Far from the Madding Crowd: '

Depicts as passage in Chapter 19, William Boldwood talking to Bathsheba Everdene: "'I feel -- almost -- too much -- to think,' he said, with a solemn simplicity, 'I have come to speak to you without preface. My life is not my own since I have beheld you clearly, Miss Everdene -- I come to make you an offer of marriage.'"