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poor maid as well she mid be and so you see sir as all this happened just when we was packing your few traps and your mis ess s night rail and dressing things into the cart why it me yes well will you get the trunks upstairs and drink a cup of ale and hasten back as soon as you can in case you should be wanted had gone...	45
do you forgive me she pressed his hand tightly for an answer then we will dismiss it at once and for ever too td as it is for the occasion and talk of something lighter o angel i am almost glad because now you can forgive i have not made my confession i have a confession too remember i said so ah to be e now then ...	45
her so her that she staggered and he stepped forward thinking she was going to fall sit down sit down he said gently you are ill and it is natural that you should be she did sit down without knowing where she was that strained look still upon her face and her es such as to make his flesh creep op the d i don t belong t...	45
help addressing what have i done what have i done i have not told of that with or my love for you you don t think i planned it do you it is in your own mind what you are angry at angel it is not in me o it is not in me and i am not woman you think me h m well not my wife but not the same no not the same but do not ma...	45
her opportunity among so many happier moods which forbid repose this was a mood which welcomed it and in a few minutes the lonely forgot existence op the d surrounded by the stillness of the chamber that had once possibly been the bride chamber of her own later on that night also his steps to the house entering softly ...	45
pale cheek still showed its though tears had left glistening traces and the usually ripe red mouth was almost as pale as her cheek alive as she was still under the stress of her mental grief the life beat so that a little further pull upon it cause read illness dull her characteristic eyes and make her mouth thin she l...	45
upon but afterwards an at half past twelve she left her assistant alone in the kitchen and returning to the sitting room waited for the of angel s form behind the bridge about one he showed himself her face flushed although he was a quarter of a mile she ran to the kitchen to get the dinner served by the time he should...	45
might get angry with me for any ordinary matter and knowing what you do of my you yourself might be tempted to say words and they might be overheard perhaps by my own children o what only hurts me now would torture and kill me then i will go to morrow and i shall not stay here though i didn t like to it i have seen th...	45
had she delivered her whole being up to him that it pleased her to think he was regarding her as his absolute possession to dispose of as he should choose it was the hovering terror of tomorrow s separation to feel that he really recognized her now as his wife and did not cast her off even if in that recognition he wen...	45
in which the brain like a shaking himself is trying its he had some dim notion of an unusual proceeding but the realities of his situation soon conjecture on the other subject he waited in to discern some mental pointing he knew that if any intention of his concluded over night did not vanish in the light of morning it...	45
away on business and leaving her over the garden hedge and thus made her way to the house as she went up the garden path she heard her mother singing by the back door coming in sight of which she perceived mrs on the in the act of wringing a sheet having performed this without observing she went indoors and her daughte...	45
county bones and as any recorded in history and now to be sure what they at s and the pure drop will say to me how they ll and and say this is yer mighty match is it this is yer getting back to the true level of yer forefathers in king s time i feel this is too much i shall put an end to myself title and all i can bea...	45
hours of that morning when he had carried his wife in his arms across the river to the of the but his face was thinner now had given his parents no warning of his visit and his arrival stirred the atmosphere of the as the of the a quiet pool his father and mother were both in the drawing room but neither of his brother...	45
thou them all when prayers were over his mother said i could not help thinking how very that chapter your dear father read applied in some of its particulars to the woman you have chosen the perfect woman you see was a working woman not an not a fine lady but one who her hands and her head and her heart for the good o...	45
re entered the with the local banker he deposited the jewels till happier days should arise he also paid into the bank thirty pounds to be sent to in a few months as she might require and wrote to her at her parents home in to inform her of what he had done this with the sum he had already placed in her hands about f...	45
comer out of which there was no legitimate pathway why not be on society by his future loosely instead of kissing the rod of in this manner i am going to alone said he i have separated from my wife for personal not reasons i may never live with her again i may not be able to love you but wiu you go with me instead of ...	45
winter time let us press on to an october day more than eight months subsequent to the parting of and we discover the latter in changed conditions instead of a bride with boxes and trunks which others bore we see her a lonely woman with a basket and a bundle in her own as at an earlier time when she was no bride instea...	45
