shutup
in
the
drawing-room
with
Farfrae
;
and
then
Elizabeth-Jane
called
a
man
with
a
wheel-barrow
;
and
seeing
her
boxes
put
into
it
she
trotted
off
down
the
street
to
her
rooms
.
They
were
in
the
street
in
which
Henchard
lived
,
and
almost
opposite
his
door
.
Here
she
sat
down
and
considered
the
means
of
subsistence
.
The
little
annual
sum
settled
on
her
by
her
stepfather
would
keep
body
and
soul
together
.
A
wonderful
skill
in
netting
of
all
sorts
—
acquired
in
childhood
by
making
seines
in
Newson
's
home
—
might
serve
her
in
good
stead
;
and
her
studies
,
which
were
pursued
unremittingly
,
might
serve
her
in
still
better
.
By
this
time
the
marriage
that
had
taken
place
was
known
throughout
Casterbridge
;
had
been
discussed
noisily
on
kerbstones
,
confidentially
behind
counters
,
and
jovially
at
the
Three
Mariners
.
Whether
Farfrae
would
sell
his
business
and
set
up
for
a
gentleman
on
his
wife
's
money
,
or
whether
he
would
show
independence
enough
to
stick
to
his
trade
in
spite
of
his
brilliant
alliance
,
was
a
great
point
of
interest
.
31.
The
retort
of
the
furmity-woman
before
the
magistrates
had
spread
;
and
in
four-and-twenty
hours
there
was
not
a
person
in
Casterbridge
who
remained
unacquainted
with
the
story
of
Henchard
's
mad
freak
at
Weydon-Priors
Fair
,
long
years
before
.
The
amends
he
had
made
in
after
life
were
lost
sight
of
in
the
dramatic
glare
of
the
original
act
.
Had
the
incident
been
well
known
of
old
and
always
,
it
might
by
this
time
have
grown
to
be
lightly
regarded
as
the
rather
tall
wild
oat
,
but
well-nigh
the
single
one
,
of
a
young
man
with
whom
the
steady
and
mature
(
if
somewhat
headstrong
)
burgher
of
to-day
had
scarcely
a
point
in
common
.
But
the
act
having
lain
as
dead
and
buried
ever
since
,
the
interspace
of
years
was
unperceived
;
and
the
black
spot
of
his
youth
wore
the
aspect
of
a
recent
crime
.
Small
as
the
police-court
incident
had
been
in
itself
,
it
formed
the
edge
or
turn
in
the
incline
of
Henchard
's
fortunes
.
On
that
day
—
almost
at
that
minute
—
he
passed
the
ridge
of
prosperity
and
honour
,
and
began
to
descend
rapidly
on
the
other
side
.
It
was
strange
how
soon
he
sank
in
esteem
.
Socially
he
had
received
a
startling
fillip
downwards
;
and
,
having
already
lost
commercial
buoyancy
from
rash
transactions
,
the
velocity
of
his
descent
in
both
aspects
became
accelerated
every
hour
.
He
now
gazed
more
at
the
pavements
and
less
at
the
house-fronts
when
he
walked
about
;
more
at
the
feet
and
leggings
of
men
,
and
less
into
the
pupils
of
their
eyes
with
the
blazing
regard
which
formerly
had
made
them
blink
.
New
events
combined
to
undo
him
.
It
had
been
a
bad
year
for
others
besides
himself
,
and
the
heavy
failure
of
a
debtor
whom
he
had
trusted
generously
completed
the
overthrow
of
his
tottering
credit
.
And
now
,
in
his
desperation
,
he
failed
to
preserve
that
strict
correspondence
between
bulk
and
sample
which
is
the
soul
of
commerce
in
grain
.
For
this
,
one
of
his
men
was
mainly
to
blame
;
that
worthy
,
in
his
great
unwisdom
,
having
picked
over
the
sample
of
an
enormous
quantity
of
second-rate
corn
which
Henchard
had
in
hand
,
and
removed
the
pinched
,
blasted
,
and
smutted
grains
in
great
numbers
.
The
produce
if
honestly
offered
would
have
created
no
scandal
;
but
the
blunder
of
misrepresentation
,
coming
at
such
a
moment
,
dragged
Henchard
's
name
into
the
ditch
.
The
details
of
his
failure
were
of
the
ordinary
kind
.
One
day
Elizabeth-Jane
was
passing
the
King
's
Arms
,
when
she
saw
people
bustling
in
and
out
more
than
usual
where
there
was
no
market
.
A
bystander
informed
her
,
with
some
surprise
at
her
ignorance
,
that
it
was
a
meeting
of
the
Commissioners
under
Mr.
Henchard
's
bankruptcy
.
She
felt
quite
tearful
,
and
when
she
heard
that
he
was
present
in
the
hotel
she
wished
to
go
in
and
see
him
,
but
was
advised
not
to
intrude
that
day
.
The
room
in
which
debtor
and
creditors
had
assembled
was
a
front
one
,
and
Henchard
,
looking
out
of
the
window
,
had
caught
sight
of
Elizabeth-Jane
through
the
wire
blind
.
His
examination
had
closed
,
and
the
creditors
were
leaving
.
The
appearance
of
Elizabeth
threw
him
into
a
reverie
,
till
,
turning
his
face
from
the
window
,
and
towering
above
all
the
rest
,
he
called
their
attention
for
a
moment
more
.
His
countenance
had
somewhat
changed
from
its
flush
of
prosperity
;
the
black
hair
and
whiskers
were
the
same
as
ever
,
but
a
film
of
ash
was
over
the
rest
.
“
Gentlemen
,
”
he
said
,
“
over
and
above
the
assets
that
we
've
been
talking
about
,
and
that
appear
on
the
balance-sheet
,
there
be
these
.
It
all
belongs
to
ye
,
as
much
as
everything
else
I
've
got
,
and
I
do
n't
wish
to
keep
it
from
you
,
not
I
.
”
Saying
this
,
he
took
his
gold
watch
from
his
pocket
and
laid
it
on
the
table
;
then
his
purse
—
the
yellow
canvas
moneybag
,
such
as
was
carried
by
all
farmers
and
dealers
—
untying
it
,
and
shaking
the
money
out
upon
the
table
beside
the
watch
.
The
latter
he
drew
back
quickly
for
an
instant
,
to
remove
the
hair-guard
made
and
given
him
by
Lucetta
.
“
There
,
now
you
have
all
I
've
got
in
the
world
,
”
he
said
.
“
And
I
wish
for
your
sakes
'
twas
more
.
”
The
creditors
,
farmers
almost
to
a
man
,
looked
at
the
watch
,
and
at
the
money
,
and
into
the
street
;
when
Farmer
James
Everdene
of
Weatherbury
spoke
.
“
No
,
no
,
Henchard
,
”
he
said
warmly
.
“
We
do
n't
want
that
.
'
Tis
honourable
in
ye
;
but
keep
it
.
What
do
you
say
,
neighbours
—
do
ye
agree
?
”
“
Ay
,
sure
:
we
do
n't
wish
it
at
all
,
”
said
Grower
,
another
creditor
.
“
Let
him
keep
it
,
of
course
,
”
murmured
another
in
the
background
—
a
silent
,
reserved
young
man
named
Boldwood
;
and
the
rest
responded
unanimously
.
“
Well
,
”
said
the
senior
Commissioner
,
addressing
Henchard
,
“
though
the
case
is
a
desperate
one
,
I
am
bound
to
admit
that
I
have
never
met
a
debtor
who
behaved
more
fairly
.
I
've
proved
the
balance-sheet
to
be
as
honestly
made
out
as
it
could
possibly
be
;
we
have
had
no
trouble
;
there
have
been
no
evasions
and
no
concealments
.
The
rashness
of
dealing
which
led
to
this
unhappy
situation
is
obvious
enough
;
but
as
far
as
I
can
see
every
attempt
has
been
made
to
avoid
wronging
anybody
.
