54 Chapters
Michaelmas came and passed, and Jude and his wife, who had lived but a short time in her father’s house after their remarriage, were in lodgings on the top floor of a dwelling nearer to the centre of…
On the platform stood Arabella. She looked him up and down. “You’ve been to see her?” she asked. “I have,” said Jude, literally tottering with cold and lassitude. “Well, now you’d best march along ho…
Despite himself Jude recovered somewhat, and worked at his trade for several weeks. After Christmas, however, he broke down again. With the money he had earned he shifted his lodgings to a yet more c…
The last pages to which the chronicler of these lives would ask the reader’s attention are concerned with the scene in and out of Jude’s bedroom when leafy summer came round again. His face was now s…