"Her suspense was terrible."

Tension, Suspense, Fear, Emotion, Uncertainty

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"When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines."

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"Geoffrey's own heart felt inconveniently large just then."

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"What a strange sort of love, to be entirely free from that quality of selfishness which is frequently the chief constituent of the passion, and sometimes it's only one!"

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"Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?"

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"It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet."

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"It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession; with totally differing aims the method is the same on both sides. But the understood incentive on the woman's part was wanting here. Besides, Bathsheba's position as absolute mistress of a farm and house was a novel one, and the novelty had not yet begun to wear off."

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"Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike."

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"She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects."

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"Tess was awake before dawn - at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save for one prophetic bird who sings with a clear-voiced conviction that he at least knows the correct time of day, the rest preserving silence as if equally convinced that he is mistaken."

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