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...Table of Contents: 1 DESCRIPTION OF FARMER OAK? AN INCIDENT, 1 -- 2 NIGHT ? THE FLOCK ? AN INTERIOR ? ANOTHER INTERIOR -- ., 6 -- 3 A GIRL ON HORSEBACK? CONVERSATION, 13 -- 4 GABRIEL?S RESOLVE ? THE VISIT ? THE MISTAKE, 20 -- 5 DEPARTURE OF BATHSHEBA ? A PASTORAL TRAGEDY, 28 -- 6 THE FAIR ?THE JOURNE...

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... Contents 1 DESCRIPTION OF FARMER OAK — AN INCIDENT . . . . . 1 2 NIGHT — THE FLOCK — AN INTERIOR — ANOTHER IN TERIOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... GIRL ON HORSEBACK — CONVERSATION . . . . . . . . 13 4 GABRIEL’S RESOLVE — THE VISIT — THE MISTAKE . . . 20 5 DEPARTURE OF BATHSHEBA — A PASTORAL TRAG... .... . 187 34 HOME AGAIN — A TRICKSTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 35 AT AN UPPER WINDOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 36 WEALTH ... ... vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section, — that is, he went to church,... ...ing always dressed in that way. He wore a low crowned felt hat, spread out at the base by tight jamming upon the head for security in high winds, and ... ...farmer.’ ‘And the greatest of them is — well, what it is always.’ ‘Beating people down? ay, ’tis so.’ ‘O no.’ ‘What, then?’ Gabriel, perhaps a little ... ... the world — I am staying with my aunt for my bare sustenance. I am better educated than you — and I don’t love you a bit: that’s my side of the case.... ...They were not in the plantation. He called again: the valleys and farthest hills resounded as when the sailors invoked the lost Hylas on the Mysian sh... ...d that, in accordance with the an ticipations of his easy going and worse educated comrades, that day would see Boldwood the accepted husband of Miss...

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