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<p>Title: Far from the Madding Crowd</p>
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<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD***</p>
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bearing date July 15, 1876, entitled one of its articles "The Wessex
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Labourer," the article turning out to be no dissertation on farming
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dream-country has, by degrees, solidified into a utilitarian region
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which people can go to, take a house in, and write to the papers
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from. But I ask all good and gentle readers to be so kind as to
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forget this, and to refuse steadfastly to believe that there are any
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the tale was written, a sufficient reality to meet the descriptions,
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both of backgrounds and personages, might have been traced easily
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enough. The church remains, by great good fortune, unrestored and
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<p>When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they
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<p>His Christian name was Gabriel, and on working days he was a young
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character. On Sundays he was a man of misty views, rather given to
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of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the
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be listening to the sermon. Or, to state his character as it stood in
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tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased,
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he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose
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dressed in that way. He wore a low-crowned felt hat, spread out at the
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each foot a roomy apartment so constructed that any wearer might stand
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intention, and a small clock as to size. This instrument being
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several years older than Oak's grandfather, had the peculiarity of
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going either too fast or not at all. The smaller of its hands, too,
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they belonged to. The stopping peculiarity of his watch Oak remedied
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by thumps and shakes, and he escaped any evil consequences from the
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green-faced timekeepers within. It may be mentioned that Oak's fob
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in the waistband of his trousers (which also lay at a remote height
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under his waistcoat), the watch was as a necessity pulled out by
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mere mass of ruddy flesh on account of the exertion required, and
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drawing up the watch by its chain, like a bucket from a well.
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<p>But some thoughtful persons, who had seen him walking across one of
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mild—might have regarded Gabriel Oak in other aspects than
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these. In his face one might notice that many of the hues and curves of
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youth had tarried on to manhood: there even remained in his remoter
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crannies some relics of the boy. His height and breadth would have
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with due consideration. But there is a way some men have, rural and
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sinew: it is a way of curtailing their dimensions by their manner of
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showing them. And from a quiet modesty that would have become a
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vestal, which seemed continually to impress upon him that he had no
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great claim on the world's room, Oak walked unassumingly and with a
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valuation more upon his appearance than upon his capacity to wear well,
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be the prefix of "man" in speaking of one. He was at the brightest
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period of masculine growth, for his intellect and his emotions were
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clearly separated: he had passed the time during which the influence
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of youth indiscriminately mingles them in the character of impulse,
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again, in the character of prejudice, by the influence of a wife and
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family. In short, he was twenty-eight, and a bachelor.
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<p>The field he was in this morning sloped to a ridge called Norcombe
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and Chalk-Newton. Casually glancing over the hedge, Oak saw coming
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down the incline before him an ornamental spring waggon, painted
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yellow and gaily marked, drawn by two horses, a waggoner walking
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alongside bearing a whip perpendicularly. The waggon was laden with
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household goods and window plants, and on the apex of the whole sat a
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woman, young and attractive. Gabriel had not beheld the sight for
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more than half a minute, when the vehicle was brought to a standstill
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particularly low voice. "I heard a noise I could not account for
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tables and chairs with their legs upwards, backed by an oak settle,
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and ornamented in front by pots of geraniums, myrtles, and cactuses,
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together with a caged canary—all probably from the windows of
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and down the perches of its prison. Then she looked attentively
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downwards. It was not at the bird, nor at the cat; it was at an
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oblong package tied in paper, and lying between them. She turned her
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upon what was inside it. At length she drew the article into her
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lap, and untied the paper covering; a small swing looking-glass was
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<p>It was a fine morning, and the sun lighted up to a scarlet glow the
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crimson jacket she wore, and painted a soft lustre upon her bright
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face and dark hair. The myrtles, geraniums, and cactuses packed
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around her were fresh and green, and at such a leafless season they
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invested the whole concern of horses, waggon, furniture, and girl
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with a peculiar vernal charm. What possessed her to indulge in such
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unperceived farmer who were alone its spectators,—whether the
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smile began as a factitious one, to test her capacity in that
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art,—nobody knows; it ended certainly in a real smile. She
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<p>The change from the customary spot and necessary occasion of such an
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out of doors—lent to the idle deed a novelty it did not
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intrinsically possess. The picture was a delicate one. Woman's
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prescriptive infirmity had stalked into the sunlight, which had clothed
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looking in the glass. She did not adjust her hat, or pat her hair, or
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press a dimple into shape, or do one thing to signify that any such
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intention had been her motive in taking up the glass. She simply
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thoughts seeming to glide into far-off though likely dramas in which
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and won. Still, this was but conjecture, and the whole series of
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you would wish me not to when I told 'ee or I shouldn't ha'
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thought of doing it," he said, simply. "I have arranged for
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the part of mentor to me many times, and I don't see why you
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tail o't is this—that I am sniffing about here, and
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waiting for poor Boldwood's farm, with a thought of getting
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of marrying. It is too absurd, as you say."
