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Updated: June 25, 2025

This debauch boded ill for that wilful and fascinating mistress whom the faithful man even now felt within him as the embodi- ment of all that was sweet and bright and hopeless. He put out the expiring lights, that the barn might not be endangered, closed the door upon the men in their deep and oblivious sleep, and went again into the lone night.

Thomas Hardy - Far from the Madding Crowd