”
Henchard
was
more
affected
by
this
than
he
cared
to
let
them
perceive
,
and
he
turned
aside
to
the
window
again
.
A
general
murmur
of
agreement
followed
the
Commissioner
's
words
,
and
the
meeting
dispersed
.
When
they
were
gone
Henchard
regarded
the
watch
they
had
returned
to
him
.
“
'
Tis
n't
mine
by
rights
,
”
he
said
to
himself
.
“
Why
the
devil
did
n't
they
take
it
?
—
I
do
n't
want
what
do
n't
belong
to
me
!
”
Moved
by
a
recollection
he
took
the
watch
to
the
maker
's
just
opposite
,
sold
it
there
and
then
for
what
the
tradesman
offered
,
and
went
with
the
proceeds
to
one
among
the
smaller
of
his
creditors
,
a
cottager
of
Durnover
in
straitened
circumstances
,
to
whom
he
handed
the
money
.
When
everything
was
ticketed
that
Henchard
had
owned
,
and
the
auctions
were
in
progress
,
there
was
quite
a
sympathetic
reaction
in
the
town
,
which
till
then
for
some
time
past
had
done
nothing
but
condemn
him
.
Now
that
Henchard
's
whole
career
was
pictured
distinctly
to
his
neighbours
,
and
they
could
see
how
admirably
he
had
used
his
one
talent
of
energy
to
create
a
position
of
affluence
out
of
absolutely
nothing
—
which
was
really
all
he
could
show
when
he
came
to
the
town
as
a
journeyman
hay-trusser
,
with
his
wimble
and
knife
in
his
basket
—
they
wondered
and
regretted
his
fall
.
Try
as
she
might
,
Elizabeth
could
never
meet
with
him
.
She
believed
in
him
still
,
though
nobody
else
did
;
and
she
wanted
to
be
allowed
to
forgive
him
for
his
roughness
to
her
,
and
to
help
him
in
his
trouble
.
She
wrote
to
him
;
he
did
not
reply
.
She
then
went
to
his
house
—
the
great
house
she
had
lived
in
so
happily
for
a
time
—
with
its
front
of
dun
brick
,
vitrified
here
and
there
and
its
heavy
sash-bars
—
but
Henchard
was
to
be
found
there
no
more
.
The
ex-Mayor
had
left
the
home
of
his
prosperity
,
and
gone
into
Jopp
's
cottage
by
the
Priory
Mill
—
the
sad
purlieu
to
which
he
had
wandered
on
the
night
of
his
discovery
that
she
was
not
his
daughter
.
Thither
she
went
.
Elizabeth
thought
it
odd
that
he
had
fixed
on
this
spot
to
retire
to
,
but
assumed
that
necessity
had
no
choice
.
Trees
which
seemed
old
enough
to
have
been
planted
by
the
friars
still
stood
around
,
and
the
back
hatch
of
the
original
mill
yet
formed
a
cascade
which
had
raised
its
terrific
roar
for
centuries
.
The
cottage
itself
was
built
of
old
stones
from
the
long
dismantled
Priory
,
scraps
of
tracery
,
moulded
window-jambs
,
and
arch-labels
,
being
mixed
in
with
the
rubble
of
the
walls
.
In
this
cottage
he
occupied
a
couple
of
rooms
,
Jopp
,
whom
Henchard
had
employed
,
abused
,
cajoled
,
and
dismissed
by
turns
,
being
the
householder
.
But
even
here
her
stepfather
could
not
be
seen
.
“
Not
by
his
daughter
?
”
pleaded
Elizabeth
.
“
By
nobody
—
at
present
:
that
's
his
order
,
”
she
was
informed
.
Afterwards
she
was
passing
by
the
corn-stores
and
hay-barns
which
had
been
the
headquarters
of
his
business
.
She
knew
that
he
ruled
there
no
longer
;
but
it
was
with
amazement
that
she
regarded
the
familiar
gateway
.
A
smear
of
decisive
lead-coloured
paint
had
been
laid
on
to
obliterate
Henchard
's
name
,
though
its
letters
dimly
loomed
through
like
ships
in
a
fog
.
Over
these
,
in
fresh
white
,
spread
the
name
of
Farfrae
.
Abel
Whittle
was
edging
his
skeleton
in
at
the
wicket
,
and
she
said
,
“
Mr.
Farfrae
is
master
here
?
”
“
Yaas
,
Miss
Henchet
,
”
he
said
,
“
Mr.
Farfrae
have
bought
the
concern
and
all
of
we
work-folk
with
it
;
and
'
tis
better
for
us
than
'
twas
—
though
I
should
n't
say
that
to
you
as
a
daughter-law
.
We
work
harder
,
but
we
bai
n't
made
afeard
now
.
It
was
fear
made
my
few
poor
hairs
so
thin
!
No
busting
out
,
no
slamming
of
doors
,
no
meddling
with
yer
eternal
soul
and
all
that
;
and
though
'
tis
a
shilling
a
week
less
I
'm
the
richer
man
;
for
what
's
all
the
world
if
yer
mind
is
always
in
a
larry
,
Miss
Henchet
?
”
The
intelligence
was
in
a
general
sense
true
;
and
Henchard
's
stores
,
which
had
remained
in
a
paralyzed
condition
during
the
settlement
of
his
bankruptcy
,
were
stirred
into
activity
again
when
the
new
tenant
had
possession
.
Thenceforward
the
full
sacks
,
looped
with
the
shining
chain
,
went
scurrying
up
and
down
under
the
cat-head
,
hairy
arms
were
thrust
out
from
the
different
door-ways
,
and
the
grain
was
hauled
in
;
trusses
of
hay
were
tossed
anew
in
and
out
of
the
barns
,
and
the
wimbles
creaked
;
while
the
scales
and
steel-yards
began
to
be
busy
where
guess-work
had
formerly
been
the
rule
.
32.
Two
bridges
stood
near
the
lower
part
of
Casterbridge
town
.
The
first
,
of
weather-stained
brick
,
was
immediately
at
the
end
of
High
Street
,
where
a
diverging
branch
from
that
thoroughfare
ran
round
to
the
low-lying
Durnover
lanes
;
so
that
the
precincts
of
the
bridge
formed
the
merging
point
of
respectability
and
indigence
.
The
second
bridge
,
of
stone
,
was
further
out
on
the
highway
—
in
fact
,
fairly
in
the
meadows
,
though
still
within
the
town
boundary
.
These
bridges
had
speaking
countenances
.
Every
projection
in
each
was
worn
down
to
obtuseness
,
partly
by
weather
,
more
by
friction
from
generations
of
loungers
,
whose
toes
and
heels
had
from
year
to
year
made
restless
movements
against
these
parapets
,
as
they
had
stood
there
meditating
on
the
aspect
of
affairs
.
In
the
case
of
the
more
friable
bricks
and
stones
even
the
flat
faces
were
worn
into
hollows
by
the
same
mixed
mechanism
.
The
masonry
of
the
top
was
clamped
with
iron
at
each
joint
;
since
it
had
been
no
uncommon
thing
for
desperate
men
to
wrench
the
coping
off
and
throw
it
down
the
river
,
in
reckless
defiance
of
the
magistrates
.
For
to
this
pair
of
bridges
gravitated
all
the
failures
of
the
town
;
those
who
had
failed
in
business
,
in
love
,
in
sobriety
,
in
crime
.
Why
the
unhappy
hereabout
usually
chose
the
bridges
for
their
meditations
in
preference
to
a
railing
,
a
gate
,
or
a
stile
,
was
not
so
clear
.
There
was
a
marked
difference
of
quality
between
the
personages
who
haunted
the
near
bridge
of
brick
and
the
personages
who
haunted
the
far
one
of
stone
.
Those
of
lowest
character
preferred
the
former
,
adjoining
the
town
;
they
did
not
mind
the
glare
of
the
public
eye
.
