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apples jam brass an ancient dish a warming pan and an enormous bag of goose feathers towards a bed she was allotted the spare room in s house whither she retired early and where they could hear her through the ceiling below honestly saying the lord s prayer in a loud voice as the directed as however she could not sleep...	45
the satisfaction of being on the brink of a gratified desire they saluted the couple and went forward in front of and sue whose was increasing the latter drew back and turned to her lover her mouth itself like that of a child about to give way to grief t like it here i wish we ha t come the place gives me the horrors i...	45
defeat its own ends because we are the queer sort of people we are folk in whom domestic ties of a forced kind snuff out cordiality and sue still held that ther e was g r or l in it that all were so everybody is ng to we we are a little beforehand that s all in y aye twenty ye the ts of these two will act a nd feel wo...	45
of huts every kind of structure short of a permanent one cover the green field for the space of a square half mile and the crowds of walk through the town in a mass and make straight for the exhibition ground the way is lined with shows and on foot who make a market place of the whole to the show proper and lead some...	45
to make another attempt after putting it off once or twice as far as they themselves are concerned they are the only two in the show i should be ashamed of making myself so silly if i were he i don t see as how there s anything remarkable in their behavior i should never have noticed their being in love if you hadn t s...	45
were too deeply absorbed in their own lives as translated into emotion by the military band to perceive her under her veil she walked round the outside of the listen ing throng passing behind the lovers whose movements at and elsewhere had an unexpected fascination for her to day them narrowly from the rear she notice...	45
unexpectedly who called father and sue mother and a in a marriage ceremony intended for to be performed at a s office together with of the cases in the law courts bore only one translation to plain minds little time for though he was formally turned into the apt stuck to him would come home from school in the evening...	45
see what assistance she could render and also because they liked to be together the silence and of the building gave her confidence and standing on a safe low platform erected by which she was nevertheless timid at mounting she began painting in the letters of the first table while he set about mending a portion of the...	45
t bear that they and everybody should think people wicked because they may have chosen to live their own way it is really these opinions that make the people reckless and actually become never be cast down it was only a funny story ah but we suggested it i am afraid i have done you mischief instead of helping you by co...	45
scrap of paper and stuck it upon the they soon found that instead of the furniture their own personal histories and past conduct began to be discussed to an unexpected and intolerable extent by the in tending it was not till now that they really discovered what a fool s paradise of supposed un recognition they had been...	45
no more in the town of whither they had gone nobody knew chiefly because nobody cared to know any one sufficiently curious to trace the steps of such an obscure pair might have discovered without great trouble that they had taken advantage of his to enter on a shifting almost life which was not without its for a time w...	45
are in a difficulty then you are living with him still yes l married of course any children two and another coming soon i see sue under the hard and direct questioning and her tender little mouth began to quiver lord i mean goodness gracious what is there to cry about some folks would be proud enough it is not that i...	45
spreading the gospel by means of this new they ve begun this afternoon but something has happened to turn my mind another way quite i ve heard of un again and i ve seen her who i ve heard of and i ve seen his wife and ever since do what i will and though i sung the hymns wi all my strength i have not been able to help ...	45
have recently come back here to i mean you are keeping the school there again just as formerly the pressure of a sadness that would out him the obscure lam there he replied just as formerly no merely on it was a last resource a small thing to return to after my move upwards and my long indulged hopes a returning to ...	45
perhaps after his having resolutely avoided all the old places for so long but one thing and another had made him think a great deal of lately and if she didn t mind he would like to go back there why should they care if they were known it was over sensitive of them to mind so much they could go on selling cakes there ...	45
whispered they are only learned doctors said sue while they waited big drops of rain fell on their heads and shoulders and the delay grew tedious sue again wished not to stay they won t be long now said without turning his head but the procession did not come forth and somebody in the crowd to pass the time looked at t...	45
following inclinations which do me and nobody else any harm and actually give pleasure to those i love best there gentlemen since you wanted to know how i was getting on i have told you much good may it do you i cannot explain further here i perceive there is something wrong somewhere in our social what it is can only ...	45
