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Chapter 9 THE HOMESTEAD-A VISITOR-HALF-CONFIDENCES

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ards its architecture, and of a proportion which told at a glance that, as is so frequently the case, it had once been the memorial hall upon a small estate a

ildings. A gravel walk leading from the door to the road in front was encrusted at the sides with more moss-here it was a silver-green variety, the nut-brown of the gravel being visible to the width of only a foot or two in the centre. This circumstance, and the generally sleepy air of the whole prospect here, together with the animated and contrasting state of the reverse fa?ade, suggested t

rs themselves continually twisting round like a person trying to look over his shoulder. Going up, the floors above were found to have a very irregular surface, rising to ridges, sinking into valleys; and being just then uncarpeted, the face of the boards

bout Bathsheba's equal in age, and her face was a prominent advertisement of the light-hearted English country girl. The beauty her features might have lacked in form was amply made up for by perfection of hue, which at this winter-time was the softened ruddiness on a surface of high rotundity that we meet with in a Terburg or a Gerard Do

who for a face had a circular disc, furrowed less by age than by long gazes of perplexity at distant objects.

" said Bathsheba through the d

uspended

ces slackened, turned in at the wicket, and, what was most unusual, came up the

de up the footpath like that! Why didn't he stop at the

!" said B

dy's concern was continued by

ggan go to the door?

nded more decisively

uttering under the onset of a c

see, here'

nanswerable after

must," said

ith dust from the rubbish they were sortin

exhaling her relief in the form of a long brea

ed, and a dee

Everdene

s. Coggan, and in a minu

rl a mop with the accuracy of pure mathematics, and who at this moment showed hands shaggy with fragments of dough and arms encrusted with flour). "I am never up to my elbows, Miss, in making a pudding

disorder in the one being of the same nature with a mal

in this state. Wh

erbury farmhouses, so Liddy suggested-"Say yo

ry well," said Mrs.

t see him-t

ested, adding, however, on her own responsibility, "Miss is

ifferently. "All I wanted to ask was, if

is gone to Casterbridge, where her young man lives, as is

recommenced and retreat

Boldwood?" s

armer at Littl

rri

, m

old i

ery handsome-rather st

me unfortunate plight or other," Bathsheba said,

k her and put her to school, and got her her place here unde

ha

tried him. Jane Perkins worked at him for two months like a slave, and the two Miss Taylors spent a year upon him, and he cost Farmer Ives

trict as the Avons and Derwents among our rivers. He always had a loosened tooth or a cut finger to show to particular friends, which he did with an air of being there

said Master Coggan i

it you, Teddy

He gave it to me fo

did he

d, 'To Miss Everdene's please,' and he said, 'She is a st

ild! What did y

gave me t

child had gone. "Get away, Maryann, or go on with your scrubbing, or do so

r men I won't have, and the rich men who won't h

s?" Liddy ventured to ask when they wer

o say yes, since it was really in her power was irresistible by aspir

ghly experienced tone, and the image of G

with the fixed features of mental rea

uite good en

nk you!' I seem I hear it. 'No, sir-I'm your better.' or 'Kiss my foot,

t I rather

you

hat footsteps ar

g individuals advanced in the completest balance of intention, like the remarkable creatures known as Chain Salp?, which, distinctly organized in other respects, have one will common to a whole family. Some were,

," said Liddy, making her n

p them in the kitchen till I am dressed,

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Contents

Chapter 1 1 Chapter 2 NIGHT-THE FLOCK-AN INTERIOR-ANOTHER INTERIOR Chapter 3 A GIRL ON HORSEBACK-CONVERSATION Chapter 4 GABRIEL'S RESOLVE-THE VISIT-THE MISTAKE Chapter 5 DEPARTURE OF BATHSHEBA-A PASTORAL TRAGEDY Chapter 6 THE FAIR-THE JOURNEY-THE FIRE Chapter 7 RECOGNITION-A TIMID GIRL Chapter 8 THE MALTHOUSE-THE CHAT-NEWS Chapter 9 THE HOMESTEAD-A VISITOR-HALF-CONFIDENCES Chapter 10 MISTRESS AND MEN Chapter 11 OUTSIDE THE BARRACKS-SNOW-A MEETING
Chapter 12 FARMERS-A RULE-AN EXCEPTION
Chapter 13 SORTES SANCTORUM-THE VALENTINE
Chapter 14 EFFECT OF THE LETTER-SUNRISE
Chapter 15 A MORNING MEETING-THE LETTER AGAIN
Chapter 16 ALL SAINTS' AND ALL SOULS'
Chapter 17 IN THE MARKET-PLACE
Chapter 18 18
Chapter 19 THE SHEEP-WASHING-THE OFFER
Chapter 20 PERPLEXITY-GRINDING THE SHEARS-A QUARREL
Chapter 21 TROUBLES IN THE FOLD-A MESSAGE
Chapter 22 THE GREAT BARN AND THE SHEEP-SHEARERS
Chapter 23 EVENTIDE-A SECOND DECLARATION
Chapter 24 THE SAME NIGHT-THE FIR PLANTATION
Chapter 25 THE NEW ACQUAINTANCE DESCRIBED
Chapter 26 SCENE ON THE VERGE OF THE HAY-MEAD
Chapter 27 HIVING THE BEES
Chapter 28 THE HOLLOW AMID THE FERNS
Chapter 29 PARTICULARS OF A TWILIGHT WALK
Chapter 30 HOT CHEEKS AND TEARFUL EYES
Chapter 31 BLAME-FURY
Chapter 32 NIGHT-HORSES TRAMPING
Chapter 33 IN THE SUN-A HARBINGER
Chapter 34 HOME AGAIN-A TRICKSTER
Chapter 35 AT AN UPPER WINDOW
Chapter 36 WEALTH IN JEOPARDY-THE REVEL
Chapter 37 THE STORM-THE TWO TOGETHER
Chapter 38 RAIN-ONE SOLITARY MEETS ANOTHER
Chapter 39 COMING HOME-A CRY
Chapter 40 ON CASTERBRIDGE HIGHWAY
Chapter 41 SUSPICION-FANNY IS SENT FOR
Chapter 42 JOSEPH AND HIS BURDEN-BUCK'S HEAD
Chapter 43 FANNY'S REVENGE
Chapter 44 UNDER A TREE-REACTION
Chapter 45 TROY'S ROMANTICISM
Chapter 46 THE GURGOYLE ITS DOINGS
Chapter 47 DOUBTS ARISE-DOUBTS LINGER
Chapter 48 OAK'S ADVANCEMENT-A GREAT HOPE
Chapter 49 THE SHEEP FAIR-TROY TOUCHES HIS WIFE'S HAND
Chapter 50 BATHSHEBA TALKS WITH HER OUTRIDER
Chapter 51 CONVERGING COURSES
Chapter 52 CONCURRITUR-HORAE MOMENTO
Chapter 53 AFTER THE SHOCK
Chapter 54 THE MARCH FOLLOWING- BATHSHEBA BOLDWOOD
Chapter 55 BEAUTY IN LONELINESS-AFTER ALL
Chapter 56 A FOGGY NIGHT AND MORNING-CONCLUSION
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