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Quotation from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
“Theirs was that substantial affection which arises (if any arises at all) when the two who are thrown together begin first by knowing the rougher sides of each other’s character, and not the best till further on, the romance growing up in the interstices of a mass of hard prosaic reality.”
Far from the Madding Crowd, Vol. II, Ch. XXVI (Ch. 56) (Project Gutenberg text (1874 first edition))
The narrator describes the love between Gabriel and Bathsheba as they reach an understanding.
Citation: "Theirs was that substantial affection which arises (if any arises at all) when the two who are thrown together begin first by knowing the rougher sides of each other’s character, and not the best till further on, the romance growing up in the interstices of a mass of hard prosaic reality." — Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, Vol. II, Ch. XXVI (Ch. 56) (Project Gutenberg text (1874 first edition)). (id far-from-the-madding-crowd-q6)
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