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It was a morning of the latter summer-time; a morning of lingering dews, when the grass is never dry in the shade. Fuchsias and dahlias were laden till eleven o’clock with small drops and dashes of …
“That is serious,” said Dick, more intellectually than he had spoken for a long time. The truth was that Geoffrey knew nothing about his daughter’s continued walks and meetings with Dick. When a hi…
Dick, dressed in his ‘second-best’ suit, burst into Fancy’s sitting-room with a glow of pleasure on his face. It was two o’clock on Friday, the day before her contemplated visit to her father, and fo…
Saturday evening saw Dick Dewy journeying on foot to Yalbury Wood, according to the arrangement with Fancy. The landscape being concave, at the going down of the sun everything suddenly assumed a uni…
The next scene is a tempestuous afternoon in the following month, and Fancy Day is discovered walking from her father’s home towards Mellstock. A single vast gray cloud covered the country, from whic…
Mrs. Endorfield’s advice was duly followed. “I be proper sorry that your daughter isn’t so well as she might be,” said a Mellstock man to Geoffrey one morning. “But is there anything in it?” said Geo…
The visit to Geoffrey passed off as delightfully as a visit might have been expected to pass off when it was the first day of smooth experience in a hitherto obstructed love-course. And then came a …
The day was done, and Fancy was again in the school-house. About five o’clock it began to rain, and in rather a dull frame of mind she wandered into the schoolroom, for want of something better to d…
The next morning the vicar rose early. The first thing he did was to write a long and careful letter to his friend in Yorkshire. Then, eating a little breakfast, he crossed the meadows in the direc…
The last day of the story is dated just subsequent to that point in the development of the seasons when country people go to bed among nearly naked trees, are lulled to sleep by a fall of rain, and a…
