Subject for February, 2020
CHAPTER XVII IN THE MARKET-PLACE
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
On Saturday Boldwood was in Casterbridge market house as usual, when the disturber of his dreams entered and became visible to him. Adam had awakened from his deep sleep, and be...
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CHAPTER XVI ALL SAINTS’ AND ALL SOULS’
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
On a week-day morning a small congregation, consisting mainly of women and girls, rose from its knees in the mouldy nave of a church called All Saints’, in the distant bar...
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CHAPTER XV A MORNING MEETING—THE LETTER AGAIN
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
The scarlet and orange light outside the malthouse did not penetrate to its interior, which was, as usual, lighted by a rival glow of similar hue, radiating from the hearth. The...
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CHAPTER XIV EFFECT OF THE LETTER—SUNRISE
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
At dusk, on the evening of St. Valentine’s Day, Boldwood sat down to supper as usual, by a beaming fire of aged logs. Upon the mantel-shelf before him was a time-piece, su...
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CHAPTER XIII SORTES SANCTORUM—THE VALENTINE
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
It was Sunday afternoon in the farmhouse, on the thirteenth of February. Dinner being over, Bathsheba, for want of a better companion, had asked Liddy to come and sit with her. ...
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CHAPTER XII FARMERS—A RULE—AN EXCEPTION
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
The first public evidence of Bathsheba’s decision to be a farmer in her own person and by proxy no more was her appearance the following market-day in the cornmarket at Ca...
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CHAPTER XI OUTSIDE THE BARRACKS—SNOW—A MEETING
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
For dreariness nothing could surpass a prospect in the outskirts of a certain town and military station, many miles north of Weatherbury, at a later hour on this same snowy even...
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CHAPTER X MISTRESS AND MEN
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
Half-an-hour later Bathsheba, in finished dress, and followed by Liddy, entered the upper end of the old hall to find that her men had all deposited themselves on a long form an...
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CHAPTER IX THE HOMESTEAD—A VISITOR—HALF-CONFIDENCES
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
By daylight, the bower of Oak’s new-found mistress, Bathsheba Everdene, presented itself as a hoary building, of the early stage of Classic Renaissance as regards its arch...
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CHAPTER VIII THE MALTHOUSE—THE CHAT—NEWS-2
Subject: Far from the Madding Crowd
“Oh, I thought he was quite a common man!” said Joseph. “Oh no, no! That man failed for heaps of money; hundreds in gold and silver.” The maltster being ...
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