Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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"How soft it is -- being winter time, too -- not chapped
or rough or anything!" he said. "There -- that's long enough." said she, though with- out pulling it away "But I suppose you are thinking you would like to kiss it? You may if you want to." "I wasn't thinking of any such thing." said Gabriel, simply; "but I will" "That you won't!" She snatched back her hand. Gabriel felt himself guilty of another want of tact. "Now find out my name." she said, teasingly; and withdrew. CHAPTER IV GABRIEL'S RESOLVE -- THE VISIT -- THE MISTAKE THE only superiority in women that is tolerable to the rival sex is, as a rule, that of the unconscious kind; but a superiority which recognizes itself may sometimes please by suggesting possibilities of capture to the subordinated man. This well-favoured and comely girl soon made appre- ciable inroads upon the emotional constitution of young Farmer Oak. |
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