They
had
been
of
comparatively
no
account
during
their
successes
;
and
though
they
might
feel
dispirited
,
they
had
no
particular
sense
of
shame
in
their
ruin
.
Their
hands
were
mostly
kept
in
their
pockets
;
they
wore
a
leather
strap
round
their
hips
or
knees
,
and
boots
that
required
a
great
deal
of
lacing
,
but
seemed
never
to
get
any
.
Instead
of
sighing
at
their
adversities
they
spat
,
and
instead
of
saying
the
iron
had
entered
into
their
souls
they
said
they
were
down
on
their
luck
.
Jopp
in
his
time
of
distress
had
often
stood
here
;
so
had
Mother
Cuxsom
,
Christopher
Coney
,
and
poor
Abel
Whittle
.
The
miserables
who
would
pause
on
the
remoter
bridge
were
of
a
politer
stamp
.
They
included
bankrupts
,
hypochondriacs
,
persons
who
were
what
is
called
“
out
of
a
situation
”
from
fault
or
lucklessness
,
the
inefficient
of
the
professional
class
—
shabby-genteel
men
,
who
did
not
know
how
to
get
rid
of
the
weary
time
between
breakfast
and
dinner
,
and
the
yet
more
weary
time
between
dinner
and
dark
.
The
eye
of
this
species
were
mostly
directed
over
the
parapet
upon
the
running
water
below
.
A
man
seen
there
looking
thus
fixedly
into
the
river
was
pretty
sure
to
be
one
whom
the
world
did
not
treat
kindly
for
some
reason
or
other
.
While
one
in
straits
on
the
townward
bridge
did
not
mind
who
saw
him
so
,
and
kept
his
back
to
the
parapet
to
survey
the
passers-by
,
one
in
straits
on
this
never
faced
the
road
,
never
turned
his
head
at
coming
footsteps
,
but
,
sensitive
to
his
own
condition
,
watched
the
current
whenever
a
stranger
approached
,
as
if
some
strange
fish
interested
him
,
though
every
finned
thing
had
been
poached
out
of
the
river
years
before
.
There
and
thus
they
would
muse
;
if
their
grief
were
the
grief
of
oppression
they
would
wish
themselves
kings
;
if
their
grief
were
poverty
,
wish
themselves
millionaires
;
if
sin
,
they
would
wish
they
were
saints
or
angels
;
if
despised
love
,
that
they
were
some
much-courted
Adonis
of
county
fame
.
Some
had
been
known
to
stand
and
think
so
long
with
this
fixed
gaze
downward
that
eventually
they
had
allowed
their
poor
carcases
to
follow
that
gaze
;
and
they
were
discovered
the
next
morning
out
of
reach
of
their
troubles
,
either
here
or
in
the
deep
pool
called
Blackwater
,
a
little
higher
up
the
river
.
To
this
bridge
came
Henchard
,
as
other
unfortunates
had
come
before
him
,
his
way
thither
being
by
the
riverside
path
on
the
chilly
edge
of
the
town
.
Here
he
was
standing
one
windy
afternoon
when
Durnover
church
clock
struck
five
.
While
the
gusts
were
bringing
the
notes
to
his
ears
across
the
damp
intervening
flat
a
man
passed
behind
him
and
greeted
Henchard
by
name
.
Henchard
turned
slightly
and
saw
that
the
corner
was
Jopp
,
his
old
foreman
,
now
employed
elsewhere
,
to
whom
,
though
he
hated
him
,
he
had
gone
for
lodgings
because
Jopp
was
the
one
man
in
Casterbridge
whose
observation
and
opinion
the
fallen
corn-merchant
despised
to
the
point
of
indifference
.
Henchard
returned
him
a
scarcely
perceptible
nod
,
and
Jopp
stopped
.
“
He
and
she
are
gone
into
their
new
house
to-day
,
”
said
Jopp
.
“
Oh
,
”
said
Henchard
absently
.
“
Which
house
is
that
?
”
“
Your
old
one
.
”
“
Gone
into
my
house
?
”
And
starting
up
Henchard
added
,
“
MY
house
of
all
others
in
the
town
!
”
“
Well
,
as
somebody
was
sure
to
live
there
,
and
you
could
n't
,
it
can
do
'
ee
no
harm
that
he
's
the
man
.
”
It
was
quite
true
:
he
felt
that
it
was
doing
him
no
harm
.
Farfrae
,
who
had
already
taken
the
yards
and
stores
,
had
acquired
possession
of
the
house
for
the
obvious
convenience
of
its
contiguity
.
And
yet
this
act
of
his
taking
up
residence
within
those
roomy
chambers
while
he
,
their
former
tenant
,
lived
in
a
cottage
,
galled
Henchard
indescribably
.
Jopp
continued
:
“
And
you
heard
of
that
fellow
who
bought
all
the
best
furniture
at
your
sale
?
He
was
bidding
for
no
other
than
Farfrae
all
the
while
!
It
has
never
been
moved
out
of
the
house
,
as
he
'd
already
got
the
lease
.
”
“
My
furniture
too
!
Surely
he
'll
buy
my
body
and
soul
likewise
!
”
“
There
's
no
saying
he
wo
n't
,
if
you
be
willing
to
sell
.
”
And
having
planted
these
wounds
in
the
heart
of
his
once
imperious
master
Jopp
went
on
his
way
;
while
Henchard
stared
and
stared
into
the
racing
river
till
the
bridge
seemed
moving
backward
with
him
.
The
low
land
grew
blacker
,
and
the
sky
a
deeper
grey
,
When
the
landscape
looked
like
a
picture
blotted
in
with
ink
,
another
traveller
approached
the
great
stone
bridge
.
He
was
driving
a
gig
,
his
direction
being
also
townwards
.
On
the
round
of
the
middle
of
the
arch
the
gig
stopped
.
“
Mr.
Henchard
?
”
came
from
it
in
the
voice
of
Farfrae
.
Henchard
turned
his
face
.
Finding
that
he
had
guessed
rightly
Farfrae
told
the
man
who
accompanied
him
to
drive
home
;
while
he
alighted
and
went
up
to
his
former
friend
.
“
I
have
heard
that
you
think
of
emigrating
,
Mr.
Henchard
?
”
he
said
.
“
Is
it
true
?
I
have
a
real
reason
for
asking
.
”
Henchard
withheld
his
answer
for
several
instants
,
and
then
said
,
“
Yes
;
it
is
true
.
I
am
going
where
you
were
going
to
a
few
years
ago
,
when
I
prevented
you
and
got
you
to
bide
here
.
'
Tis
turn
and
turn
about
,
is
n't
it
!
Do
ye
mind
how
we
stood
like
this
in
the
Chalk
Walk
when
I
persuaded
'
ee
to
stay
?
You
then
stood
without
a
chattel
to
your
name
,
and
I
was
the
master
of
the
house
in
Corn
Street
.
But
now
I
stand
without
a
stick
or
a
rag
,
and
the
master
of
that
house
is
you
.
”
“
Yes
,
yes
;
that
's
so
!
It
's
the
way
o
'
the
warrld
,
”
said
Farfrae
.
“
Ha
,
ha
,
true
!
”
cried
Henchard
,
throwing
himself
into
a
mood
of
jocularity
.
“
Up
and
down
!
I
'm
used
to
it
.
What
's
the
odds
after
all
!
”
“
Now
listen
to
me
,
if
it
's
no
taking
up
your
time
,
”
said
Farfrae
,
“
just
as
I
listened
to
you
.
Do
n't
go
.
Stay
at
home
.
”
“
But
I
can
do
nothing
else
,
man
!
”
said
Henchard
scornfully
.
“
The
little
money
I
have
will
just
keep
body
and
soul
together
for
a
few
weeks
,
and
no
more
.
I
have
not
felt
inclined
to
go
back
to
journey-work
yet
;
but
I
ca
n't
stay
doing
nothing
,
and
my
best
chance
is
elsewhere
.