could resist equally well all the by which they were surprised on plains to return thus it happened that when the last of s sovereigns had been spent she was with others to take their place while on of the season she f it difficult to get employment not being aware of the i of intelligence energy health and in any sphe...	45
inadequate thought for modem days solomon had thought as far as that more than two thousand years ago she herself though not in the van of had got further if all were only vanity who would mind it all was alas worse than vanity injustice death the wife of angel put her hand to her brow and felt its curve and the edges...	45
lead my present life paused but you be a gentleman s wife and it seems hardly fair that you live like this o yes it is quite fair though i am very well well he married you and you can be unhappy wives are unhappy sometimes from no fault of their husbands from their own you ve no faults that i m sure of and he s none ...	45
the rain had no occasion to fall but along upon the yelling wind sticking into them like glass till they were wet through had not known till now what was really meant by that there are d of and a very little is called being wet through in common talk but to stand working slowly in a field and feel the creep of rain wat...	45
the body less than its core they knew that it meant snow and in the night the snow came who continued to live at the cottage with the warm that cheered any lonely who paused beside it awoke in the night and heard above the noises which seemed to signify that the roof had turned itself into a of all the of the d winds w...	45
as i heard of your being hired weu you thought you had got the better of me the first time at the inn with your fancy man and the second time on the road when you bolted but now i think i ve got the better of you he concluded with a hard laugh between the and the farmer like a bird caught in a clap net returned no answ...	45
of the number of accepted the offer gratefully and disappeared through the great door into the snowy track to her lodging as was the case every afternoon at this time on of the bottle began to fed in a romantic vein i should not have thought it of him never she said in a dreamy tone and i loved him so of the d i didn ...	45
the without and the yellow within spoke with a of herself to the situation she could not be no woman with a heart bigger than a nut could be op the d to in her presence the influence which she exercised over those of her own sex being of a warmth and strength unusual curiously overpowering the less worthy feminine fe...	45
she could do but determined not to escape present tion at the expense of future distress die walked back again quite past the house looking up at all the windows the woman pays ah the explanation was that they were all at church every one she remembered her husband saying that his father always insisted upon the house...	45
how could they if they had known perhaps they would not have cared for they don t care much for him poor thing then she grieved for the beloved man whose conventional standard of judgment had caused her all these latter sorrows and she went her way without knowing that the greatest misfortune of her life was this femi...	45
shock but such was memory that though he stood there openly and a converted man who was for his past a fear overcame her her movement so that she neither retreated nor advanced to think of what from that countenance when she saw it last and to behold it now there was the same handsome of mien but now he wore neatly tri...	45
t mistake me i beg this because you may have been led to do so in noticing if you did notice it how sudden appearance me down there it was but a momentary faltering and considering what you had been to me it was natural enough but will helped me through it though perhaps you think me a for saying it and immediately...	45
not look too often on you it might be dangerous said well women s faces have had too much power over me already for me not to fear them an has nothing to do with such as they and it reminds me of the old times that i would forget after this their conversation to a casual remark now and then as they onward inwardly wond...	45
man her it was dusk when she drew near to ash and in the lane at the entrance to the hamlet she approached a girl and her lover without their observing her they were talking no secrets and the dear voice of the young woman in response to the warmer accents of the man spread into the chilly air as the one soothing thing...	45
however what i want to ask you is will you put it in my power to do my duty to make the only i can make for the trick played you that is will you be my wife and go with me i have already obtained this precious document it was my old mother s dying wish he drew a piece of from his pocket with a slight of embarrassment ...	45
across to learn what was their business in his field don t speak like that to her said d his face with something that was not christianity indeed and what mid pa sons have to do with she who is the fellow asked d turning she went dose up to him go i do beg you she said what and leave you to that tyrant i can see in hi...	45
