Subject for February, 2020
CHAPTER LVII A FOGGY NIGHT AND MORNING—CONCLUSION
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
“The most private, secret, plainest wedding that it is possible to have.” Those had been Bathsheba’s words to Oak one evening, some time after the event of the...
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CHAPTER LVI BEAUTY IN LONELINESS—AFTER ALL
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
Bathsheba revived with the spring. The utter prostration that had followed the low fever from which she had suffered diminished perceptibly when all uncertainty upon every subje...
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CHAPTER LV THE MARCH FOLLOWING—”BATHSHEBA BOLDWOOD”
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
We pass rapidly on into the month of March, to a breezy day without sunshine, frost, or dew. On Yalbury Hill, about midway between Weatherbury and Casterbridge, where the turnpi...
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CHAPTER LIV AFTER THE SHOCK
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
Boldwood passed into the high road and turned in the direction of Casterbridge. Here he walked at an even, steady pace over Yalbury Hill, along the dead level beyond, mounted Me...
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CHAPTER LIII CONCURRITUR—HORAE MOMENTO
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
Outside the front of Boldwood’s house a group of men stood in the dark, with their faces towards the door, which occasionally opened and closed for the passage of some gue...
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CHAPTER LII CONVERGING COURSES
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I Christmas-eve came, and a party that Boldwood was to give in the evening was the great subject of talk in Weatherbury. It was not that the rarity of Christmas parties in the...
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CHAPTER LI BATHSHEBA TALKS WITH HER OUTRIDER
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
The arrangement for getting back again to Weatherbury had been that Oak should take the place of Poorgrass in Bathsheba’s conveyance and drive her home, it being discovere...
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CHAPTER L THE SHEEP FAIR—TROY TOUCHES HIS WIFE’S HAND
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
Greenhill was the Nijni Novgorod of South Wessex; and the busiest, merriest, noisiest day of the whole statute number was the day of the sheep fair. This yearly gathering was up...
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CHAPTER XLIX OAK’S ADVANCEMENT—A GREAT HOPE
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
The later autumn and the winter drew on apace, and the leaves lay thick upon the turf of the glades and the mosses of the woods. Bathsheba, having previously been living in a st...
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CHAPTER XLVIII DOUBTS ARISE—DOUBTS LINGER
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
Bathsheba underwent the enlargement of her husband’s absence from hours to days with a slight feeling of surprise, and a slight feeling of relief; yet neither sensation ro...
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