Subject for February, 2020
CHAPTER XLVII ADVENTURES BY THE SHORE
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
Troy wandered along towards the south. A composite feeling, made up of disgust with the, to him, humdrum tediousness of a farmer’s life, gloomy images of her who lay in th...
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THE GURGOYLE: ITS DOINGS
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
The tower of Weatherbury Church was a square erection of fourteenth-century date, having two stone gurgoyles on each of the four faces of its parapet. Of these eight carved prot...
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CHAPTER XLV TROY’S ROMANTICISM
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
When Troy’s wife had left the house at the previous midnight his first act was to cover the dead from sight. This done he ascended the stairs, and throwing himself down up...
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CHAPTER XLIV UNDER A TREE—REACTION
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
Bathsheba went along the dark road, neither knowing nor caring about the direction or issue of her flight. The first time that she definitely noticed her position was when she r...
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CHAPTER XLIII FANNY’S REVENGE
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
“Do you want me any longer ma’am?” inquired Liddy, at a later hour the same evening, standing by the door with a chamber candlestick in her hand and addressing...
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CHAPTER XLII JOSEPH AND HIS BURDEN—BUCK’S HEAD
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
A wall bounded the site of Casterbridge Union-house, except along a portion of the end. Here a high gable stood prominent, and it was covered like the front with a mat of ivy. I...
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CHAPTER XLI SUSPICION—FANNY IS SENT FOR
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
Bathsheba said very little to her husband all that evening of their return from market, and he was not disposed to say much to her. He exhibited the unpleasant combination of a ...
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CHAPTER XL ON CASTERBRIDGE HIGHWAY
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
For a considerable time the woman walked on. Her steps became feebler, and she strained her eyes to look afar upon the naked road, now indistinct amid the penumbræ of night. At ...
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CHAPTER XXXIX COMING HOME—A CRY
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
On the turnpike road, between Casterbridge and Weatherbury, and about three miles from the former place, is Yalbury Hill, one of those steep long ascents which pervade the highw...
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CHAPTER XXXVIII RAIN—ONE SOLITARY MEETS ANOTHER
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
It was now five o’clock, and the dawn was promising to break in hues of drab and ash. The air changed its temperature and stirred itself more vigorously. Cool breezes cour...
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