month ago i should have been at such a possibility i ll go away to swear and ah can i to keep away then suddenly one one only for old friendship i am without defence a good man s honour is in my keeping think be ashamed well yes yes he clenched his lips with himself for his weakness his eyes were equally barren...	45
waist you should be willing to share it and leave that mule you call husband for ever one of her leather gloves which she had taken off to eat her c e lay in her lap and without the slightest warning she passionately swung the glove by the directly in his face it was heavy and as a warrior s and it struck him flat on t...	45
for the last hour or two had felt uneasy about whom she could not get near enough to speak to the other women having kept up their strength by drinking ale and having done without it through dread owing to its results at her home in childhood but still kept going if she could not fill her part she would have to leave a...	45
blame you for going away and i know it was necessary you should find a farm do not think i shall say a word of sting or bitterness only come back to me i am desolate without you my darling o so desolate i do not mind having to work but if you will send me one little line and say am coming i will bide on angel so cheer...	45
night stifling sighs for angel with prayers but the did not even now hold that he would have been justified in giving his son an the same advantages that he had given to the two others when it was possible if not probable that those very advantages might have been used to the doctrines whidi he had made it his life s m...	45
he had persistently elevated at the expense of christianity yet in that civilization an was not certain surely then he might have regarded that of the state which he had inherited with the creed of as at least open to when the result was due to treachery a remorse struck into him the words of never quite in his memory ...	45
had left at home as a child had up by a sudden shoot to a form of this of which as yet lu seemed herself scarce able to understand the meaning her thin legs visible below her once long frock now short by her growing and her hands and arms revealed her youth and yes i have been about all day said lu with gravity a tryin...	45
that somebody would go round and teu em what there is living among em and they thinking nothing of him if pa son who me had lived he d ha done it i m sure postponed her arguments on this high project till she had with pressing matters in hand which seemed little improved by her when necessities had been she turned her ...	45
so they changed and changed however all the so in village life did not entirely in the agricultural a was also going on the village had formerly contained side by side with the agricultural an interesting and better informed class distinctly above the former the class to which s father and mother had belonged and inc...	45
exclaimed in tones of resentment that s why you are going is it turned out of the d we are not turned out exactly but as they said we should have to go soon it was best to go now everybody was moving because there are better chances where are you going to we have taken rooms there mother is so about father s people tha...	45
changed the subject sing to me she said the convert what shall we sing anything you know i don t mind there was a momentary pause it was broken first by one little note then a second voice strengthened it and a third and a fourth in in with words they had learnt at the here we suffer grief and pain here we meet to par...	45
the building known as the d aisle beneath which the huge lay over the of the was a beautifully window of many lights its date being the century it was called the d window and in the upper part could be discerned like those on s old seal and spoon drew the curtains round the bed so as to an excellent tent of it and put ...	45
their separation and her dignified sense of their total was shown not much less by this than by the hardships she had chosen to of which he now learnt for the first time rather than apply to his father for more funds from this place they told him had gone without due notice to the home of her parents on the other side ...	45
marry he has married her whispered go inside saw her efforts for and asked do you think would wish me to try and find her if not of course i don t think she would are you e i am e she wouldn t he was turning away and then he thought of s tender letter i am sure she would he retorted passionately i know her better than...	45
was now in silence but from the drawing room there came sounds all that she could at first distinguish of them was one syllable continually repeated in a low note of moaning as if it came from a soul bound to some wheel o o or then a silence then a heavy sigh and again o o or the landlady looked through the only a sm...	45
and followed her to ttie landing fulfilment she opened the door of the drawing room and stood back for him to pass in entering herself behind him the room was empty the breakfast a substantial of coffee eggs and a cold ham lay spread upon the table untouched as when she had taken it up excepting that the carving knif...	45
a reverie what bodily is he dead yes he heard me about you and he bitterly me and called you by a foul name and then i did it my heart could not bear it he had me about you before and then i dressed myself and came away to find you by degrees he was inclined to believe that she had faintly attempted at least what she s...	45