”
“
No
;
but
what
I
propose
is
this
—
if
ye
will
listen
.
Come
and
live
in
your
old
house
.
We
can
spare
some
rooms
very
well
—
I
am
sure
my
wife
would
not
mind
it
at
all
—
until
there
's
an
opening
for
ye
.
”
Henchard
started
.
Probably
the
picture
drawn
by
the
unsuspecting
Donald
of
himself
under
the
same
roof
with
Lucetta
was
too
striking
to
be
received
with
equanimity
.
“
No
,
no
,
”
he
said
gruffly
;
“
we
should
quarrel
.
”
“
You
should
hae
a
part
to
yourself
,
”
said
Farfrae
;
“
and
nobody
to
interfere
wi
'
you
.
It
will
be
a
deal
healthier
than
down
there
by
the
river
where
you
live
now
.
”
Still
Henchard
refused
.
“
You
do
n't
know
what
you
ask
,
”
he
said
.
“
However
,
I
can
do
no
less
than
thank
'
ee
.
”
They
walked
into
the
town
together
side
by
side
,
as
they
had
done
when
Henchard
persuaded
the
young
Scotchman
to
remain
.
“
Will
you
come
in
and
have
some
supper
?
”
said
Farfrae
when
they
reached
the
middle
of
the
town
,
where
their
paths
diverged
right
and
left
.
“
No
,
no.
”
“
By-the-bye
,
I
had
nearly
forgot
.
I
bought
a
good
deal
of
your
furniture
.
“
So
I
have
heard
.
”
“
Well
,
it
was
no
that
I
wanted
it
so
very
much
for
myself
;
but
I
wish
ye
to
pick
out
all
that
you
care
to
have
—
such
things
as
may
be
endeared
to
ye
by
associations
,
or
particularly
suited
to
your
use
.
And
take
them
to
your
own
house
—
it
will
not
be
depriving
me
,
we
can
do
with
less
very
well
,
and
I
will
have
plenty
of
opportunities
of
getting
more
.
”
“
What
—
give
it
to
me
for
nothing
?
”
said
Henchard
.
“
But
you
paid
the
creditors
for
it
!
”
“
Ah
,
yes
;
but
maybe
it
's
worth
more
to
you
than
it
is
to
me
.
”
Henchard
was
a
little
moved
.
“
I
—
sometimes
think
I
've
wronged
'
ee
!
”
he
said
,
in
tones
which
showed
the
disquietude
that
the
night
shades
hid
in
his
face
.
He
shook
Farfrae
abruptly
by
the
hand
,
and
hastened
away
as
if
unwilling
to
betray
himself
further
.
Farfrae
saw
him
turn
through
the
thoroughfare
into
Bull
Stake
and
vanish
down
towards
the
Priory
Mill
.
Meanwhile
Elizabeth-Jane
,
in
an
upper
room
no
larger
than
the
Prophet
's
chamber
,
and
with
the
silk
attire
of
her
palmy
days
packed
away
in
a
box
,
was
netting
with
great
industry
between
the
hours
which
she
devoted
to
studying
such
books
as
she
could
get
hold
of
.
Her
lodgings
being
nearly
opposite
her
stepfather
's
former
residence
,
now
Farfrae
's
,
she
could
see
Donald
and
Lucetta
speeding
in
and
out
of
their
door
with
all
the
bounding
enthusiasm
of
their
situation
.
She
avoided
looking
that
way
as
much
as
possible
,
but
it
was
hardly
in
human
nature
to
keep
the
eyes
averted
when
the
door
slammed
.
While
living
on
thus
quietly
she
heard
the
news
that
Henchard
had
caught
cold
and
was
confined
to
his
room
—
possibly
a
result
of
standing
about
the
meads
in
damp
weather
.
She
went
off
to
his
house
at
once
.
This
time
she
was
determined
not
to
be
denied
admittance
,
and
made
her
way
upstairs
.
He
was
sitting
up
in
the
bed
with
a
greatcoat
round
him
,
and
at
first
resented
her
intrusion
.
“
Go
away
—
go
away
,
”
he
said
.
“
I
do
n't
like
to
see
'
ee
!
”
“
But
,
father
—
”
“
I
do
n't
like
to
see
'
ee
,
”
he
repeated
.
However
,
the
ice
was
broken
,
and
she
remained
.
She
made
the
room
more
comfortable
,
gave
directions
to
the
people
below
,
and
by
the
time
she
went
away
had
reconciled
her
stepfather
to
her
visiting
him
.
The
effect
,
either
of
her
ministrations
or
of
her
mere
presence
,
was
a
rapid
recovery
.
He
soon
was
well
enough
to
go
out
;
and
now
things
seemed
to
wear
a
new
colour
in
his
eyes
.
He
no
longer
thought
of
emigration
,
and
thought
more
of
Elizabeth
.
The
having
nothing
to
do
made
him
more
dreary
than
any
other
circumstance
;
and
one
day
,
with
better
views
of
Farfrae
than
he
had
held
for
some
time
,
and
a
sense
that
honest
work
was
not
a
thing
to
be
ashamed
of
,
he
stoically
went
down
to
Farfrae
's
yard
and
asked
to
be
taken
on
as
a
journeyman
hay-trusser
.
He
was
engaged
at
once
.
This
hiring
of
Henchard
was
done
through
a
foreman
,
Farfrae
feeling
that
it
was
undesirable
to
come
personally
in
contact
with
the
ex-corn-factor
more
than
was
absolutely
necessary
.
While
anxious
to
help
him
he
was
well
aware
by
this
time
of
his
uncertain
temper
,
and
thought
reserved
relations
best
.
For
the
same
reason
his
orders
to
Henchard
to
proceed
to
this
and
that
country
farm
trussing
in
the
usual
way
were
always
given
through
a
third
person
.
For
a
time
these
arrangements
worked
well
,
it
being
the
custom
to
truss
in
the
respective
stack-yards
,
before
bringing
it
away
,
the
hay
bought
at
the
different
farms
about
the
neighbourhood
;
so
that
Henchard
was
often
absent
at
such
places
the
whole
week
long
.
When
this
was
all
done
,
and
Henchard
had
become
in
a
measure
broken
in
,
he
came
to
work
daily
on
the
home
premises
like
the
rest
.
And
thus
the
once
flourishing
merchant
and
Mayor
and
what
not
stood
as
a
day-labourer
in
the
barns
and
granaries
he
formerly
had
owned
.
“
I
have
worked
as
a
journeyman
before
now
,
ha'
n't
I
?
”
he
would
say
in
his
defiant
way
;
“
and
why
should
n't
I
do
it
again
?
”
But
he
looked
a
far
different
journeyman
from
the
one
he
had
been
in
his
earlier
days
.
Then
he
had
worn
clean
,
suitable
clothes
,
light
and
cheerful
in
hue
;
leggings
yellow
as
marigolds
,
corduroys
immaculate
as
new
flax
,
and
a
neckerchief
like
a
flower-garden
.
Now
he
wore
the
remains
of
an
old
blue
cloth
suit
of
his
gentlemanly
times
,
a
rusty
silk
hat
,
and
a
once
black
satin
stock
,
soiled
and
shabby
.
Clad
thus
he
went
to
and
fro
,
still
comparatively
an
active
man
—
for
he
was
not
much
over
forty
—
and
saw
with
the
other
men
in
the
yard
Donald
Farfrae
going
in
and
out
the
green
door
that
led
to
the
garden
,
and
the
big
house
,
and
Lucetta
.
At
the
beginning
of
the
winter
it
was
rumoured
about
Casterbridge
that
Mr.
Farfrae
,
already
in
the
Town
Council
,
was
to
be
proposed
for
Mayor
in
a
year
or
two
.
“
Yes
,
she
was
wise
,
she
was
wise
in
her
generation
!
”
said
Henchard
to
himself
when
he
heard
of
this
one
day
on
his
way
to
Farfrae
's
hay-barn
.
