Far from the madding crowd
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"Ah! don´t taunt me, madam. This woman is more to me, dead as she is, than ever you were,or are,or can be. If Satan had not tempted me with that face of yours, and those cursed coquetries, I should have married her.I never had another thought till you came in my way. Would to God that I had;but it is all too late! I deserve^to live in torment for this!"
At these words arose from Bathsheba´s lips a long, low cry of measureless despair and indignation, such a wail of anguish as had never been heard within those old-inhabited walls. It was the Tete^eotou of her union with Troy.
"If she´s - that, - what - am I?" she added, as a continuation of the same cry, and sobbing pitifully: and the rarity with her of such abandonment only made the condition more dire.
"You are nothing to me - nothing," said Troy heartlessly. "A ceremony before a priest doesn´t make a marriage. I am not morally yours."
2007-01-16
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