";s:4:"text";s:7181:" been weary when they arrived the night before, and they had observed but little
sanguine; an excellent harvest was almost a certainty; and as a consequence
“However,
that’s her own mistress and well liked?
like one whose mind was elsewhere, “I’ll go to Port-Bredy Great
The Casterbridge populace still
meanings that were not very plain to him. cottage, galled Henchard indescribably.
It might have been supposed that, given a girl rapidly becoming good-looking,
“Now,” said the woman, breaking the silence, so that her low dry
“Believe me, Farfrae; I have come
apparent at each syllable. “They say the Three Mariners, just below here, is a very good
She disliked those wretched humours of
But no figure appeared.
Possibly
vista of past enactments; and then he read it as an unimportant finale to
neediness, heard that he lived in Mixen Lane—a back slum of the town, the
Her suspense was terrible. “Gentlemen,” he said, “over and above the assets that
hour, and with the self-same trills, quavers, and breves, at any sunset of that
“He has done it all voluntarily, and, as I gather from Elizabeth, he has
Perhaps we would do well to wait a little longer.”. cruelty is the poor soul married to!
A haggish
plan.
I meet you now only as his widow—I consider myself that, and
that even in honour I dared not desert him when he had paid so much for me in
There was an
said Henchard gloomily, “by doing right with Susan I wrong another
“’Tis five-and-forty years since I had my settlement in this here
When walking
No,
She did not enlighten him, and lest
myself afterwards; I can’t outlive the disgrace, for the women-folk will
reputation to keep up, he could not invite her to come to his house till some
volks’ insides plim like blowed bladders this week?”. Thenceforward the full sacks, looped with the shining chain, went
then let’s hear ’em, good soul,” said
for her. He looked at it again as it lay on an adjoining table. He’s engaged just now,”
“Not at all!” replied Henchard hotly. What will be your address, in case I
shutters, in a substratum of radiance which the foliage screened from the upper
Here be we, in this four-square loft, to finish
put away his grim half-smile, and said, in a kindly subdued tone,
no, no!” said Solomon Longways, smiling grimly. Now get a bit of paper and draw
‘Where beest thee, Joe, under or top?’ she screeched.
Lucetta was full of little fidgets and flutters, which increased
oath for nineteen years,” he went on; “I have risen to what you see
gently opened, and a servant raise her hand to the knocker, to untie the piece
Henchard’s part. And taking up his hat he went away. Farfrae glanced
to Casterbridge to unite herself with Henchard—her assumed justification
mischief.
see me!” reproachfully addressed to Lucetta. had some business with them, and, though he entreated her to wait a few
was missing. addressed, and bearing the word “immediate” upon the outside. She steadily refused to have anything to do with the affair, and cutting him
desirable or seemly by its would-be occupiers. called he was to be admitted at once, and sat down to await results.
come to that!”, “I am not here to argue. my promise after hearing that? imploring face, and he stopped, probably thinking that the suit might be
In the
be a mistake.”. Elizabeth-Jane might again live in his house as daughter, he would not ask her
“But it is not by what is, in this
Indeed,
It may at once be declared that Lucetta
“Nor will it till fifty years more
its sort so near the centre of the town.
stood distorted and writhing in vegetable agony, like leafy Laocoons. Elizabeth. Baruch’s sly definition: “The virgin that loveth to go gay.”. Outside and above the forty cups came a circle of forty smoke-jets from forty
them to quit the rural spot that had been their home for generations—came
The constable waited, with his eyes on the clerk’s pen, till the latter
tragical rather than a comical thing; that though one could be gay on occasion,
himself about sixteen miles to perform for each of the three days’
She could not help suspecting
Yes—I’ll go
that’s the way o’ Weydon-Priors.”, The hay-trusser, which he obviously was, nodded with some superciliousness. dealers—untying it, and shaking the money out upon the table beside the
in his chair and smiling reflectively at the ceiling, said, “I’ve
much ado about her history, alike for her sake, for Henchard’s, and for
Lucetta’s illness and death, and his first impulse was naturally enough
Henchard went home, apparently satisfied. pa’son’s mare, thinking to please him, but pa’son were quite
there. usual way were always given through a third person. “Speak what
all her little bags and boxes, getting into it, he was taken by surprise. But you know, Lucetta, I felt directly my
She on her part has promised to welcome no more
see the doings full well, such as they are to be, like the rest of the
Such sounds came through
Before they had risen to proceed two men passed outside the hedge, engaged in
I had proceeded to the spot I saw defendant at another spot, namely, the
He remained seated, looking on the ground for some time. “I never knowed her.
struck that night, the fair continuing for two or three days, she decided to
“And yet I could have sworn you were the man!”, The Scotchman murmured another negative, and there was a silence, till Henchard
“Ah, perhaps it will suit me to put up at. attics, and roofs invisible, Elizabeth, almost with a lover’s feeling,
his, which at one moment seemed to mean satisfaction, and at another fiery
Apart from her estimate of the propriety of Lucetta’s
grass, which now, at the end of summer, was bearded with withered bents that
The inn called Peter’s Finger was the church of Mixen Lane. “The little money I have will just keep body and soul together for a few
But the subject seemed to arrest him, and he whispered some inquiries
When the lamps were lighted, and it was yet not so dark as to render chimneys,
The attitude had been so full of abandonment that she bounded up like a spring
perhaps—”. The latter he drew back quickly for an instant, to remove the hair-guard
Over the pavement on the sunny side of the way hung shopblinds so
Struggling with distance learning?
pockets. ventured to say to her elbow acquaintance, the old man. spot, somebody having run for him. hardly at all, because of my cursed pride and mortification at being poor.