the sue a moment we haven t any to let said she shutting the door looked and the boy distressed now said sue let me try you don t know the way they found a second place hard by but here the observing not only sue but the boy and the small children said i am sorry to say we don t let where there are children and also cl...	45
and going up stairs she found that all was quiet in the children s room and called to the landlady in tones to please bring up the and something for their breakfast this was done and producing a couple of eggs which she had brought with her she put them into the boiling kettle and summoned to watch them for the while s...	45
and to angels and to men listened no they are not talking of us he said they are two of different views arguing about the eastward position then another silence till she was seized with another fit of grief there is something external to us which says you sha n tj first it said you sha n t l earn then it na n t or now ...	45
and they agreed that if any objection to it arose from the tragedy which had occurred there they would try to get its number changed when had seen the two little boxes one containing little and the other the two smallest deposited in the earth he hastened back to sue who was still in her room and he therefore did not...	45
is come home again and i am living with him he has returned from said with languid curiosity at again yes couldn t get on there had a rough time of it mother died of what do you call it in the hot weather and father and two of the young ones have just got back he has got a cottage near the old place and for the prese...	45
me what little affection and reverence i had left in the obscure me for the church as an old acquaintance what i can t understand in you is your extraordinary blindness now to your old logic is it peculiar to you or is it common to woman is a woman a thinking at all or a always wanting its how you argued that marriage ...	45
i do oh sue said he with a sudden sense of his own danger do not do an thing for moral reasons you have been my social salvation stay with me for humanity s sake you know what a weak fellow i am my two arch enemies you my weakness for women and my impulse to strong liquor don t abandon me to them sue to save your own s...	45
she replied it is where i lived as maid and wife and all the past things of my life that are interesting to my feelings are mixed up with this road and they have been stirred up in me too lately for i ve been visiting at yes i ve seen ah how do they bear their terrible affliction in a ve ry strange way ve ry strange s...	45
her views had considerably changed he felt compelled to say that his own too were largely modified by events subsequent to their parting he would not conceal from her that passionate love had little to do with his communication it arose from a wish to make their lives if not a success at least no such disastrous failur...	45
came back to the table ah yes said the license it has just come now joined them from his room above and sue nervously made herself agreeable to him by talking on whatever she thought likely to interest him except herself though that interested him most of all she ate some supper and prepared to leave for her lodging ha...	45
be firm in the future but i was so at that time that i paid no heed and that after the divorce she should have thought of doing so i did not dream the gate of mrs s cottage and somebody began crossing in the direction of the school said good night oh is that mr said mrs i was going over to see ee i ve been up stairs wi...	45
too many she said any humble tavern in the country before that for me on the sunday morning following when he later than on other days she meekly asked him if she might come in to breakfast with him as she had broken her and could not replace it immediately the shops being shut yes if you like he said indifferently whi...	45
liquor but only a little as yet i ve come entirely to look for you dear boy you are not well now you must have something better than that held up her finger to the you shall have a that s better fit for a man of education than beer you shall have or dry or sweet or cherry brandy i ll treat you poor chap i don t care w...	45
that a husband almost no yes it s he s come back to me your old original one well i m damned well i always did like him that i will say but how does he come to be up there said humor struck and nodding to the ceiling don t ask inconvenient questions father what we ve to do is to keep him here till he and i are as we ...	45
s got no license nor anything she s got that bless you didn t you hear her say so to her father well said his pipe at the gas jet take her all together limb by limb she s not such a bad looking piece particular by candle light to be sure that have been in circulation can t be at again expected to look like new ones fr...	45
i wish to be quite above board with you and with her husband a message through you asking her to come is at least free from any of if she any of her old nature at all she ll come you ve no respect for marriage whatever or its rights and duties what does it matter what my opinions are a wretch like me can it matter to ...	45
