A Pair of Blue Eyes - Thomas Hardy - Books -  - 9798633945836 - April 6, 2020
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A Pair of Blue Eyes

Elfride Swancourt was a girl whose emotions lay very near the surface. Their nature more precisely, and as modified by the creeping hours of time, was known only to those who watched the circumstances of her history. Personally, she was the combination of very interesting particulars, whose rarity, however, lay in the combination itself rather than in the individual elements combined. As a matter of fact, you did not see the form and substance of her features when conversing with her; and this charming power of preventing a material study of her lineaments by an interlocutor, originated not in the cloaking effect of a well-formed manner (for her manner was childish and scarcely formed), but in the attractive crudeness of the remarks themselves. She had lived all her life in retirement-the monstrari gigito of idle men had not flattered her, and at the age of nineteen or twenty she was no further on in social consciousness than an urban young lady of fifteen.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released April 6, 2020
ISBN13 9798633945836
Pages 336
Dimensions 216 × 280 × 18 mm   ·   780 g
Language English  

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