A Laodicean : A Story of To-day

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Thomas Hardy. A Laodicean : A Story of To-day

PREFACE

BOOK THE FIRST. GEORGE SOMERSET

BOOK THE SECOND. DARE AND HAVILL

BOOK THE THIRD. DE STANCY

BOOK THE FOURTH. SOMERSET, DARE AND DE STANCY

BOOK THE FIFTH. DE STANCY AND PAULA

BOOK THE SIXTH. PAULA

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The sun blazed down and down, till it was within half-an-hour of its setting; but the sketcher still lingered at his occupation of measuring and copying the chevroned doorway – a bold and quaint example of a transitional style of architecture, which formed the tower entrance to an English village church. The graveyard being quite open on its western side, the tweed-clad figure of the young draughtsman, and the tall mass of antique masonry which rose above him to a battlemented parapet, were fired to a great brightness by the solar rays, that crossed the neighbouring mead like a warp of gold threads, in whose mazes groups of equally lustrous gnats danced and wailed incessantly.

He was so absorbed in his pursuit that he did not mark the brilliant chromatic effect of which he composed the central feature, till it was brought home to his intelligence by the warmth of the moulded stonework under his touch when measuring; which led him at length to turn his head and gaze on its cause.

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‘I saw it.’

She blushed and looked down the river. ‘I cannot give my reasons,’ she said.

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