s a light footstep which might have been accounted no more than an added to the sounded in the and he looked round oh i didn t think it was you i didn t oh a hysterical catch in her breath ended in a succession of them he advanced but she quickly recovered and went back don t go don t go he implored this is my last ti...	45
once at the building which still contained sue and then went on knowing that his eyes would light on that scene no more there are cold spots up and down in autumn and winter weather but the of all when a north or east wind is blowing is the crest of the down by the brown house where the road to crosses the old here the...	45
was not a good though she tried to be and grew impatient of domestic details lord love ee what do ye do that yourself for when i ve come o purpose you knew i should come oh i don t i forgot no i didn t forget i did it to discipline myself i have the stairs since eight o clock i must practise myself in my household duti...	45
that you should come near me i have never reversed that treatment till now when i have come to beg your pardon for it and ask you to let me in perhaps you only think you ought to do this i don t wish you to come against your impulses as i have said but i beg to be admitted she waited a moment and repeated i beg to be ...	45
by an umbrella stay in the flame of a candle she had lighted and using it upon the flowing lock when she had finished this practised a and put on her things she cast her eyes round upon he seemed to be sleeping though his position was an elevated one his malady preventing him lying down and ready sat down and waited as...	45
plan and willingly joined me in the of imagining a population living under queen victoria a modern of the penny post and machines union matches who could read and write and national school children but i believe i am correct in stating that until the existence of this was announced in the present story in never been p...	45
oak s motions though they had a quiet energy were slow and their accorded well with his occupation fitness being the basis of all beauty nobody could have denied that his steady and turns in and about the flock had elements of grace yet although if occasion demanded he could do or think a thing with as a dash as can th...	45
was apparently young and graceful he could form no decided opinion upon her looks her position being almost beneath his eye so that he saw her in a another interior bird s eye view as milton s satan first saw paradise she wore no bonnet or hat but had enveloped herself in a large cloak which was carelessly flung over h...	45
beneath her was sideways springing to her accustomed perpendicular like a bowed and satisfying herself that nobody was in sight she seated herself in the manner demanded by the saddle though hardly expected of the woman and trotted off in the direction of mill oak was amused perhaps a little astonished and hanging up t...	45
gone away with an air between that of tragedy and comedy returned to his work five mornings and evenings passed the young woman came regularly to milk the healthy cow or to attend to the sick one but never allowed her vision to stray in the direction of oak s person his want of tact had deeply offended her not by seei...	45
she il i believe you saved my life miss don t know your name know your aunt s but not yours i would just as soon not tell it rather not there is no reason either why should as you probably will never have much to do with me still i should like to know you can inquire at my aunt s she will tell you my name is oak conv...	45
am content to be liked oh mr oak that s very fine you d get to despise me never said mr oak so earnestly that he seemed to be coming by the force of his words straight through the bush and into her arms i shall do one thing in this life one thing certain that is love you and long for you and keep wanting you till i ...	45
he was clever and still the young dog george s son might possibly have been the image of his mother for there was not much resemblance between him and george he was learning the sheep keeping business so as to follow on at the flock when the other should die but had got no further than the as yet still finding an diff...	45
had lain for some time idle in his frock pocket touched his which he carried there here was an opportunity for putting his dearly bought wisdom into practice he drew out his and began to play to the fair in the style of a man who had never known a moment s sorrow oak could pipe with sweetness and the sound of the well ...	45
said can play so clever that a can make a tune sound as well as the loose song a man can wish for the journey d ye tell o t i a happy time for us and i feel quite a new man and how do she pay that i don t know master on hearing these and other similar remarks a wild thought flashed into mind that they might be speaking...	45
said moving past oak as a christian edges past an plate when he does not mean to contribute if you follow on the road till you come to s where they are all gone to have their snap of i some of em will tell you of a place good to ye shepherd the who showed this nervous dread of loving his neighbour as himself went up th...	45
into a path from the doorway to the and into tions everywhere a curved settle of oak far from the crowd i a remote corner was a frequent stretched one side and small bed and the o of which was the this aged man was now sitting opposite the fire his frosty white hair and beard his figure like the grey moss and upon a ap...	45