He
thought
it
over
as
he
wimbled
his
bonds
,
and
the
piece
of
news
acted
as
a
reviviscent
breath
to
that
old
view
of
his
—
of
Donald
Farfrae
as
his
triumphant
rival
who
rode
rough-shod
over
him
.
“
A
fellow
of
his
age
going
to
be
Mayor
,
indeed
!
”
he
murmured
with
a
corner-drawn
smile
on
his
mouth
.
“
But
'
tis
her
money
that
floats
en
upward
.
Ha-ha
—
how
cust
odd
it
is
!
Here
be
I
,
his
former
master
,
working
for
him
as
man
,
and
he
the
man
standing
as
master
,
with
my
house
and
my
furniture
and
my
what-you-may-call
wife
all
his
own
.
”
He
repeated
these
things
a
hundred
times
a
day
.
During
the
whole
period
of
his
acquaintance
with
Lucetta
he
had
never
wished
to
claim
her
as
his
own
so
desperately
as
he
now
regretted
her
loss
.
It
was
no
mercenary
hankering
after
her
fortune
that
moved
him
,
though
that
fortune
had
been
the
means
of
making
her
so
much
the
more
desired
by
giving
her
the
air
of
independence
and
sauciness
which
attracts
men
of
his
composition
.
It
had
given
her
servants
,
house
,
and
fine
clothing
—
a
setting
that
invested
Lucetta
with
a
startling
novelty
in
the
eyes
of
him
who
had
known
her
in
her
narrow
days
.
He
accordingly
lapsed
into
moodiness
,
and
at
every
allusion
to
the
possibility
of
Farfrae
's
near
election
to
the
municipal
chair
his
former
hatred
of
the
Scotchman
returned
.
Concurrently
with
this
he
underwent
a
moral
change
.
It
resulted
in
his
significantly
saying
every
now
and
then
,
in
tones
of
recklessness
,
“
Only
a
fortnight
more
!
”
—
“
Only
a
dozen
days
!
”
and
so
forth
,
lessening
his
figures
day
by
day
.
“
Why
d'ye
say
only
a
dozen
days
?
”
asked
Solomon
Longways
as
he
worked
beside
Henchard
in
the
granary
weighing
oats
.
“
Because
in
twelve
days
I
shall
be
released
from
my
oath
.
”
“
What
oath
?
”
“
The
oath
to
drink
no
spirituous
liquid
.
In
twelve
days
it
will
be
twenty-one
years
since
I
swore
it
,
and
then
I
mean
to
enjoy
myself
,
please
God
!
”
Elizabeth-Jane
sat
at
her
window
one
Sunday
,
and
while
there
she
heard
in
the
street
below
a
conversation
which
introduced
Henchard
's
name
.
She
was
wondering
what
was
the
matter
,
when
a
third
person
who
was
passing
by
asked
the
question
in
her
mind
.
“
Michael
Henchard
have
busted
out
drinking
after
taking
nothing
for
twenty-one
years
!
”
Elizabeth-Jane
jumped
up
,
put
on
her
things
,
and
went
out
.
33.
At
this
date
there
prevailed
in
Casterbridge
a
convivial
custom
—
scarcely
recognized
as
such
,
yet
none
the
less
established
.
On
the
afternoon
of
every
Sunday
a
large
contingent
of
the
Casterbridge
journeymen
—
steady
churchgoers
and
sedate
characters
—
having
attended
service
,
filed
from
the
church
doors
across
the
way
to
the
Three
Mariners
Inn
.
The
rear
was
usually
brought
up
by
the
choir
,
with
their
bass-viols
,
fiddles
,
and
flutes
under
their
arms
.
The
great
point
,
the
point
of
honour
,
on
these
sacred
occasions
was
for
each
man
to
strictly
limit
himself
to
half-a-pint
of
liquor
.
This
scrupulosity
was
so
well
understood
by
the
landlord
that
the
whole
company
was
served
in
cups
of
that
measure
.
They
were
all
exactly
alike
—
straight-sided
,
with
two
leafless
lime-trees
done
in
eel-brown
on
the
sides
—
one
towards
the
drinker
's
lips
,
the
other
confronting
his
comrade
.
To
wonder
how
many
of
these
cups
the
landlord
possessed
altogether
was
a
favourite
exercise
of
children
in
the
marvellous
.
Forty
at
least
might
have
been
seen
at
these
times
in
the
large
room
,
forming
a
ring
round
the
margin
of
the
great
sixteen-legged
oak
table
,
like
the
monolithic
circle
of
Stonehenge
in
its
pristine
days
.
Outside
and
above
the
forty
cups
came
a
circle
of
forty
smoke-jets
from
forty
clay
pipes
;
outside
the
pipes
the
countenances
of
the
forty
church-goers
,
supported
at
the
back
by
a
circle
of
forty
chairs
.
The
conversation
was
not
the
conversation
of
week-days
,
but
a
thing
altogether
finer
in
point
and
higher
in
tone
.
They
invariably
discussed
the
sermon
,
dissecting
it
,
weighing
it
,
as
above
or
below
the
average
—
the
general
tendency
being
to
regard
it
as
a
scientific
feat
or
performance
which
had
no
relation
to
their
own
lives
,
except
as
between
critics
and
the
thing
criticized
.
The
bass-viol
player
and
the
clerk
usually
spoke
with
more
authority
than
the
rest
on
account
of
their
official
connection
with
the
preacher
.
Now
the
Three
Mariners
was
the
inn
chosen
by
Henchard
as
the
place
for
closing
his
long
term
of
dramless
years
.
He
had
so
timed
his
entry
as
to
be
well
established
in
the
large
room
by
the
time
the
forty
church-goers
entered
to
their
customary
cups
.
The
flush
upon
his
face
proclaimed
at
once
that
the
vow
of
twenty-one
years
had
lapsed
,
and
the
era
of
recklessness
begun
anew
.
He
was
seated
on
a
small
table
,
drawn
up
to
the
side
of
the
massive
oak
board
reserved
for
the
churchmen
,
a
few
of
whom
nodded
to
him
as
they
took
their
places
and
said
,
“
How
be
ye
,
Mr.
Henchard
?
Quite
a
stranger
here
.
”
Henchard
did
not
take
the
trouble
to
reply
for
a
few
moments
,
and
his
eyes
rested
on
his
stretched-out
legs
and
boots
.
“
Yes
,
”
he
said
at
length
;
“
that
's
true
.
I
've
been
down
in
spirit
for
weeks
;
some
of
ye
know
the
cause
.
I
am
better
now
,
but
not
quite
serene
.
I
want
you
fellows
of
the
choir
to
strike
up
a
tune
;
and
what
with
that
and
this
brew
of
Stannidge
's
,
I
am
in
hopes
of
getting
altogether
out
of
my
minor
key
.
”
“
With
all
my
heart
,
”
said
the
first
fiddle
.
“
We
've
let
back
our
strings
,
that
's
true
,
but
we
can
soon
pull
'
em
up
again
.
Sound
A
,
neighbours
,
and
give
the
man
a
stave
.
”
“
I
do
n't
care
a
curse
what
the
words
be
,
”
said
Henchard
.
“
Hymns
,
ballets
,
or
rantipole
rubbish
;
the
Rogue
's
March
or
the
cherubim
's
warble
—
'
tis
all
the
same
to
me
if
'
tis
good
harmony
,
and
well
put
out
.
”
“
Well
—
heh
,
heh
—
it
may
be
we
can
do
that
,
and
not
a
man
among
us
that
have
sat
in
the
gallery
less
than
twenty
year
,
”
said
the
leader
of
the
band
.
“
As
'
tis
Sunday
,
neighbours
,
suppose
we
raise
the
Fourth
Psa'am
,
to
Samuel
Wakely
's
tune
,
as
improved
by
me
?
”
“
Hang
Samuel
Wakely
's
tune
,
as
improved
by
thee
!
”
said
Henchard
.
