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Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love 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.

Quite the impressive rake
Let me show off my swordsmanship
“That loose lock of hair wants tidying… the sword had descended. The lock dropped to the ground.”
Then picking up the hair to keep…

Scandalous

“she cast a farewell glance upon the spot she had just left, having resolved not to remain near the place after all.
She saw a dim spot of orange red moving round the shoulder of the rise. It disappeared on the other side.”

"Why you only saw me the other night, you stupid man."
"That makes no difference. The lightning works instantaneously. I loved you then, at once — as I do now."

Lol

Uh oh

“the landscape, even to the leanest pasture, being all health and colour.
Every green was young, every pore was open, and every stalk was swollen with crowding currents of juice. God was palpably present in the country, and the devil had gone with the world to town.”

I actually agreed with Oak’s “rebuke”
She’s being SO dumb

“Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more emphatic than speech.”

“The great aids to idealization in love were present here: occasional observation of her from a distance, and the absence of social intercourse with her - visual familiarity, oral strangeness.”

Love it haha

“To whom her face was as the uncertain glory of an April day”

Obsessed with this line