Bless Thy Simplicity, Tess

You Don't Talk Quite Like A Girl Who Has Had No Advantages.

Tis Because We Be On A Blighted Star, And Not A Sound One, Isn't It Tess?

They Spoke Very Little Of Their Mutual Feeling; Pretty Phrases And Warm Expressions Being Probably Unnecessary Between Such Tried Friends.

To Be Loved To Madness--such Was Her Great Desire. Love Was To Her The One Cordial Which Could Drive Away The Eating Loneliness Of Her Days. And She Seemed To Long For The Abstraction Called Passionate Love More Than For Any Particular Lover.

The Main Object Of Religion Is Not To Get A Man Into Heaven, But To Get Heaven Into Him.