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you, and marry you after all—if I only knew that!"
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them! It was very cruel of you, considering I was the first
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sweetheart that you ever had, and you were the first I ever
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woman, had a proper hard part to play—more particular
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arises (if any arises at all) when the two who are thrown
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together begin first by knowing the rougher sides of each
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other's character, and not the best till further on, the
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romance growing up in the interstices of a mass of hard
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prosaic reality. This
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good-fellowship—<i>camaraderie</i>—usually
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occurring through similarity of pursuits, is
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unfortunately seldom superadded to love between the sexes,
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because men and women associate, not in their labours, but
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in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy
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circumstance permits its development, the compounded feeling
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proves itself to be the only love which is strong as
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death—that love which many waters
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cannot quench, nor the floods
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drown, beside which the passion usually called by the name
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is evanescent as steam.
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<h3>CHAPTER LVII<br>
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A FOGGY NIGHT AND MORNING—CONCLUSION</h3>
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<p>"The most private, secret, plainest wedding that it is
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possible to have."
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<p>Those had been Bathsheba's words to Oak one evening, some
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time after the event of the preceding chapter, and he
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meditated a full hour by the clock upon how to carry out her
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wishes to the letter.
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<p>"A license—O yes, it must be a license," he said to
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himself at last. "Very well, then; first, a license."
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<p>On a dark night, a few days later, Oak came with mysterious
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steps from the surrogate's door, in Casterbridge. On the
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way home he heard a heavy tread in front of him, and,
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overtaking the man, found him to be Coggan. They walked
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together into the village until they came to a little lane
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behind the church, leading down to the cottage of Laban
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Tall, who had lately been installed as clerk of the parish,
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and was yet in mortal terror at church on Sundays when he
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heard his lone voice among certain hard words of the Psalms,
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whither no man ventured to follow him.
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<p>"Well, good-night, Coggan," said Oak, "I'm going down this
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way."
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<p>"Oh!" said Coggan, surprised; "what's going on to-night
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then, make so bold Mr. Oak?"
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<p>It seemed rather ungenerous not to tell Coggan, under the
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circumstances, for Coggan had been true as steel all through
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the time of Gabriel's unhappiness about Bathsheba, and
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Gabriel said, "You can keep a secret, Coggan?"
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<p>"You've proved me, and you know."
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<p>"Yes, I have, and I do know. Well, then, mistress and I
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mean to get married to-morrow morning."
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<p>"Heaven's high tower! And yet I've thought of such a thing
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from time to time; true, I have. But keeping it so close!
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Well, there, 'tis no consarn of of mine, and I wish 'ee joy
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o' her."
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<p>"Thank you, Coggan. But I assure 'ee that this great hush
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is not what I wished for at all, or what either of us would
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have wished if it hadn't been for certain things that would
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make a gay wedding seem hardly the thing. Bathsheba has a
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great wish that all the parish shall not be in church,
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looking at her—she's shy-like and nervous about it, in
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fact—so I be doing this to humour her."
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<p>"Ay, I see: quite right, too, I suppose I must say. And you
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be now going down to the clerk."
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<p>"Yes; you may as well come with me."
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<p>"I am afeard your labour in keeping it close will be throwed
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away," said Coggan, as they walked along. "Labe Tall's old
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woman will horn it all over parish in half-an-hour."
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<p>"So she will, upon my life; I never thought of that," said
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Oak, pausing. "Yet I must tell him to-night, I suppose, for
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he's working so far off, and leaves early."
