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Omg

This book wildly swings between strikingly beautiful, funny and tiresomely verbose

All the feeling she had been betrayed into showing she drew back into herself again by a strenuous effort of self command

That she had felt herself sufficient to herself, and had in the independence of her girlish heart fancied there was a certain degradation in renouncing the simplicity of a maiden existence to become the humbler half of an indifferent matrimonial whole was bitterly remembered to her now

There was a time when you turned to me, before I thought of you! I don't reproach you, for even now I feel that the ignorant and cold darkness that I should have lived in if you had not attracted me would have been worse than my knowledge of you, though it has brought this misery. could I but have forseen the torture that trifling trick was going to lead me into, how I should have cursed you.

#teamOak I hope that Bathsheba stops messing around every eligible bachelor in town, and either really does become the independent woman she claims to be and is capable of being, or she really does give Oak a chance.