Status Updates From Far from the Madding Crowd

Struggling with this one a bit but will push through a bit longer seeing as it’s a classic

“the frost had hardened and glazed the surface of the snow till it shone in the red eastern light with the polish of marble, and how the footprints of a few birds, which had hopped over the snow whilst it lay in the state of a soft fleece, were now frozen to a short permanency.”

Beautiful! Also noticing many red things so far

“So very idly and unreflectingly was this deed done. Of love, as a spectacle Bathsheba had a fair knowledge; but of love subjectively she knew nothing.”

So stressed about this lol

“Among these heavy yeomen a feminine figure glided - the single one of her sex that the room contained. She moved between them as a chaise between carts, was heard after them as a romance after sermons, and was felt among them like a breeze among furnaces.”