my he said we ll stop soon and kissing her sad mouth he again led her he was growing weary likewise for they had wandered a dozen or fifteen miles and it became necessary to consider what they should do for rest they looked from afar at isolated cottages and little and were inclined to approach one of the latter when t...	45
night the dull cleared and the was that the old at the cottage awoke early the brilliant sunrise made her unusually brisk she decided to open the mansion immediately and to air it thoroughly on such a day thus it occurred that having arrived and opened the lower rooms before six o clock she ascended to the and was abou...	45
forming a wide enough for a carriage and it was soon obvious that they made up a forest of of the d upon the grassy expanse of the plain the couple advanced further into this of the n ht till they stood in its midst it is said the heathen temple you mean yes older than the centuries older than the d well what shall we ...	45
w brothers new york and london by tim or d x by by thomas hardy printed in the united of america by general preface to the and poems in accepting a proposal for a definite edition of these productions in prose and verse i have found an opportunity of the novels under heads that show the author s aim if not his achievem...	45
for reasons that seemed good at the time of writing them and kept up in the poems people have affirmed in print that they clearly recognize the such as in in in plain in the great plain chase in the chase in in hill in wool bridge in or lane in lane in in port maiden in chalk a farm near in ash in milton abbey in ab...	45
of her and hopes it was quite contrary to that the public should welcome the book and agree with me in holding that there was something more to be said in fiction than had been said about the shaded side of a weu known catastrophe but the spirit in which of the d has been by the readers of england and america would see...	45
of this novel contains a few pages that have never appeared in any previous edition when the detached were collected as stated in the preface of these pages were overlooked though they were in the original they occur in chapter x respecting the sub title to which allusion was made above i may add that it was at the las...	45
by the maiden my eyes and isn t there said and here have i been knocking about year after year from pillar to post as if i was no more than the commonest in the parish and how long this news about me been pa son un the clergyman explained that as far as he was aware it had quite died out of knowledge and could hardly b...	45
a difference in the young man s estimate of the position yes sir john thank ee anything else i can do for ee john tell em at that i like for supper well lamb s if they can get it and if they can t black pot and if they can t get that well will do yes sir john the boy took up the basket and as he set out the notes of a...	45
bank and opened the gate what are you going to do a ed tlie i am inclined to go and have a fling with them why not all of us just for a minute or two it will not detain us long no no nonsense said the first t dancing in public with a troop of country suppose we should be seen come along or it will be dark before we ...	45
tell you where the cradle and the song would cease simultaneously for a moment and an exclamation at high est pitch would take the place of the melody god bless thy eyes and thy cheeks and thy cheery mouth and s and every bit o thy blessed body after this tiie rocking and tiie singing would and the spotted cow proceed ...	45
felt so after his by the pa son s news that he went up to s half an ago he do want to get up his strength for his journey tomorrow with that load of b must be delivered family or no he ll have to start shortly after twelve to night as tiie distance is so long get up his strength said the tears to her eyes o my god go ...	45
an off license hence as nobody could l ally drink on the premises the amount of accommodation for con was strictly limited to a little board about six inches wide and two yards long fixed to the garden by pieces of wire so as to form a ledge on this board thirsty strangers deposited their cups as they stood in the roa...	45
grand marriage and she won t say nay to going is queer but she s at bottom leave her to me though this conversation had been private sufficient of its import reached the understanding of those around to suggest to them that the had concerns to talk of now than common folks had and that their pretty eldest daughter had ...	45
with the lantern some bread and butter and their own conversation the real morning being far from come as he more fully awoke for he had moved in a sort of trance so far began to talk of the strange shapes assumed by the various dark objects against the sky of this tree that looked like a raging tiger s from a of that ...	45
but he was already dead and seeing that nothing more could be done immediately the cart man to his own animal which was by op the d you was on the wrong side he said i am bound to go on with the mail bags so that the best thing for you to do is to bide here with your load i ll send somebody to help you as soon as i can...	45
understand why her mother should find such s by op the d in contemplating an enterprise of to her such doubtful profit her mother might have made in and have discovered that this mrs d was a lady of virtues and charity but s pride made the part of poor relation one of particular to her i d rather try to get work she mu...	45
