War makes good history but peace is poor reading.
Bless thy simplicity, Tess
Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.
And yet to every bad there is a worse.