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He is as good as anybody in this parish! He is very particular, too, about going to church-yes, he is!''I am afeard nobody ever saw him there. I never did, certainly.''The reason of that is,' she said eagerly, 'that he goes in privately by the old tower door, just when the service commences, and sits at the back of the gallery. He told me so.'This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock. It was not only received with utter incredulity as regarded itself, but threw doubt on all the assurances that had preceded it.

Thomas Hardy
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He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.

Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
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Don't take on about her, Gabriel. What difference does it make whose sweetheart she is, since she can't be yours?''That's the very thing I say to myself,' said Gabriel.

Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
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But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are.

Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
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This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock.

Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
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He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society.

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You know, mistress, that I love you, and shall love you always

Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
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Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.

Thomas Gray
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Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.

Thomas Gray
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Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women do when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
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