Desperate Remedies

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Thomas Hardy. Desperate Remedies

PREFATORY NOTE

I. THE EVENTS OF THIRTY YEARS

II. THE EVENTS OF A FORTNIGHT

III. THE EVENTS OF EIGHT DAYS

IV. THE EVENTS OF ONE DAY

V. THE EVENTS OF ONE DAY

VI. THE EVENTS OF TWELVE HOURS

VII. THE EVENTS OF EIGHTEEN DAYS

VIII. THE EVENTS OF EIGHTEEN DAYS

IX. THE EVENTS OF TEN WEEKS

X. THE EVENTS OF A DAY AND NIGHT

XI. THE EVENTS OF FIVE DAYS

XII. THE EVENTS OF TEN MONTHS

XIII. THE EVENTS OF ONE DAY

XIV. THE EVENTS OF FIVE WEEKS

XV. THE EVENTS OF THREE WEEKS

XVI. THE EVENTS OF ONE WEEK

XVII. THE EVENTS OF ONE DAY

XVIII. THE EVENTS OF THREE DAYS

XIX. THE EVENTS OF A DAY AND NIGHT

XX. THE EVENTS OF THREE HOURS

XXI. THE EVENTS OF EIGHTEEN HOURS

SEQUEL

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In the long and intricately inwrought chain of circumstance which renders worthy of record some experiences of Cytherea Graye, Edward Springrove, and others, the first event directly influencing the issue was a Christmas visit.

In the above-mentioned year, 1835, Ambrose Graye, a young architect who had just begun the practice of his profession in the midland town of Hocbridge, to the north of Christminster, went to London to spend the Christmas holidays with a friend who lived in Bloomsbury. They had gone up to Cambridge in the same year, and, after graduating together, Huntway, the friend, had taken orders.

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One or two persons had said, ‘How d’ye do, Mr. Springrove?’ and looked at Cytherea, to see how she bore her disappointment. Her ears had but just caught the name of the head draughtsman, when she saw him advancing directly to address her.

‘Miss Graye, I believe?’ he said, lifting his hat.

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