- the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by tempera…

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- the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2016). JUDE THE OBSCURE (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel, p.190, e-artnow
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- the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2016). JUDE THE OBSCURE (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel, p.190, e-artnow

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