The Return of the Native
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Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native
PREFACE
BOOK ONE – THE THREE WOMEN
1 – A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
2 – Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
3 – The Custom of the Country
4 – The Halt on the Turnpike Road
5 – Perplexity among Honest People
6 – The Figure against the Sky
7 – Queen of Night
8 – Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody
9 – Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
10 – A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
11 – The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman
BOOK TWO – THE ARRIVAL
1 – Tidings of the Comer
2 – The People at Blooms-End Make Ready
3 – How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream
4 – Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
5 – Through the Moonlight
6 – The Two Stand Face to Face
7 – A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
8 – Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart
BOOK THREE – THE FASCINATION
1 – “My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is”
2 – The New Course Causes Disappointment
3 – The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
4 – An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
5 – Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues
6 – Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete
7 – The Morning and the Evening of a Day
8 – A New Force Disturbs the Current
BOOK FOUR – THE CLOSED DOOR
1 – The Rencounter by the Pool
2 – He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
3 – She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
4 – Rough Coercion Is Employed
5 – The Journey across the Heath
6 – A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian
7 – The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends
8 – Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil
BOOK FIVE – THE DISCOVERY
1 – “Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery”
2 – A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
3 – Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning
4 – The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One
5 – An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated
6 – Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter
7 – The Night of the Sixth of November
8 – Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
9 – Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
BOOK SIX – AFTERCOURSES
1 – The Inevitable Movement Onward
2 – Thomasin Walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road
3 – The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin
4 – Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His
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A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment. Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud shutting out the sky was as a tent which had the whole heath for its floor.
In fact, precisely at this transitional point of its nightly roll into darkness the great and particular glory of the Egdon waste began, and nobody could be said to understand the heath who had not been there at such a time. It could best be felt when it could not clearly be seen, its complete effect and explanation lying in this and the succeeding hours before the next dawn; then, and only then, did it tell its true tale. The spot was, indeed, a near relation of night, and when night showed itself an apparent tendency to gravitate together could be perceived in its shades and the scene. The sombre stretch of rounds and hollows seemed to rise and meet the evening gloom in pure sympathy, the heath exhaling darkness as rapidly as the heavens precipitated it. And so the obscurity in the air and the obscurity in the land closed together in a black fraternization towards which each advanced halfway.
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“Was it quite safe when the winder shook?” Christian inquired.
He received no answer, all for the moment sitting rapt in admiration of the performance described. As with Farinelli’s singing before the princesses, Sheridan’s renowned Begum Speech, and other such examples, the fortunate condition of its being for ever lost to the world invested the deceased Mr. Yeobright’s tour de force on that memorable afternoon with a cumulative glory which comparative criticism, had that been possible, might considerably have shorn down.
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