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<p>"I'll tell 'ee how we could tackle her," said Coggan. "I'll
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knock and ask to speak to Laban outside the door, you
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standing in the background. Then he'll come out, and you
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can tell yer tale. She'll never guess what I want en for;
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and I'll make up a few words about the farm-work, as a
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blind."
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<p>This scheme was considered feasible; and Coggan advanced
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boldly, and rapped at Mrs. Tall's door. Mrs. Tall herself
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opened it.
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<p>"I wanted to have a word with Laban."
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<p>"He's not at home, and won't be this side of eleven o'clock.
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He've been forced to go over to Yalbury since shutting out
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work. I shall do quite as well."
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<p>"I hardly think you will. Stop a moment;" and Coggan
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stepped round the corner of the porch to consult Oak.
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<p>"Who's t'other man, then?" said Mrs. Tall.
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<p>"Only a friend," said Coggan.
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<p>"Say he's wanted to meet mistress near church-hatch
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to-morrow morning at ten," said Oak, in a whisper. "That he
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must come without fail, and wear his best clothes."
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<p>"The clothes will floor us as safe as houses!" said Coggan.
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<p>"It can't be helped," said Oak. "Tell her."
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<p>So Coggan delivered the message. "Mind, het or wet, blow or
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snow, he must come," added Jan. "'Tis very particular,
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indeed. The fact is, 'tis to witness her sign some law-work
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about taking shares wi' another farmer for a long span o'
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years. There, that's what 'tis, and now I've told 'ee,
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Mother Tall, in a way I shouldn't ha' done if I hadn't loved
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'ee so hopeless well."
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<p>Coggan retired before she could ask any further; and next
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they called at the vicar's in a manner which excited no
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curiosity at all. Then Gabriel went home, and prepared for
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the morrow.
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<br><br><br>
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<p>"Liddy," said Bathsheba, on going to bed that night, "I want
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you to call me at seven o'clock to-morrow, In case I
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shouldn't wake."
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<p>"But you always do wake afore then, ma'am."
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<p>"Yes, but I have something important to do, which I'll tell
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you of when the time comes, and it's best to make sure."
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<p>Bathsheba, however, awoke voluntarily at four, nor could she
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by any contrivance get to sleep again. About six, being
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quite positive that her watch had stopped during the night,
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she could wait no longer. She went and tapped at Liddy's
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door, and after some labour awoke her.
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<p>"But I thought it was I who had to call you?" said the
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bewildered Liddy. "And it isn't six yet."
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<p>"Indeed it is; how can you tell such a story, Liddy? I know
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it must be ever so much past seven. Come to my room as soon
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as you can; I want you to give my hair a good brushing."
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<p>When Liddy came to Bathsheba's room her mistress was already
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waiting. Liddy could not understand this extraordinary
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promptness. "Whatever <i>is</i> going on, ma'am?" she said.
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<p>"Well, I'll tell you," said Bathsheba, with a mischievous
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smile in her bright eyes. "Farmer Oak is coming here to
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dine with me to-day!"
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<p>"Farmer Oak—and nobody else?—you two alone?"
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<p>"Yes."
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<p>"But is it safe, ma'am, after what's been said?" asked her
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companion, dubiously. "A woman's good name is such a
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perishable article that—"
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<p>Bathsheba laughed with a flushed cheek, and whispered in
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Liddy's ear, although there was nobody present. Then Liddy
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stared and exclaimed, "Souls alive, what news! It makes my
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heart go quite bumpity-bump!"
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<p>"It makes mine rather furious, too," said Bathsheba.
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"However, there's no getting out of it now!"
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<p>It was a damp disagreeable morning. Nevertheless, at twenty
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minutes to ten o'clock, Oak came out of his house, and
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<br><br><br>
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<blockquote><blockquote>
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Went up the hill side<br>
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With that sort of stride<br>
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A man puts out when walking in search of a bride,<br>
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</blockquote></blockquote>
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<br>
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and knocked Bathsheba's door. Ten minutes later a large and
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a smaller umbrella might have been seen moving from the same
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door, and through the mist along the road to the church.
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The distance was not more than a quarter of a mile, and
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these two sensible persons deemed it unnecessary to drive.
