Chapter VII: Preface: Part First � a Young Man of Twenty
1. I. A SUPPOSITITIOUS PRESENTMENT OF HER
1. II. THE INCARNATION IS ASSUMED TO BE TRUE
1. III. THE APPOINTMENT
1. IV. A LONELY PEDESTRIAN
1. V. A CHARGE
1. VI. ON THE BRINK
1. VII. HER EARLIER INCARNATIONS
1. VIII. 'TOO LIKE THE LIGHTNING�
1. IX. FAMILIAR PHENOMENA IN THE DISTANCE
PART SECOND � A YOUNG MAN OF FORTY
2. I. THE OLD PHANTOM BECOMES DISTINCT
2. II. SHE DRAWS CLOSE AND SATISFIES
2. III. SHE BECOMES AN INACCESSIBLE GHOST
2. IV. SHE THREATENS TO RESUME CORPOREAL SUBSTANCE
2. V. THE RESUMPTION TAKES PLACE
2. VI. THE PAST SHINES IN THE PRESENT
2. VII. THE NEW BECOMES ESTABLISHED
2. VIII. HIS OWN SOUL CONFRONTS HIM
2. IX. JUXTAPOSITIONS
2. X. SHE FAILS TO VANISH STILL
2. XI. THE IMAGE PERSISTS
2. XII. A GRILLE DESCENDS BETWEEN
2. XIII. SHE IS ENSHROUDED FROM SIGHT
PART THIRD � A YOUNG MAN OF SIXTY
3. I. SHE RETURNS FOR THE NEW SEASON
3. II. MISGIVINGS ON THE RE-EMBODIMENT
3. III. THE RENEWED IMAGE BURNS ITSELF IN
3. IV. A DASH FOR THE LAST INCARNATION
3. V. ON THE VERGE OF POSSESSION
3. VI. THE WELL-BELOVED IS�WHERE?
3. VII. AN OLD TABERNACLE IN A NEW ASPECT
3. VIII. 'ALAS FOR THIS GREY SHADOW, ONCE A MAN!�
LATE LYRICS AND EARLIER WITH MANY OTHER VERSES By Thomas Hardy CONTENTS
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Apology
v
Weathers
1
The maid of Keinton Mandeville
3
Summer Schemes
5
Epeisodia
6
Faintheart in a Railway Train
8
At Moonrise and Onwards
9
The Garden Seat
11
Barth�l�mon at Vauxhall
12
�I sometimes think�
14
Jezreel
15
A Jog-trot Pair
17
�The Curtains now are drawn�
19
�According to the Mighty Working�
21
�I was not He�
22
The West-of-Wessex Girl
23
Welcome Home
25
Going and Staying
26
Read by Moonlight
27
At a house in Hampstead
28
A Woman�s Fancy
30
p. xxHer Song
33
A Wet August
35
The Dissemblers
36
To a Lady playing and singing in the Morning
37
�A Man was drawing near to me�
38
The Strange House
40
�As �twere To-night�
42
The Contretemps
43
A Gentleman�s Epitaph on Himself and a Lady
46
The Old Gown
48
A Night in November
50
A Duettist to her Pianoforte
51
�Where Three Roads joined�
53
�And There was a Great Calm�
55
Haunting Fingers
59
The Woman I Met
63
�If it�s ever Spring again�
67
The Two Houses
68
On Stinsford Hill at Midnight
72
The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House
74
The Selfsame Song
75
The Wanderer
76
A Wife comes back
78
A Young Man�s Exhortation
81
At Lulworth Cove a Century Back
83
A Bygone Occasion
85
Two Serenades
86
p. xxiThe Wedding Morning
89
End of the Year 1912
90
The Chimes play �Life�s a Bumper!�
91
�I worked no Wile to meet You�
93
At the Railway Station, Upway
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Side by Side
96
Dream of the City Shopwoman
98
A Maiden�s Pledge
100
The Child and the Sage
101
Mismet
103
An Autumn Rain-scene
105
Meditations on a Holiday
107
An Experience
111
The Beauty
113
The Collector cleans his Picture
114
The Wood Fire
117
Saying Good-bye
119
On the Tune called The Old-hundred-and-fourth
121
The Opportunity
123
Evelyn G. of Christminster
124
The Rift
126
Voices from Things growing
127
On the Way
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�She did not turn�
132
Growth in May
133
The Children and Sir Nameless
134
At the Royal Academy
136
Her Temple
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p. xxiiA Two-years� Idyll
139
By Henstridge Cross at the Year�s End
141
Penance
143
�I look in her Face�
145
After the War
146
�If you had known�
148
The Chapel-Organist
150
Fetching Her
157
�Could I but will�
159
She revisits alone the Church of her Marriage
161
At the Entering of the New Year
163
They would not come
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After a Romantic Day
167
The Two Wives
168
�I knew a Lady�
170
A House with a History
171
A Procession of Dead Days
173
He follows Himself
176
The Singing Woman
178
Without, not within Her
179
�O I won�t lead a Homely Life�
180
In the Small Hours
181
The Little Old Table
183
Vagg Hollow
184
The Dream is�which?
