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The impression that this woman of comparatively practised manner had made upon the studious girl's mind was so deep that she enjoyed standing under an opposite archway merely to think that the charming lady was inside the confronting walls, and to wonder what she was doing "Quite sure?" she said That characters deteriorated in time of need possibly did not occur to, Henchard It extended a long way back from the house, first as lawn and flower-beds, then as fruit-garden, where the long-tied espaliers, as old as the old house itself, had grown so stout, and cramped, and gnarled that they had pulled their stakes out of the ground and stood distorted and writhing in vegetable agony, like leafy Laocoons "I am a very ambitious woman "Did ye ever know yourself, Miss Newson?" It was produced by the passing of a load of newly trussed hay from the country, in a waggon marked with Farfrae's name

Henchard, the Mayor, at the end of the table, a facing ye; and that's the Council men right and left "Twas just something to say--that's all! But we must make private inquiries But I fear I must go--rain or no The more interesting that her appearance and manners became under the softening influences which she could now command, and in her wisdom did command, the more she seemed to estrange him He looked about the room at the novel hangings and ingenious furniture with which she had surrounded herself The lady had obviously arrived Henchard, who had hitherto been the most admired man in his circle, was the most admired no longer

Ah, ma'am--well ye may say it! responded the old woman, opening the sluices of her heart forthwith "It is so difficult At the town-pump there were gathered when he passed a few old inhabitants, who came there for water whenever they had, as at present, spare time to fetch it, because it was purer from that original fount than from their own wells He took the sailor's notes and deliberately folded them, and put them with the shillings in a high remote pocket, with an air of finality She thanked him for this offer And--O, I know I shan't do!--she cried with a distressful laugh High-Place Hall could boast of its conveniences undoubtedly Their reminiscences were cut short by the appearance of the reunited pair--Henchard looking round upon the idlers with that ambiguous gaze of his, which at one moment seemed to mean satisfaction, and at another fiery disdain Farfrae walked slowly after, looking thoughtfully at her diminishing figure, and whistling in undertones, "As I came down through Cannobie Elizabeth-Jane's bonnet and shawl were pitchforked on in a moment, and they went out