Thomas Hardy, The Mayor Of Casterbridge Quotes
Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.
She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.
It was part of his nature to extenuate nothing and live on as one of his own worst accusers.
She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play
If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later.
She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.
Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year round were glowing little fires.
She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.