hand of man grew as had grown when they were for bows all this antiquity however though visible from the slopes was outside the immediate boundaries of the estate everything on this snug property was bright and well kept acres of glass houses stretched down the to the at their feet everything looked like money like th...	45
in his face then he broke into a loud laugh well i m damned what a funny thing ha and what a girl by vi went down the hill to and waited to take her seat in the van from to she did not know what the other occupants said to her as she entered though she answered them and when they had started anew she rode along with an...	45
continued the matron to her husband and she s a fool if she don t follow it up i don t quite like my children going away from home said the as the h id of the family the rest ought to come to me but do let her go his poor wife he s struck wi her you can see that he called her he ll marry her most likely and make a lad...	45
girl s appearance led her to step back like a painter from his and survey her work as a whole you must self she cried it is much better than you was t other day as the looking glass was only large enough to reflect a very small portion of s person at one time mrs a black cloak outside the and so made a l e r of the pan...	45
box and disappeared behind the shoulder of the hill directly was out of sight and the interest of the matter as a drama was at an end the little ones eyes filled with tears the youngest child said i wish poor poor wasn t gone away to be a lady and lowering the comers of his burst out the new point of view was and the n...	45
the churchyard the descendants of these owners felt it almost as a slight to their family when the house which had so much of their affection had cost so much of their forefathers money and had been in their possession for several generations before the d came and built here was indifferently turned into a by mrs d as ...	45
going every night when work was done to a decayed market town two or three miles distant and returning in the small hours of the next morning to spend sunday in sleeping off the effects of the curious sold to them as beer by the of the once independent for a long time did not join in the weekly but under pressure from ...	45
me she did not dancing but she was not going to dance here the movement grew more passionate the behind the pillar of now and then varied the air by playing on the wrong side of the bridge or with the back of the bow but it did not matter the panting shapes spun they did not vary their partners if their inclination by ...	45
had perceived that the horse was not the spirited one he sometimes rode and felt no alarm on that score though her seat was precarious enough despite her tight hold of him she begged him to ow the animal to a walk whidi accordingly did neatly done was it not dear he said by yes said she i am sure i ought to be much obl...	45
from her mother s door to try her fortune at poultry farm end op phase the by by phase the second maiden no by by the second maiden no more xii the basket was heavy and the bundle was large but she them along like a person who did not find her especial burden in material things ck she stopped to rest in a mechanical wa...	45
i will not take anything more from you and i will not i cannot i be your creature to go on that and i won t one would think you were a princess from your manner in addition to a true and original d ha ha well dear i can say no more i suppose i am a bad a damn bad fellow i was bom bad and i have lived bad and i shall ...	45
last grotesque phase of a creed which had served mankind well in its time but the words entered with horror it was as if this man had known her recent history yet he was a total stranger having finished his text he picked up her basket and she mechanically resumed her walk beside him do you believe what you paint she a...	45
left this house four months ago why didn t you tell me there was danger in men folk why didn t you warn me ladies know what to hands against because they read novels tell them of these tricks but i never had the chance o learning in that way and you did not help me her mother was subdued i thought if i spoke of his fon...	45
the light and the darkness are so balanced that the of day and the suspense of night each other leaving absolute mental liberty it is then by op the d r that the plight of being alive becomes to its least possible dimensions she had no fear of the shadows her sole idea seemed to be to or rather that cold called the wo...	45
sobbing one night last year in the chase and it mid ha gone hard wi a certain party if folks had come along well a little more or a little less twas a thousand that it should have happened to she of all others but tis always the the plain ones be as safe as hey the speaker turned to one of the group who certainly was ...	45
arose with regard to the baby it had a very different colour her darling was about to die and no salvation it was nearly but she rushed downstairs and asked if she might send for the parson the moment happened to be one at which her father s sense of the antique nobility of his family was highest and his to the which h...	45