“
Chuck
across
one
of
your
psalters
—
old
Wiltshire
is
the
only
tune
worth
singing
—
the
psalm-tune
that
would
make
my
blood
ebb
and
flow
like
the
sea
when
I
was
a
steady
chap
.
I
'll
find
some
words
to
fit
en
.
”
He
took
one
of
the
psalters
and
began
turning
over
the
leaves
.
Chancing
to
look
out
of
the
window
at
that
moment
he
saw
a
flock
of
people
passing
by
,
and
perceived
them
to
be
the
congregation
of
the
upper
church
,
now
just
dismissed
,
their
sermon
having
been
a
longer
one
than
that
the
lower
parish
was
favoured
with
.
Among
the
rest
of
the
leading
inhabitants
walked
Mr.
Councillor
Farfrae
with
Lucetta
upon
his
arm
,
the
observed
and
imitated
of
all
the
smaller
tradesmen
's
womankind
.
Henchard
's
mouth
changed
a
little
,
and
he
continued
to
turn
over
the
leaves
.
“
Now
then
,
”
he
said
,
“
Psalm
the
Hundred-and-Ninth
,
to
the
tune
of
Wiltshire
:
verses
ten
to
fifteen
.
I
gi'e
ye
the
words
:
“
His
seed
shall
orphans
be
,
his
wife
A
widow
plunged
in
grief
;
His
vagrant
children
beg
their
bread
Where
none
can
give
relief
.
His
ill-got
riches
shall
be
made
To
usurers
a
prey
;
The
fruit
of
all
his
toil
shall
be
By
strangers
borne
away
.
None
shall
be
found
that
to
his
wants
Their
mercy
will
extend
,
Or
to
his
helpless
orphan
seed
The
least
assistance
lend
.
A
swift
destruction
soon
shall
seize
On
his
unhappy
race
;
And
the
next
age
his
hated
name
Shall
utterly
deface
.
”
“
I
know
the
Psa'am
—
I
know
the
Psa'am
!
”
said
the
leader
hastily
;
“
but
I
would
as
lief
not
sing
it
.
'
Twas
n't
made
for
singing
.
We
chose
it
once
when
the
gipsy
stole
the
pa'son
's
mare
,
thinking
to
please
him
,
but
pa'son
were
quite
upset
.
Whatever
Servant
David
were
thinking
about
when
he
made
a
Psalm
that
nobody
can
sing
without
disgracing
himself
,
I
ca
n't
fathom
!
Now
then
,
the
Fourth
Psalm
,
to
Samuel
Wakely
's
tune
,
as
improved
by
me
.
”
“
'
Od
seize
your
sauce
—
I
tell
ye
to
sing
the
Hundred-and-Ninth
to
Wiltshire
,
and
sing
it
you
shall
!
”
roared
Henchard
.
“
Not
a
single
one
of
all
the
droning
crew
of
ye
goes
out
of
this
room
till
that
Psalm
is
sung
!
”
He
slipped
off
the
table
,
seized
the
poker
,
and
going
to
the
door
placed
his
back
against
it
.
“
Now
then
,
go
ahead
,
if
you
do
n't
wish
to
have
your
cust
pates
broke
!
”
“
Do
n't
'
ee
,
don't'ee
take
on
so
!
—
As
'
tis
the
Sabbath-day
,
and
'
tis
Servant
David
's
words
and
not
ours
,
perhaps
we
do
n't
mind
for
once
,
hey
?
”
said
one
of
the
terrified
choir
,
looking
round
upon
the
rest
.
So
the
instruments
were
tuned
and
the
comminatory
verses
sung
.
“
Thank
ye
,
thank
ye
,
”
said
Henchard
in
a
softened
voice
,
his
eyes
growing
downcast
,
and
his
manner
that
of
a
man
much
moved
by
the
strains
.
“
Do
n't
you
blame
David
,
”
he
went
on
in
low
tones
,
shaking
his
head
without
raising
his
eyes
.
“
He
knew
what
he
was
about
when
he
wrote
that
!
...
If
I
could
afford
it
,
be
hanged
if
I
would
n't
keep
a
church
choir
at
my
own
expense
to
play
and
sing
to
me
at
these
low
,
dark
times
of
my
life
.
But
the
bitter
thing
is
,
that
when
I
was
rich
I
did
n't
need
what
I
could
have
,
and
now
I
be
poor
I
ca
n't
have
what
I
need
!
”
While
they
paused
,
Lucetta
and
Farfrae
passed
again
,
this
time
homeward
,
it
being
their
custom
to
take
,
like
others
,
a
short
walk
out
on
the
highway
and
back
,
between
church
and
tea-time
.
“
There
's
the
man
we
've
been
singing
about
,
”
said
Henchard
.
The
players
and
singers
turned
their
heads
and
saw
his
meaning
.
“
Heaven
forbid
!
”
said
the
bass-player
.
“
'
Tis
the
man
,
”
repeated
Henchard
doggedly
.
“
Then
if
I
'd
known
,
”
said
the
performer
on
the
clarionet
solemnly
,
“
that
'
twas
meant
for
a
living
man
,
nothing
should
have
drawn
out
of
my
wynd-pipe
the
breath
for
that
Psalm
,
so
help
me
!
”
“
Nor
from
mine
,
”
said
the
first
singer
.
“
But
,
thought
I
,
as
it
was
made
so
long
ago
perhaps
there
is
n't
much
in
it
,
so
I
'll
oblige
a
neighbour
;
for
there
's
nothing
to
be
said
against
the
tune
.
”
“
Ah
,
my
boys
,
you
've
sung
it
,
”
said
Henchard
triumphantly
.
“
As
for
him
,
it
was
partly
by
his
songs
that
he
got
over
me
,
and
heaved
me
out
...
.I
could
double
him
up
like
that
—
and
yet
I
do
n't
.
”
He
laid
the
poker
across
his
knee
,
bent
it
as
if
it
were
a
twig
,
flung
it
down
,
and
came
away
from
the
door
.
It
was
at
this
time
that
Elizabeth-Jane
,
having
heard
where
her
stepfather
was
,
entered
the
room
with
a
pale
and
agonized
countenance
.
The
choir
and
the
rest
of
the
company
moved
off
,
in
accordance
with
their
half-pint
regulation
.
Elizabeth-Jane
went
up
to
Henchard
,
and
entreated
him
to
accompany
her
home
.
By
this
hour
the
volcanic
fires
of
his
nature
had
burnt
down
,
and
having
drunk
no
great
quantity
as
yet
he
was
inclined
to
acquiesce
.
She
took
his
arm
,
and
together
they
went
on
.
Henchard
walked
blankly
,
like
a
blind
man
,
repeating
to
himself
the
last
words
of
the
singers
—
“
And
the
next
age
his
hated
name
Shall
utterly
deface
.
”
At
length
he
said
to
her
,
“
I
am
a
man
to
my
word
.
I
have
kept
my
oath
for
twenty-one
years
;
and
now
I
can
drink
with
a
good
conscience
...
.If
I
do
n't
do
for
him
—
well
,
I
am
a
fearful
practical
joker
when
I
choose
!
He
has
taken
away
everything
from
me
,
and
by
heavens
,
if
I
meet
him
I
wo
n't
answer
for
my
deeds
!
”
These
half-uttered
words
alarmed
Elizabeth
—
all
the
more
by
reason
of
the
still
determination
of
Henchard
's
mien
.
“
What
will
you
do
?
”
she
asked
cautiously
,
while
trembling
with
disquietude
,
and
guessing
Henchard
's
allusion
only
too
well
.
Henchard
did
not
answer
,
and
they
went
on
till
they
had
reached
his
cottage
.
“
May
I
come
in
?
”
she
said
.
“
No
,
no
;
not
to-day
,
”
said
Henchard
;
and
she
went
away
;
feeling
that
to
caution
Farfrae
was
almost
her
duty
,
as
it
was
certainly
her
strong
desire
.
