A Changed Man, and Other Tales
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Thomas Hardy. A Changed Man, and Other Tales
PREFATORY NOTE
A CHANGED MAN
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
THE WAITING SUPPER
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
ALICIA’S DIARY
CHAPTER I. – SHE MISSES HER SISTER
CHAPTER II. – NEWS INTERESTING AND SERIOUS
CHAPTER III. – HER GLOOM LIGHTENS A LITTLE
CHAPTER IV. – SHE BEHOLDS THE ATTRACTIVE STRANGER
CHAPTER V. – HER SITUATION IS A TRYING ONE
CHAPTER VI. – HER INGENUITY INSTIGATES HER
CHAPTER VII. – A SURPRISE AWAITS HER
CHAPTER VIII. – SHE TRAVELS IN PURSUIT
CHAPTER IX. – SHE WITNESSES THE END
CHAPTER X. – SHE ADDS A NOTE LONG AFTER
THE GRAVE BY THE HANDPOST
ENTER A DRAGOON
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II
III
IV
V
VI
A TRYST AT AN ANCIENT EARTH WORK
WHAT THE SHEPHERD SAW: A TALE OF FOUR MOONLIGHT NIGHTS
SECOND NIGHT
THIRD NIGHT
FOURTH NIGHT
A COMMITTEE-MAN OF ‘THE TERROR’
MASTER JOHN HORSELEIGH, KNIGHT
THE DUKE’S REAPPEARANCE – A FAMILY TRADITION
A MERE INTERLUDE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
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The person who, next to the actors themselves, chanced to know most of their story, lived just below ‘Top o’ Town’ (as the spot was called) in an old substantially-built house, distinguished among its neighbours by having an oriel window on the first floor, whence could be obtained a raking view of the High Street, west and east, the former including Laura’s dwelling, the end of the Town Avenue hard by (in which were played the odd pranks hereafter to be mentioned), the Port-Bredy road rising westwards, and the turning that led to the cavalry barracks where the Captain was quartered. Looking eastward down the town from the same favoured gazebo, the long perspective of houses declined and dwindled till they merged in the highway across the moor. The white riband of road disappeared over Grey’s Bridge a quarter of a mile off, to plunge into innumerable rustic windings, shy shades, and solitary undulations up hill and down dale for one hundred and twenty miles till it exhibited itself at Hyde Park Corner as a smooth bland surface in touch with a busy and fashionable world.
To the barracks aforesaid had recently arrived the – th Hussars, a regiment new to the locality. Almost before any acquaintance with its members had been made by the townspeople, a report spread that they were a ‘crack’ body of men, and had brought a splendid band. For some reason or other the town had not been used as the headquarters of cavalry for many years, the various troops stationed there having consisted of casual detachments only; so that it was with a sense of honour that everybody – even the small furniture-broker from whom the married troopers hired tables and chairs – received the news of their crack quality.
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‘You are sorry, then, even to be thought my wife, much less to be it.’ He dropped her hand, which fell lifelessly.
‘Then, dear Christine, let us mend the muddle. I’ll go away for a few days and get another licence, and you can come to me.’
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