...Far from the Madding Crowd THOMAS HARDY 1874 Contents 1 DESCRIPTION OF FARMER OAK — AN INCIDENT . .... ...Far from the Madding Crowd THOMAS HARDY 1874 Contents 1 DESCRIPTION OF FARMER OAK — AN INCIDENT . . . . . ... ...AN INTERIOR — AN OTHER INTERIOR I T was nearly midnight on the eve of St. Thomas’s, the shortest day in the year. A desolating wind wandered from the... ... colours as a shepherd, but had laid himself out for anything in the whole cycle of labour that was required in the fair. It grew dusk. Some merry men... ...y no means uninteresting intrinsically. If report spoke truly they were as hardy, merry, thriving, wicked a set as any in the whole county. Oak resolv... ...returned upon him like the pain of a wound received in an excitement which eclipses it, and he, too, then went on. Chapter 20 PERPLEXITY — GRINDING T... ... but she could not really forgive him for letting his wish to marry her be eclipsed by his wish to do her good, any more than for his slighting treatm... ...e earlier, when she had med itated upon compromised honour, forestalment, eclipse in maternity by another, was violent and entire. All that was forgo...