To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could … - Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a stage, take a standing-point outside herself, observe herself as a disinterested spectator, and think what a sport for Heaven this woman Eustacia was.

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