“ Having begun to love you, I love you for ever—in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself. ”
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891). copy citation
| Author | Thomas Hardy |
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| Source | Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| Topic | love change disgrace |
| Date | 1891 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/110/110-h/110-h.htm |
Context
“That's what I have felt, Angel!»
«I know that.»
«I thought, Angel, that you loved me—me, my very self! If it is I you do love, O how can it be that you look and speak so? It frightens me! Having begun to love you, I love you for ever—in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself. I ask no more. Then how can you, O my own husband, stop loving me?»
«I repeat, the woman I have been loving is not you.»
«But who?»
«Another woman in your shape.»
She perceived in his words the realization of her own apprehensive foreboding in former times.” source
«I know that.»
«I thought, Angel, that you loved me—me, my very self! If it is I you do love, O how can it be that you look and speak so? It frightens me! Having begun to love you, I love you for ever—in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself. I ask no more. Then how can you, O my own husband, stop loving me?»
«I repeat, the woman I have been loving is not you.»
«But who?»
«Another woman in your shape.»
She perceived in his words the realization of her own apprehensive foreboding in former times.” source
Meaning and analysis
