Thomas Hardy Quote

He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to think that she don't care for him quite so much as he does for her. She's not a particular warm-hearted creature to my thinking, though she cares for him pretty middling much— as much as she's able to; and he could make her heart ache a bit if he liked to try—which he's too simple to do.

Jude the Obscure, with an Etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a Map of Wessex (ed. 1896)