As
on
the
Sunday
,
so
on
the
week-days
,
Farfrae
and
Lucetta
might
have
been
seen
flitting
about
the
town
like
two
butterflies
—
or
rather
like
a
bee
and
a
butterfly
in
league
for
life
.
She
seemed
to
take
no
pleasure
in
going
anywhere
except
in
her
husband
's
company
;
and
hence
when
business
would
not
permit
him
to
waste
an
afternoon
she
remained
indoors
waiting
for
the
time
to
pass
till
his
return
,
her
face
being
visible
to
Elizabeth-Jane
from
her
window
aloft
.
The
latter
,
however
,
did
not
say
to
herself
that
Farfrae
should
be
thankful
for
such
devotion
,
but
,
full
of
her
reading
,
she
cited
Rosalind
's
exclamation
:
“
Mistress
,
know
yourself
;
down
on
your
knees
and
thank
Heaven
fasting
for
a
good
man
's
love
.
”
She
kept
her
eye
upon
Henchard
also
.
One
day
he
answered
her
inquiry
for
his
health
by
saying
that
he
could
not
endure
Abel
Whittle
's
pitying
eyes
upon
him
while
they
worked
together
in
the
yard
.
“
He
is
such
a
fool
,
”
said
Henchard
,
“
that
he
can
never
get
out
of
his
mind
the
time
when
I
was
master
there
.
”
“
I
'll
come
and
wimble
for
you
instead
of
him
,
if
you
will
allow
me
,
”
said
she
.
Her
motive
on
going
to
the
yard
was
to
get
an
opportunity
of
observing
the
general
position
of
affairs
on
Farfrae
's
premises
now
that
her
stepfather
was
a
workman
there
.
Henchard
's
threats
had
alarmed
her
so
much
that
she
wished
to
see
his
behaviour
when
the
two
were
face
to
face
.
For
two
or
three
days
after
her
arrival
Donald
did
not
make
any
appearance
.
Then
one
afternoon
the
green
door
opened
,
and
through
came
,
first
Farfrae
,
and
at
his
heels
Lucetta
.
Donald
brought
his
wife
forward
without
hesitation
,
it
being
obvious
that
he
had
no
suspicion
whatever
of
any
antecedents
in
common
between
her
and
the
now
journeyman
hay-trusser
.
Henchard
did
not
turn
his
eyes
toward
either
of
the
pair
,
keeping
them
fixed
on
the
bond
he
twisted
,
as
if
that
alone
absorbed
him
.
A
feeling
of
delicacy
,
which
ever
prompted
Farfrae
to
avoid
anything
that
might
seem
like
triumphing
over
a
fallen
rivel
,
led
him
to
keep
away
from
the
hay-barn
where
Henchard
and
his
daughter
were
working
,
and
to
go
on
to
the
corn
department
.
Meanwhile
Lucetta
,
never
having
been
informed
that
Henchard
had
entered
her
husband
's
service
,
rambled
straight
on
to
the
barn
,
where
she
came
suddenly
upon
Henchard
,
and
gave
vent
to
a
little
“
Oh
!
”
which
the
happy
and
busy
Donald
was
too
far
off
to
hear
.
Henchard
,
with
withering
humility
of
demeanour
,
touched
the
brim
of
his
hat
to
her
as
Whittle
and
the
rest
had
done
,
to
which
she
breathed
a
dead-alive
“
Good
afternoon
.
”
“
I
beg
your
pardon
,
ma'am
?
”
said
Henchard
,
as
if
he
had
not
heard
.
“
I
said
good
afternoon
,
”
she
faltered
.
“
O
yes
,
good
afternoon
,
ma'am
,
”
he
replied
,
touching
his
hat
again
.
“
I
am
glad
to
see
you
,
ma'am
.
”
Lucetta
looked
embarrassed
,
and
Henchard
continued
:
“
For
we
humble
workmen
here
feel
it
a
great
honour
that
a
lady
should
look
in
and
take
an
interest
in
us
.
”
She
glanced
at
him
entreatingly
;
the
sarcasm
was
too
bitter
,
too
unendurable
.
“
Can
you
tell
me
the
time
,
ma'am
?
”
he
asked
.
“
Yes
,
”
she
said
hastily
;
“
half-past
four
.
”
“
Thank
'
ee
.
An
hour
and
a
half
longer
before
we
are
released
from
work
.
Ah
,
ma'am
,
we
of
the
lower
classes
know
nothing
of
the
gay
leisure
that
such
as
you
enjoy
!
”
As
soon
as
she
could
do
so
Lucetta
left
him
,
nodded
and
smiled
to
Elizabeth-Jane
,
and
joined
her
husband
at
the
other
end
of
the
enclosure
,
where
she
could
be
seen
leading
him
away
by
the
outer
gates
,
so
as
to
avoid
passing
Henchard
again
.
That
she
had
been
taken
by
surprise
was
obvious
.
The
result
of
this
casual
rencounter
was
that
the
next
morning
a
note
was
put
into
Henchard
's
hand
by
the
postman
.
“
Will
you
,
”
said
Lucetta
,
with
as
much
bitterness
as
she
could
put
into
a
small
communication
,
“
will
you
kindly
undertake
not
to
speak
to
me
in
the
biting
undertones
you
used
to-day
,
if
I
walk
through
the
yard
at
any
time
?
I
bear
you
no
ill-will
,
and
I
am
only
too
glad
that
you
should
have
employment
of
my
dear
husband
;
but
in
common
fairness
treat
me
as
his
wife
,
and
do
not
try
to
make
me
wretched
by
covert
sneers
.
I
have
committed
no
crime
,
and
done
you
no
injury
.
“
Poor
fool
!
”
said
Henchard
with
fond
savagery
,
holding
out
the
note
.
“
To
know
no
better
than
commit
herself
in
writing
like
this
!
Why
,
if
I
were
to
show
that
to
her
dear
husband
—
pooh
!
”
He
threw
the
letter
into
the
fire
.
Lucetta
took
care
not
to
come
again
among
the
hay
and
corn
.
She
would
rather
have
died
than
run
the
risk
of
encountering
Henchard
at
such
close
quarters
a
second
time
.
The
gulf
between
them
was
growing
wider
every
day
.
Farfrae
was
always
considerate
to
his
fallen
acquaintance
;
but
it
was
impossible
that
he
should
not
,
by
degrees
,
cease
to
regard
the
ex-corn-merchant
as
more
than
one
of
his
other
workmen
.
Henchard
saw
this
,
and
concealed
his
feelings
under
a
cover
of
stolidity
,
fortifying
his
heart
by
drinking
more
freely
at
the
Three
Mariners
every
evening
.
Often
did
Elizabeth-Jane
,
in
her
endeavours
to
prevent
his
taking
other
liquor
,
carry
tea
to
him
in
a
little
basket
at
five
o'clock
.
Arriving
one
day
on
this
errand
she
found
her
stepfather
was
measuring
up
clover-seed
and
rape-seed
in
the
corn-stores
on
the
top
floor
,
and
she
ascended
to
him
.
Each
floor
had
a
door
opening
into
the
air
under
a
cat-head
,
from
which
a
chain
dangled
for
hoisting
the
sacks
.
When
Elizabeth
's
head
rose
through
the
trap
she
perceived
that
the
upper
door
was
open
,
and
that
her
stepfather
and
Farfrae
stood
just
within
it
in
conversation
,
Farfrae
being
nearest
the
dizzy
edge
,
and
Henchard
a
little
way
behind
.
Not
to
interrupt
them
she
remained
on
the
steps
without
raising
her
head
any
higher
.
While
waiting
thus
she
saw
—
or
fancied
she
saw
,
for
she
had
a
terror
of
feeling
certain
—
her
stepfather
slowly
raise
his
hand
to
a
level
behind
Farfrae
's
shoulders
,
a
curious
expression
taking
possession
of
his
face
.
