Emily, there are enemies everywhere. We have to be on our guard, especially for the next couple of weeks._ Theo sighed unhappily. __his is going to be the longest fortnight of my life._ __hat__ saying something,_ I joked, __iven how long you__e lived._ __xactly,_ he said, without smiling.
He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.
Far from the Madding Crowd
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He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.
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