Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul

Thomas Hardy
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Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently? ✨ Thomas Hardy (2007). Tess of the D'urbervilles, p.455, Reprint Services Corporation
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