sue-bridehead

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2c126dc	At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals almost more than unbridled passion--the craving to attract and captivate, regardless of the injury it may do the man--was in me; and when I found I had caught you, I was frightened. And then--I don't know how it was-- I couldn't bear to let you go--possibly to Arabella again--and so I got to love you, Jude. But you see, however fondly it ended, it began in the selfish and cruel wish to make your heart ache for me without letting mine ache for you.	cruel deception flirting heartbreaker heartbroken love lying selfish sue-bridehead	Thomas Hardy
b32e0ee	"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."	fairy sue-bridehead trickster unrequited-love	Thomas Hardy
397adc4	--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man...	ethereal matrimony men nerves prude sensitive sex sue-bridehead temperament	Thomas Hardy
0dfee4b	you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.	sensual sue-bridehead woman	Thomas Hardy
b8f4268	You simply mean that you flirted outrageously with him, poor old chap, and then repented, and to make reparation, married him, though you tortured yourself to death by doing it.	flirt sue-bridehead	Thomas Hardy
474e40e	you dear, sweet, tantalizing phantom--hardly flesh at all; so that when I put my arms round you I almost expect them to pass through you as through air!	phantom sue-bridehead tantalizing	Thomas Hardy
0d813be	You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.	girl sue-bridehead talk way-of-speaking	Thomas Hardy
92cc92a	I have sometimes thought--that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know!	slave social-code sue-bridehead woman	Thomas Hardy

2c126dc

At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals almost more than unbridled passion--the craving to attract and captivate, regardless of the injury it may do the man--was in me; and when I found I had caught you, I was frightened. And then--I don't know how it was-- I couldn't bear to let you go--possibly to Arabella again--and so I got to love you, Jude. But you see, however fondly it ended, it began in the selfish and cruel wish to make your heart ache for me without letting mine ache for you.

cruel deception flirting heartbreaker heartbroken love lying selfish sue-bridehead

Thomas Hardy

b32e0ee

"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."

fairy sue-bridehead trickster unrequited-love

Thomas Hardy

397adc4

--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man...

ethereal matrimony men nerves prude sensitive sex sue-bridehead temperament

Thomas Hardy

0dfee4b

you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.

sensual sue-bridehead woman

Thomas Hardy

b8f4268

You simply mean that you flirted outrageously with him, poor old chap, and then repented, and to make reparation, married him, though you tortured yourself to death by doing it.

flirt sue-bridehead

Thomas Hardy

474e40e

you dear, sweet, tantalizing phantom--hardly flesh at all; so that when I put my arms round you I almost expect them to pass through you as through air!

phantom sue-bridehead tantalizing

Thomas Hardy

0d813be

You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.

girl sue-bridehead talk way-of-speaking

Thomas Hardy

92cc92a

I have sometimes thought--that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know!

slave social-code sue-bridehead woman

Thomas Hardy