at all said the friendly oak don t let your teeth quite meet and you won t feel the at all ah tis wonderful what can be done by contrivance i my own mind exactly neighbour ah he s his s own his were just such a nice man said the drink henry drink said a person who held saint notions of share and share alike where liq...	45
thing it ended where it did the question of which was right being by the company went on and he s the man t ye joseph ay another time ye were lost by i down gate weren t ye joseph i was replied as if there were some conditions too serious even for modesty to remember itself under this being one yes that were the middl...	45
man said joseph oh no no that man failed for heaps of money hundreds in gold and silver the being rather short of breath mr after a coal which had fallen among the ashes took up the narrative with a private of his eye well now you d hardly believe it but that man our miss s father was one of the husbands alive after...	45
father said jacob your were in the summer and your in the winter of the same years and ye don t ought lo count both father it all i lived through the didn t the chat i that s my question i suppose ye u say next i be no age at all to speak of sure we shan t said soothingly ye be a very old aged person also soothingly we...	45
happened to be in joseph s face oh what s the matter what s the matter said joseph starting back what s a asked jacob and mark i said so yes i said so i what found out anything stealing it is the news is that after miss got home she went out again to see all was safe as she usually do and coming in found creeping d...	45
progress robinson ash s dictionary and s constituted his library and though a limited series it was one from which he had acquired more sound information by perusal than many a man of opportunities has done from a of laden far from the crowd the a visitor half confidences ix j y daylight the bower of oak s new found mi...	45
in this state whatever shall i do not at homes were hardly in so suggested say you re a fright with dust and can t come down yes that sounds very well said mrs say i can t see him that will do mrs went downstairs and returned the answer as requested adding however on her own responsibility miss is bottles sir and is...	45
that the is dismissed for and that i have formed a resolution to have no at all but to manage everything with my own head and hands the men breathed an audible breath of amazement the next matter is have you heard anything of nothing ma am have you done anything i met farmer said jacob and far from the crowd i went wit...	45
down as much as we can and call him ah pore widow woman she cried her heart out about it almost she was brought up by a very heathen father and mother who never sent her to church or school and it shows how the sins of the parents are visited upon the children mr here drew up his features to the mild degree of melancho...	45
will it be what that you promised i don t quite recollect oh you do don t speak like that it me to the earth it makes me say what ought to be said first by you never mind say it h must i it is when shall we be married frank oh i see well you have to get proper clothes i have money will it be by or license i should t...	45
but we ought to be proud of her here she up the old place tis such a maid however that she ll soon get picked up it would be to suggest that the novelty of her engagement in such an occupation had almost as much to do with the as had the beauty of her face and movements however the interest was general and this saturd...	45
with her the pile was dreary in winter time before the candles were lighted and the shutters closed the atmosphere of the place seemed as old as the walls every nook behind the furniture had a temperature of its own for the fire was not kindled in this part of the house early in the day and s new piano which was an old...	45
miss very well open shut no it s more likely to fall open open shut the book went fluttering in the air and came down shut a small upon her mouth took the pen and with off hand serenity directed the to now light a candle which seal shall we use here s a s head there s nothing in that what s this two no it ought to...	45
said mark but i say let her have rope enough bless her pretty face shouldn t i like to do so upon her cherry the gallant mark here made a peculiar and sound with his own mark said sternly now you mind this none of that talk that style of yours about miss i don t allow it do you hear with all my heart as i ve no chanc...	45
a shade darkened the door and entered the upon each a nod of a quality between friendliness and condescension ah oak i thought you were here he said i met the mail cart ten minutes ago and a letter was put into my hand which i opened without reading the address i believe it is yours you must excuse the accident please ...	45
countenance than was s then soon parting from the lonely and reserved man returned to his house to breakfast feeling of shame and regret at having so far exposed his mood by those questions to a stranger he again placed the letter on the and sat down to think of the circumstances attending it by the light of s informa...	45
awakened from his deep sleep and behold there was eve the farmer took courage and for the first time really looked at her material causes and effects are not to be arranged in regular the result from capital employed in the production of any movement of a mental nature is sometimes as tremendous as the cause itself is ...	45