she would not but she would often clasp her hands behind her head and muse when she was supposed to be working hard she noted dates as they came past in the revolution of the year the disastrous night of her at with its dark background of the chase also the dates of the baby s birth and death also her own birthday and ...	45
would probably gain less good by her than harm by her example she went through without pausing and onward to a of where she could await a s van that ran to the south west for the which this interior tract of by op the d country had never yet struck across it while waiting however there came along a farmer in his drivin...	45
ever she suddenly stopped and murmured but perhaps i don t quite know the lord as yet and probably the half unconscious was a utterance in a setting women whose chief companions are the forms and fc of nature retain in their souls far more of the pagan of their remote forefathers than of the religion taught their race ...	45
richard seeing standing at gaze he went across to her the majority of have a cross manner at time but it happened that mr was glad to get a new hand f or the days were busy ones now and he received her warmly inquiring for her mother and the rest of the family though this as a matter of form merely for in reality he...	45
tones it is true and with no great the result according to their own belief being a decided improvement during the song s continuance when they had gone through fourteen or fifteen verses of a cheerful ballad about a murderer who was afraid to go to bed in the dark because he by of the d saw certain flames around him o...	45
sir he said it was ordered by mr angel and should have been sent to him mr as if he had been struck he went home pale and dejected and called angel into his study look into this book my boy he said what do you know about it i ordered it said angel simply what for to read how can you think of reading it how can i why i...	45
by the rally the removed his hard gaze from and fixed it on his wife now that s a rum thing hey to think o the miles i ve o nights these last thirty year or trading or for doctor or for nurse and yet never had the least notion o that till now or my soul rise so much as an inch above my shirt the general attention bein...	45
he said with some enthusiasm i should be only too glad my dear to help you to anything in the way of or any line of reading you would like to take up it is a lady again interrupted she holding out the bud she had what i mean that there are always more ladies than lords when you come to them never mind about the lords a...	45
and the stress of makes too little of enough thus passed the leafy time when seems to be the one thing aimed at out of doors and unconsciously studied each other ever balanced on the edge of a passion yet apparently keeping out of it au the while they were under an irresistible law as surely as two streams in one had n...	45
on the spot as the case might require or perhaps the fog was more general and the meadows lay like a white sea out of whidi the scattered trees rose like dangerous rocks birds would through it into the upper radiance and hang on the wing themselves or alight on the wet rails the which now shone like j ass rods minute d...	45
these last five months and on went the and jack s bones rattled round again well none of us ventured to interfere and at last a promised to make it right wi her yes i ll be as good as my word he said and so it ended that day while the listeners were smiling their comments there was a quick movement behind their backs ...	45
to they crept into their beds in a few minutes they heard him ascend the ladder to his own room was soon but did not drop into for a long time cried herself to sleep by op the d the deeper was very far from sleeping even then this conversation was another of the bitter she had been obliged to swallow that day scarce th...	45
well yes they are pretty girls afresh looking i have often thought so though poor won t last long o no they are excellent yes though not better than you they better than i do they remained observing them not without their observing him she is up continued who oh why is that because you are looking at her by op the s...	45
stand still nonsense you are not too heavy i d carry you au four together now attend he continued and put arms my shoulders so now hold on that s well done had lowered herself upon his arm and shoulder as directed and angel strode off with her his slim figure as viewed from behind looking like the mere stem to the gre...	45
i will be plain putting myself quite on one side i don t think he will choose either of you i have never expected it thought of it moaned i wish i was dead x by the rally the poor child torn by a feeling which she hardly understood turned to the other two girls who came upstairs just then we be friends with her again ...	45
of his time wi me add the with a which unconsciously was brutal and so i suppose he is beginning to see about his plans elsewhere how much longer is he to bide here asked the only one of the gloom stricken who could trust her voice with the question the others waited for the s answer as if their hung upon it with parte...	45
grief was of that blank description which could not realize that there might a part of a truth much less a half truth or a whole truth in such a proposition he had simply at angel for some time after but the kindness of his heart was such that he never resented anything for long and welcomed his son to day with a smile...	45

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