Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.
Thomas HardyHe Looked and smelt like Autumn's very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with fruit-stains, his hands clammy with the sweet juice of apples, his hat sprinkled with pips, and everywhere about him the sweet atmosphere of cider which at its first return each season has such an indescribable fascination for those who have been born and bred among the orchards.
Thomas HardyO, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
Thomas Hardy