of and hay the restless and shadowy figure of a wandered about a loose box at the end whilst the steady grind of all the was occasionally by the rattle of a rope or the stamp of a foot pacing up and down at the heels of the animals was farmer himself this place was his and in one here after looking to the feeding of hi...	45
she fancied his brow severe and his eye immediately contrived to withdraw and glided along by the river till she was a stone s throw off she heard footsteps brushing the grass and had a consciousness that love was her like a perfume instead of turning or waiting went further among the high but seemed determined and pre...	45
to think of weather in the harvest i rather cling to the chaise because it is the same my poor father and mother drove but if you don t like it i will sell it and you shall have a pony carriage of your own i cannot say how far above every other idea and object on earth you seem to me nobody knows god only knows how ...	45
the unpleasant symptoms after two or three dozen turns will you turn and let me hold the she said my head is in a whirl and i can t talk turned then began with some awkwardness allowing her thoughts to stray occasionally from her story to attend to the which required a little in i wanted to ask you if the men made any ...	45
was he had not finished either he continued in a more agitated voice my opinion is since you ask it that you are greatly to blame for upon a man like mr merely as a leading on a man you don t care for is not a action and even miss if you seriously inclined towards him you might have let him discover it in some way of ...	45
am said two of his store got into some t other day and were just troubles in the fold like these he sent a man on horseback here post haste for and went and saved em farmer got the thing they do it with tis a pipe with a sharp inside isn t it joseph ay a pipe echoed joseph that s what tis ay sure that s the machine ...	45
woman s eyes and tongue tell distinctly opposite tales looked full of gratitude and she said oh how could you serve me so such a tenderly shaped reproach for his previous delay was the one speech in the language that he could pardon for not being of his readiness now murmured a confused reply and hastened on she knew ...	45
and had a common the windows the time eaten and the of the the misty chestnut work of the referred to no exploded art or worn out religious creed the defence and salvation of the body by daily bread is still a study a religion and a desire to day the large side doors were thrown open towards the sun to admit a light to...	45
been washed out rendering it just now as superior to anything as cream is superior to milk and water but heartless circumstance could not leave entire far from the crowd s happiness of this morning the old and two had duly undergone their and the men were proceeding with the and when oak s belief that she was going to...	45
t put it so plain that she could understand my meaning so i could lay it on all the stronger that was my depth however let her marry an she will perhaps tis high time i believe farmer kissed her behind the spear bed at the sheep washing t other day that i do what a lie said ah neighbour oak how st know said mildly be...	45
he had come though the presence of the who had been dismissed for disturbed her for a while supper being ended began on his own private account without reference to listeners lost my love and i care not i ve lost my love and i care not i shall soon have another that s better than t other i ve lost my love and i care ...	45
rather formed a rich shadow which threw her tones into relief the against each other as at in the early ages of the world and so silent and absorbed were they that her breathing could almost be heard between the bars and at the end of the ballad when the last tone on lo an close there arose that of pleasure which is th...	45
said the young without ceremony she coloured with embarrassment twas unwillingly shown she replied stiffly and with as much dignity which was very as she could into a position of utter i like you the for thai miss he said i should have liked i wish you had never shown yourself to me by here i she pulled again and th...	45
never once told her she was beautiful far from the crowd the new acquaintance described xxv and had combined to stamp as an exceptional being he was a man to whom memories were an and a simply feeling considering and caring for what was before his he was only in the present his outlook upon time was as a transient flas...	45
that he was doing the mistress of the farm real knight service by this voluntary contribution of his labour at a busy time as soon as she had entered the field saw her o far from the crowd and sticking his into the ground and picking up his walking cane he came forward blushed with half angry embarrassment and adjusted...	45
be ordered out soon and yet you take away the one little lamb of pleasure that i have in this dull life of mine well perhaps generosity is not a woman s most marked characteristic when are you going from here she asked with some interest in a month but how can it give you pleasure to speak to me can you ask miss knowi...	45