186
The Country Wedding
187
First or Last
190
Lonely Days
191
p. xxiii�What did it mean?�
194
At the Dinner-table
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The Marble Tablet
198
The Master and the Leaves
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Last Words to a Dumb Friend
201
A Drizzling Easter morning
204
On One who lived and died where He was born
205
The Second Night
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She who saw not
210
The Old Workman
212
The Sailor�s Mother
214
Outside the Casement
216
The Passer-by
218
�I was the Midmost�
220
A Sound in the Night
221
On a Discovered Curl of Hair
226
An Old Likeness
227
Her Apotheosis
229
�Sacred to the Memory�
230
To a Well-named Dwelling
231
The Whipper-in
232
A Military Appointment
234
The Milestone by the Rabbit-burrow
236
The Lament of the Looking-glass
237
Cross-currents
238
The Old Neighbour and the New
240
The Chosen
241
The Inscription
244
p. xxivThe Marble-streeted Town
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A Woman driving
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A Woman�s Trust
254
Best Times
256
The Casual Acquaintance
258
Intra Sepulchrum
260
The Whitewashed Wall
262
Just the Same
264
The Last Time
265
The Seven Times
266
The Sun�s Last Look on the Country Girl
269
In a London Flat
270
Drawing Details in an Old Church
272
Rake-hell muses
273
The Colour
277
Murmurs in the Gloom
279
Epitaph
281
An Ancient to Ancients
282
After reading psalms xxxix., xl.
285
Surview
287
LIFE'S LITTLE IRONIES And a set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled: A FEW CRUSTED CHARACTERS By Thomas Hardy
CONTENTS
THE SON'S VETO
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
FOR CONSCIENCE' SAKE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
A TRAGEDY OF TWO AMBITIONS
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
ON THE WESTERN CIRCUIT
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
TO PLEASE HIS WIFE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
THE MELANCHOLY HUSSAR OF THE GERMAN LEGION
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
THE FIDDLER OF THE REELS
A TRADITION OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FOUR
A FEW CRUSTED CHARACTERS
TONY KYTES, THE ARCH-DECEIVER
THE HISTORY OF THE HARDCOMES
THE SUPERSTITIOUS MAN'S STORY
ANDREY SATCHEL AND THE PARSON AND CLERK
OLD ANDREY'S EXPERIENCE AS A MUSICIAN
ABSENT-MINDEDNESS IN A PARISH CHOIR
THE WINTERS AND THE PALMLEYS
INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF MR. GEORGE CROOKHILL
NETTY SARGENT'S COPYHOLD
A GROUP OF NOBLE DAMES
That is to say: The First Countess Of Wessex; Barbara Of The Hose Of Grebe; The Marchioness Of Stonehenge; Lady Mottifont Squire Petrick's Lady; The Lady Icenway Anna, Lady Baxby; The Lady Penelope; The Duchess Of Hamptonshire; And The Honourable Laura
'. . . Store of Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence.'-L'Allegro.
With a map of wessex By Thomas Hardy
CONTENTS
PREFACE
DAME THE FIRST-THE FIRST COUNTESS OF WESSEX
DAME THE SECOND-BARBARA OF THE HOUSE OF GREBE
DAME THE THIRD-THE MARCHIONESS OF STONEHENGE
DAME THE FOURTH-LADY MOTTISFONT
DAME THE FIFTH-THE LADY ICENWAY
DAME THE SIXTH-SQUIRE PETRICK'S LADY
DAME THE SEVENTH-ANNA, LADY BAXBY
DAME THE EIGHTH-THE LADY PENELOPE
DAME THE NINTH-THE DUCHESS OF HAMPTONSHIRE
DAME THE TENTH-THE HONOURABLE LAURA
WESSEX TALES
By Thomas Hardy
CONTENTS
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
VIII-A WATER-SIDE HERMIT
IX-A RENCOUNTER
FELLOW-TOWNSMEN
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
INTERLOPERS AT THE KNAP
I
II
III
IV
V
THE DISTRACTED PREACHER
I-HOW HIS COLD WAS CURED
II-HOW HE SAW TWO OTHER MEN
III-THE MYSTERIOUS GREATCOAT
IV-AT THE TIME OF THE NEW MOON
V-HOW THEY WENT TO LULSTEAD COVE
VI-THE GREAT SEARCH AT NETHER-MOYNTON
VII-THE WALK TO WARM'ELL CROSS AND AFTERWARDS
A CHANGED MAN AND OTHER TALES By Thomas Hardy
CONTENTS
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
A TRYST AT AN ANCIENT EARTH WORK
WHAT THE SHEPHERD SAW
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
THE HAND OF ETHELBERTA-A COMEDY IN CHAPTERS By Thomas Hardy
"Vitae post-scenia celant."-Lucretius.
CONTENTS
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