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Henchard was, by original make, the last man to act stealthily, for good or for evil. But the solicitus timor of his love — the dependence upon Elizabeth's love into which he had declined (or, in another sense, to which he had advanced) — denaturalized him.

Despite encouraging noises made by politicians from time to time, the two sides there have never been further from an agreement.

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