that you spoke of what the sword exercise ah would you like to said hesitated she had heard wondrous reports from time to time by in who had by chance awhile in near the of this strange and glorious performance the sword exercise men and boys who had peeped through or over walls into the returned with accounts of its b...	45
subject had not her conscious weakness of position ber to and argue in to better it since this subject has been mentioned she said very emphatically i am glad of the opportunity of clearing up a mistake which is very common and very provoking i didn t definitely promise mr anything i h ave never cared for him i respect...	45
i wish you to go elsewhere she said a of face invisible to the eye being suggested by the trembling words do not remain on this farm any longer i don t want you i beg you to go that s nonsense said oak calmly this is the second time you have pretended to dismiss me and what s the use o it pretended you shall go sir y...	45
been deaf to you i tell you all this but what do you care you don t care she returned silent and weak to his charges and swayed her head desperately as if to thrust away the words as they came about her ears from the lips of the trembling man in the climax of life with his roman face and fine frame dearest dearest i am...	45
farmer is not at home said ah the better said i know what he s gone for less than five minutes brought up oak again running at the same pace with two dangling from his hard where did you find cm said turning round and leaping upon the hedge without wailing for an answer under the i knew where they were said f following...	45
the door of the house opened and the keeper came out half dressed with a candle in his hand the rays the whole group keep the gate close shouted he has stolen the horse who said the man far from the crowd looked at the driver of the and saw a woman his mistress n hearing his voice she had turned her face away from the...	45
should you ball tis a great and might perhaps save you from being choked to death some day mr poured the liquor with liberality at the suffering s circular mouth half of it running down the side of the and half of what reached his mouth running down outside his throat and half of what ran in going the wrong way and bei...	45
and the parson would pray i he would kneel down and put up his hands together and make the holy gold rings on his fingers gleam and twinkle in yer eyes that he d earned by praying so excellent well i ah yes i wish i lived there our poor parson can t no money to a buy such rings said moon thoughtfully and as good a man...	45
the single one of their number he had ever closely beheld by degrees a more charitable temper had pervaded him and this was the reason of his sally to night he had come to and beg forgiveness of with something like a sense of shame at his violence having but just now learnt that she had returned only from a visit to a...	45
dignified of former times and such a scheme as he had now engaged in he td have condemned as only a few months ago we discern a grand force in the lover which he whilst a free man but a there is a breadth of vision in the free man which in the lover we vainly seek where there is much bias there must be some and love th...	45
it is a barbarous way of settling a quarrel i shall shortly leave the army because of the same conviction now after that revelation of how the land lies with be a mistake to kill me would it not t would be a mistake to kill you repeated mechanically with a bowed head better kill yourself far better i you s make her you...	45
effect of minute of high power just before the clock struck five oak and passed the village cross and went on together to the fields they were yet barely in view of their mistress s house when oak fancied he saw the opening of a in one of the upper windows the two men were at this moment partially by an elder bush now ...	45
wonder what meant by his question and oak nodded respectfully to the farmer just checked their paces to discover if they were wanted and finding they were not stood back to let him pass on far from the crowd the only signs of the terrible sorrow had been through the night and was now were the want of in his well defin...	45
about such far from the crowd in oak had a melancholy tendency to look like a candle beside gas and ill at ease he went out again thinking he would go home for under the circumstances he had no heart for the scene in the barn at the door he paused for a moment was speaking friends il is not only the harvest home that w...	45
crossing the sky and a the air it was the first move of the approaching storm the second peal was noisy with comparatively little visible lightning saw a candle shining in s bedroom and soon a shadow swept to and fro upon the blind then there came a third flash of a most extraordinary kind were going on in the vast hol...	45
these were of green behind these was a broad mass of lesser light simultaneously came from every part of the tumbling sky what may be called a shout since though no shout ever came near it it was more of the nature of a shout than of anything else earthly in the meantime one of the forms had alighted upon the point of ...	45
possibly not overlooked them repeated slowly to it is difficult to describe the intensely dramatic effect that announcement had upon oak at such a moment all the night he had been feeling that the neglect he was to repair was and isolated the only instance of th kind within the circuit of the county yet at this very t...	45

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