Status Updates From Far From the Madding Crowd ...

That was quick! Gabriel watched Bathseba milk a cow for several weeks, she saved him when he almost suffocated in his hut - and he already proposes to her! It's your second conversation with a girl, and you propose! How come that be?

forgot how hard hardy’s books are to read

"Having for some time known the want of a satisfactory form to fill an increasing void within him, his position moreover affording the widest scope for his fancy, he painted her a beauty."

Oh those long sentences! Don't tell me reading history is hard. This is harder!