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Hardy is very good at writing love confessions, he puts so much genuine effort into them and they don't feel corny

"Queen of the corn market" is by far the most flirtatious pet name you can give in rural Victorian times. Cracking up. Better than her actual name Bathsheba

"Have ye heard the news that's all over parish?"
"No - not a morsel of it!" they all replied, looking into the very midst of Laban Tall and as it were advancing their intelligence to meet his words half way down his throat.

*swooning

what in the 1800s reverse harem