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...rtant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun. His Christian name was Gabriel, and on working days he was a young man of sound judgement, easy motions, proper dress, and general good character. On Sundays he was a man of misty vi...

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...9 THE HOMESTEAD? A VISITOR ? HALF-CONFIDENCES 59 -- 10 MISTRESS AND MEN, 64 -- 11 OUTSIDE THE BARRACKS ? SNOW? A MEETING, 70 -- 12 FARMERS ? A RULE ? IN EXCEPTION, 75 -- 13 SORTES SANCTORUM ? THE VALENTINE, 79 -- 14 EFFECT OF THE LETTER ? SUNRISE, 83 -- 15 A MORNING MEETING? THE LETTER AGAIN, 87 -- 16 ALL SAINTS? AND ALL SOULS?, 96 -- 17 IN THE MARKET-PLACE, 99 -- 18 BOLDW...

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... OAK — AN INCIDENT . . . . . 1 2 NIGHT — THE FLOCK — AN INTERIOR — ANOTHER IN TERIOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 ... ...1 OUTSIDE THE BARRACKS — SNOW — A MEETING . . . . 70 12 FARMERS — A RULE — IN EXCEPTION . . . . . . . . . . . 75 13 SORTES SANCTORUM — THE V ALENTINE ... .... . 87 16 ALL SAINTS’ AND ALL SOULS’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 17 IN THE MARKET PLACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 18 BOLDWOOD ... ...minster and Chalk Newton. Casually glancing over the hedge, Oak saw coming down the incline before him an ornamental spring waggon, painted yellow and... ...n, he did it so thoroughly that he would have chased them across the whole county with the greatest pleasure if not called off or reminded when to ste... ...ay in February, on which was held the yearly statute or hiring fair in the county town of Casterbridge. At one end of the street stood from two to thr... ...ruly they were as hardy, merry, thriving, wicked a set as any in the whole county. Oak resolved to sleep at Weatherbury that night on his way to Shott... ...and. ‘Tomorrow morning I wish two or three of you to make inquiries in the villages round if they have seen such a person as Fanny Robin. Do it quietl... ...first great principle of provincial existence, namely that God made country villages to supply customers to county towns, should have confused ideas ab...

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...makes the memory of what once filled it a treasure to be brought forward with joy and thankfulness. Nor would it be well that some of those mentioned in the coming narrative should be wholly forgotten, and their place know them no more....

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...Excerpt: I have kept one secret in the course of my life. I am a bashful man. Nobody would suppose it, nobody ever does suppose it, nobody ever did suppose it, but I am naturally a bashful man. This is the secret which I have never breathed until now....

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

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...Excerpt: On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with tho...

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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total o...

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...Introduction: In September of the year during the February of which Hawthorne had completed ?The Scarlet Letter,? he began ?The House of the Seven Gables.? Meanwhile, he had removed from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, ...

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