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An observer must have been very close indeed to discover
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that the forms under the umbrellas were those of Oak and
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Bathsheba, arm-in-arm for the first time in their lives, Oak
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in a greatcoat extending to his knees, and Bathsheba in a
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cloak that reached her clogs. Yet, though so plainly
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dressed, there was a certain rejuvenated appearance about
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her:—
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+
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<br><br><br>
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<blockquote><blockquote>
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As though a rose should shut and be a bud again.
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</blockquote></blockquote>
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<br>
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<p>Repose had again incarnadined her cheeks; and having, at
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Gabriel's request, arranged her hair this morning as she had
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worn it years ago on Norcombe Hill, she seemed in his eyes
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remarkably like a girl of that fascinating dream, which,
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+
considering that she was now only three or four-and-twenty,
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was perhaps not very wonderful. In the church were Tall,
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Liddy, and the parson, and in a remarkably short space of
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time the deed was done.
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<p>The two sat down very quietly to tea in Bathsheba's parlour
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in the evening of the same day, for it had been arranged
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that Farmer Oak should go there to live, since he had as yet
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neither money, house, nor furniture worthy of the name,
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though he was on a sure way towards them, whilst Bathsheba
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was, comparatively, in a plethora of all three.
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<p>Just as Bathsheba was pouring out a cup of tea, their ears
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were greeted by the firing of a cannon, followed by what
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seemed like a tremendous blowing of trumpets, in the front
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|
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of the house.
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<p>"There!" said Oak, laughing, "I knew those fellows were up
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to something, by the look on their faces"
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<p>Oak took up the light and went into the porch, followed by
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Bathsheba with a shawl over her head. The rays fell upon a
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group of male figures gathered upon the gravel in front,
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who, when they saw the newly-married couple in the porch,
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set up a loud "Hurrah!" and at the same moment bang again
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went the cannon in the background, followed by a hideous
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clang of music from a drum, tambourine, clarionet, serpent,
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hautboy, tenor-viol, and double-bass—the only remaining
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relics of the true and original
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Weatherbury band—venerable worm-eaten
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instruments, which had celebrated in
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their own persons the victories of Marlborough, under the
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fingers of the forefathers of those who played them now.
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The performers came forward, and marched up to the front.
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<p>"Those bright boys, Mark Clark and Jan, are at the bottom of
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all this," said Oak. "Come in, souls, and have something to
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eat and drink wi' me and my wife."
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<p>"Not to-night," said Mr. Clark, with evident self-denial.
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+
"Thank ye all the same; but we'll call at a more seemly
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time. However, we couldn't think of letting the day pass
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without a note of admiration of some sort. If ye could send
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a drop of som'at down to Warren's, why so it is. Here's
|
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+
long life and happiness to neighbour Oak and his comely
|
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|
+
bride!"
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|
+
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|
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<p>"Thank ye; thank ye all," said Gabriel. "A bit and a drop
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|
+
shall be sent to Warren's for ye at once. I had a thought
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+
that we might very likely get a salute of some sort from our
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|
+
old friends, and I was saying so to my wife but now."
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+
|
|
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+
<p>"Faith," said Coggan, in a critical tone, turning to his
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+
companions, "the man hev learnt to say 'my wife' in a
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wonderful naterel way, considering how very youthful he is
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+
in wedlock as yet—hey, neighbours all?"
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|
+
|
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+
<p>"I never heerd a skilful old married feller of twenty years'
|
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|
+
standing pipe 'my wife' in a more used note than 'a did,"
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+
said Jacob Smallbury. "It might have been a little more
|
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|
+
true to nater if't had been spoke a little chillier, but
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|
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|
+
that wasn't to be expected just now."
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|
+
|
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|
+
<p>"That improvement will come wi' time," said Jan, twirling
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|
+
his eye.
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|
+
|
|
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|
+
<p>Then Oak laughed, and Bathsheba smiled (for she never
|
|
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|
+
laughed readily now), and their friends turned to go.
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+
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|
+
<p>"Yes; I suppose that's the size o't," said Joseph Poorgrass
|
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|
+
with a cheerful sigh as they moved away; "and I wish him joy
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+
o' her; though I were once or twice upon saying to-day with
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|
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+
holy Hosea, in my scripture manner, which is my second
|
|
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+
nature, 'Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.' But
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+
since 'tis as 'tis, why, it might have been worse, and I feel
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|
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|
+
my thanks accordingly."
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+
<br>
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+
<br>
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|
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