning of a passion and its end.