Thomas Hardy
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Illegal Daisies
Happy Pi Day The Mayor of CasterbridgeThomas Hardy A seer’s spirit took possession of Elizabeth, impelling her to sit down by the fire and divine events so surely from data already her own that they could be held as witnessed. She followed Lucetta thus mentally–saw her encounter Donald somewhere as if by chance–saw him wear Continue reading
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The Dazzling Crime of Wisdom
Far From the Madding CrowdThomas Hardy She had walked nearly two miles of her journey, watching how the day was retreating, and thinking how the time of deeds was quietly melting into the time of thought, to give place in its turn to the time of prayer and sleep, when she beheld advancing over Yalbury Continue reading
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We Can Shine Like The Sun
Tess of the d’UrbervillesThomas Hardy And by a sort of fascination the three girls, one after another, crept out of their beds, and came and stood barefooted round Tess. Retty put her hands upon Tess’s shoulders, as if to realize her friend’s corporeality after such a miracle, and the other two laid their arms round Continue reading
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