The
young
man
was
quite
unconscious
of
the
action
,
which
was
so
indirect
that
,
if
Farfrae
had
observed
it
,
he
might
almost
have
regarded
it
as
an
idle
outstretching
of
the
arm
.
But
it
would
have
been
possible
,
by
a
comparatively
light
touch
,
to
push
Farfrae
off
his
balance
,
and
send
him
head
over
heels
into
the
air
.
Elizabeth
felt
quite
sick
at
heart
on
thinking
of
what
this
MIGHT
have
meant
.
As
soon
as
they
turned
she
mechanically
took
the
tea
to
Henchard
,
left
it
,
and
went
away
.
Reflecting
,
she
endeavoured
to
assure
herself
that
the
movement
was
an
idle
eccentricity
,
and
no
more
.
Yet
,
on
the
other
hand
,
his
subordinate
position
in
an
establishment
where
he
once
had
been
master
might
be
acting
on
him
like
an
irritant
poison
;
and
she
finally
resolved
to
caution
Donald
.
34.
Next
morning
,
accordingly
,
she
rose
at
five
o'clock
and
went
into
the
street
.
It
was
not
yet
light
;
a
dense
fog
prevailed
,
and
the
town
was
as
silent
as
it
was
dark
,
except
that
from
the
rectangular
avenues
which
framed
in
the
borough
there
came
a
chorus
of
tiny
rappings
,
caused
by
the
fall
of
water-drops
condensed
on
the
boughs
;
now
it
was
wafted
from
the
West
Walk
,
now
from
the
South
Walk
;
and
then
from
both
quarters
simultaneously
.
She
moved
on
to
the
bottom
of
Corn
Street
,
and
,
knowing
his
time
well
,
waited
only
a
few
minutes
before
she
heard
the
familiar
bang
of
his
door
,
and
then
his
quick
walk
towards
her
.
She
met
him
at
the
point
where
the
last
tree
of
the
engirding
avenue
flanked
the
last
house
in
the
street
.
He
could
hardly
discern
her
till
,
glancing
inquiringly
,
he
said
,
“
What
—
Miss
Henchard
—
and
are
ye
up
so
airly
?
”
She
asked
him
to
pardon
her
for
waylaying
him
at
such
an
unseemly
time
.
“
But
I
am
anxious
to
mention
something
,
”
she
said
.
“
And
I
wished
not
to
alarm
Mrs.
Farfrae
by
calling
.
”
“
Yes
?
”
said
he
,
with
the
cheeriness
of
a
superior
.
“
And
what
may
it
be
?
It
's
very
kind
of
ye
,
I
'm
sure
.
”
She
now
felt
the
difficulty
of
conveying
to
his
mind
the
exact
aspect
of
possibilities
in
her
own
.
But
she
somehow
began
,
and
introduced
Henchard
's
name
.
“
I
sometimes
fear
,
”
she
said
with
an
effort
,
“
that
he
may
be
betrayed
into
some
attempt
to
—
insult
you
,
sir
.
“
But
we
are
the
best
of
friends
?
”
“
Or
to
play
some
practical
joke
upon
you
,
sir
.
Remember
that
he
has
been
hardly
used
.
”
“
But
we
are
quite
friendly
?
”
“
Or
to
do
something
—
that
would
injure
you
—
hurt
you
—
wound
you
.
”
Every
word
cost
her
twice
its
length
of
pain
.
And
she
could
see
that
Farfrae
was
still
incredulous
.
Henchard
,
a
poor
man
in
his
employ
,
was
not
to
Farfrae
's
view
the
Henchard
who
had
ruled
him
.
Yet
he
was
not
only
the
same
man
,
but
that
man
with
his
sinister
qualities
,
formerly
latent
,
quickened
into
life
by
his
buffetings
.
Farfrae
,
happy
,
and
thinking
no
evil
,
persisted
in
making
light
of
her
fears
.
Thus
they
parted
,
and
she
went
homeward
,
journeymen
now
being
in
the
street
,
waggoners
going
to
the
harness-makers
for
articles
left
to
be
repaired
,
farm-horses
going
to
the
shoeing-smiths
,
and
the
sons
of
labour
showing
themselves
generally
on
the
move
.
Elizabeth
entered
her
lodging
unhappily
,
thinking
she
had
done
no
good
,
and
only
made
herself
appear
foolish
by
her
weak
note
of
warning
.
But
Donald
Farfrae
was
one
of
those
men
upon
whom
an
incident
is
never
absolutely
lost
.
He
revised
impressions
from
a
subsequent
point
of
view
,
and
the
impulsive
judgment
of
the
moment
was
not
always
his
permanent
one
.
The
vision
of
Elizabeth
's
earnest
face
in
the
rimy
dawn
came
back
to
him
several
times
during
the
day
.
Knowing
the
solidity
of
her
character
he
did
not
treat
her
hints
altogether
as
idle
sounds
.
But
he
did
not
desist
from
a
kindly
scheme
on
Henchard
's
account
that
engaged
him
just
then
;
and
when
he
met
Lawyer
Joyce
,
the
town-clerk
,
later
in
the
day
,
he
spoke
of
it
as
if
nothing
had
occurred
to
damp
it
.
“
About
that
little
seedsman
's
shop
,
”
he
said
,
“
the
shop
overlooking
the
churchyard
,
which
is
to
let
.
It
is
not
for
myself
I
want
it
,
but
for
our
unlucky
fellow-townsman
Henchard
.
It
would
be
a
new
beginning
for
him
,
if
a
small
one
;
and
I
have
told
the
Council
that
I
would
head
a
private
subscription
among
them
to
set
him
up
in
it
—
that
I
would
be
fifty
pounds
,
if
they
would
make
up
the
other
fifty
among
them
.
”
“
Yes
,
yes
;
so
I
've
heard
;
and
there
's
nothing
to
say
against
it
for
that
matter
,
”
the
town-clerk
replied
,
in
his
plain
,
frank
way
.
“
But
,
Farfrae
,
others
see
what
you
do
n't
.
Henchard
hates
'
ee
—
ay
,
hates
'
ee
;
and
'
tis
right
that
you
should
know
it
.
To
my
knowledge
he
was
at
the
Three
Mariners
last
night
,
saying
in
public
that
about
you
which
a
man
ought
not
to
say
about
another
.
”
“
Is
that
so
—
ah
,
is
that
so
?
”
said
Farfrae
,
looking
down
.
“
Why
should
he
do
it
?
”
added
the
young
man
bitterly
;
“
what
harm
have
I
done
him
that
he
should
try
to
wrong
me
?
”
“
God
only
knows
,
”
said
Joyce
,
lifting
his
eyebrows
.
“
It
shows
much
long-suffering
in
you
to
put
up
with
him
,
and
keep
him
in
your
employ
.
”
“
But
I
cannet
discharge
a
man
who
was
once
a
good
friend
to
me
.
How
can
I
forget
that
when
I
came
here
'
twas
he
enabled
me
to
make
a
footing
for
mysel
'
?
No
,
no.
As
long
as
I
've
a
day
's
work
to
offer
he
shall
do
it
if
he
chooses
.
'
Tis
not
I
who
will
deny
him
such
a
little
as
that
.
But
I
'll
drop
the
idea
of
establishing
him
in
a
shop
till
I
can
think
more
about
it
.
”
It
grieved
Farfrae
much
to
give
up
this
scheme
.
But
a
damp
having
been
thrown
over
it
by
these
and
other
voices
in
the
air
,
he
went
and
countermanded
his
orders
.
The
then
occupier
of
the
shop
was
in
it
when
Farfrae
spoke
to
him
and
feeling
it
necessary
to
give
some
explanation
of
his
withdrawal
from
the
negotiation
Donald
mentioned
Henchard
's
name
,
and
stated
that
the
intentions
of
the
Council
had
been
changed
.
The
occupier
was
much
disappointed
,
and
straight-way
informed
Henchard
,
as
soon
as
he
saw
him
