One would almost have supposed Henchard to have had policy to see that no better modus vivendi could be arrived at with Farfrae than by encouraging him to become his son-in-law.

Right, and the fact that I ran winXP every day eight hours a day for three years running without the system locking up once means nothing. That said, Linux FTW!

What children we are in trifles! what slight things exercise an influence over us! to how much that our reason would be ashamed to acknowledge! nevertheless does it submit. Our whole nature must change; we must be less susceptible, less dependent on blind accident, before we can shake off hopes and fears, which are almost superstitions.

From the standpoint of the Sino-Soviet feud, it is well to remember, too, that the Ta-chʻing field in northern Manchuria, China's most productive, is highly vulnerable to Soviet bombs and missiles and, in the event of war, would be one of the first objectives of a Russian offensive.