Bless thy simplicity, Tess

“What at night had been perfect and ideal was by day the more or less defective …”

“I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in ever…”

“you dear, sweet, tantalizing phantom--hardly flesh at all; so that when I put m…”

“The stage of mental comfort to which they had arrived at this hour was one wher…”