It is in far worthier hands than ever it has been in before." "But indeed I can't have it!" she said, in a perfect simmer of distress.

"Oh, how can you do such a thing; that is if you really mean it! Give me your dead father's watch, and such a valuable one! You should not be so reckless, indeed, Sergeant Troy!" "I loved my father: good; but better, I love you more.

That's how I can do it," said the sergeant, with an intonation of such exquisite fidelity to nature that it was evidently not all acted now.

Her beauty, which, whilst it had been quiescent, he had praised in jest, had in its animated phases moved him to earnest; and though his seriousness was less than she imagined, it was probably more than he imagined himself.
Bathsheba was brimming with agitated bewilderment, and she said, in half-suspicious accents of feeling, "Can it be! Oh, how can it be, that you care for me, and so suddenly! You have seen so little of me: I may not be really so--so nice-looking as I seem to you.
Please, do take it; Oh, do! I cannot and will not have it.

Believe me, your generosity is too great.