Chapter II A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding

Clym’s grief became mitigated by wearing itself out. His strength returned, and a month after the visit of Thomasin he might have been seen walking about the garden. Endurance and despair, equanimity and gloom, the tints of health and the pallor of death mingled...

Chapter VIII Eustacia hears of Good Fortune, and beholds Evil

In the meantime Eustacia, left alone in her cottage at Alderworth, had become considerably depressed by the posture of affairs. The consequences which might result from Clym’s discovery that his mother had been turned from his door that day were not such as she...

Chapter VII The Tragical Meeting of Two Old Friends

He in the meantime had aroused himself from sleep, sat up, and looked around. Eustacia was sitting in a chair hard by him, and though she held a book in her hand she had not looked into it for some time. “Well, indeed,” said Clym,...

Chapter IV Rough Coercion is employed

Those words of Thomasin, which seemed so little but meant so much, remained in the ears of Diggory Venn. “Help me to keep him home in the evenings.” On this occasion Venn had arrived on Egdon Heath only to cross to the other side: he...

Chapter VI Yeobright goes, and the Breach is Complete

All that evening smart sounds denoting an active packing up came from Yeobright’s room to the ears of his mother downstairs. Next morning he departed from the house and again proceeded across the heath. A long day’s march was before him, his object being to...

Chapter V Through the Moonlight

The next evening the mummers were assembled in the same spot, awaiting the entrance of the Turkish Knight. “Twenty minutes after eight by the Quiet Woman, and Charley not come.” “Ten minutes past by Blooms-End.” “It wants ten minutes to, by Grandfer Cantle’s watch.” “And...

Chapter XI The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman

The reddleman had left Eustacia’s presence with desponding views on Thomasin’s future happiness; but he was awakened to the fact that one other channel remained untried by seeing, as he followed the way to his van, the form of Mrs Yeobright slowly walking towards...

Chapter V Perplexity among Honest People

Thomasin looked as if quite overcome by her aunt’s change of manner. “It means just what it seems to mean: I am—not married,” she replied faintly. “Excuse me—for humiliating you, aunt, by this mishap: I am sorry for it. But I cannot help it.”... “Me?...

Chapter II Humanity appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble

Along the road walked an old man. He was white headed as a mountain, bowed in the shoulders, and faded in general aspect. He wore a glazed hat, an ancient boat-cloak, and shoes, his brass buttons bearing an anchor upon their face. In his...

Chapter I The Inevitable Movement Onward

The story of the deaths of Eustacia and Wildeve was told throughout Egdon, and far beyond, for many weeks and months. All the known incidents of their love were enlarged, distorted, touched up, and modified, till the original reality bore but a slight resemblance...