Wessex Tales

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Thomas Hardy. Wessex Tales

PREFACE

AN IMAGINATIVE WOMAN

THE THREE STRANGERS

THE WITHERED ARM

CHAPTER I – A LORN MILKMAID

CHAPTER II – THE YOUNG WIFE

CHAPTER III – A VISION

CHAPTER IV – A SUGGESTION

CHAPTER V – CONJUROR TRENDLE

CHAPTER VI – A SECOND ATTEMPT

CHAPTER VII – A RIDE

CHAPTER VIII – A WATER-SIDE HERMIT

CHAPTER IX – A RENCOUNTER

FELLOW-TOWNSMEN

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

INTERLOPERS AT THE KNAP

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

THE DISTRACTED PREACHER

CHAPTER I – HOW HIS COLD WAS CURED

CHAPTER II – HOW HE SAW TWO OTHER MEN

CHAPTER III – THE MYSTERIOUS GREATCOAT

CHAPTER IV – AT THE TIME OF THE NEW MOON

CHAPTER V – HOW THEY WENT TO LULSTEAD COVE

CHAPTER VI – THE GREAT SEARCH AT NETHER-MOYNTON

CHAPTER VII – THE WALK TO WARM’ELL CROSS AND AFTERWARDS

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When William Marchmill had finished his inquiries for lodgings at a well-known watering-place in Upper Wessex, he returned to the hotel to find his wife. She, with the children, had rambled along the shore, and Marchmill followed in the direction indicated by the military-looking hall-porter

‘By Jove, how far you’ve gone! I am quite out of breath,’ Marchmill said, rather impatiently, when he came up with his wife, who was reading as she walked, the three children being considerably further ahead with the nurse.

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‘Shall I come down again?’

‘O no. I’m as tired as a dog. I’ve had a good feed, and I shall turn in straight off. I want to get out at six o’clock to-morrow if I can.. I shan’t disturb you by my getting up; it will be long before you are awake.’ And he came forward into the room.

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