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Among other things opportunity had of late years been denied her of learning to be undignified, for she lived lonely. Isolation on a heath renders vulgarity well-nigh impossible. It would have been as easy for the heath-ponies, bats, and snakes to be vulgar as for her. A narrow life in Budmouth might have completely demeaned her.
This was the day before the Budmouth races. In the evening Troy said, suddenly "Bathsheba, could you let me have twenty pounds?" Her countenance instantly sank." Twenty pounds? she said. "The fact is, I want it badly." The anxiety upon Troy's face was unusual and very marked. lt was a culmination of the mood he had been in all the day. "Ah! for those races to-morrow."
'NURSERY GOVERNESS OR USEFUL COMPANION. A young person wishes to hear of a situation in either of the above capacities. Salary very moderate. She is a good needle-woman Address G., 3 Cross Street, Budmouth. In the evening they went to post the letter, and then walked up and down the Parade for a while. Soon they met Springrove, said a few words to him, and passed on.
Lending him what little clothing they could spare among them as a slight protection against late they made again towards the roadstead where their And now night drooped slowly upon the wide watery levels in front; and at no great distance from them, where the shoreline curved round, and formed a long riband of shade upon the horizon, a series of points of yellow light began to start into existence, denoting the spot to be the site of Budmouth, where the lamps were being lighted along the parade.
You know we are trying in Budmouth to raise some money for your sufferers; and the way we have thought of is by a dramatic performance. They want me to take a part. His face saddened. 'I have known so much of that sort of thing, and all that accompanies it! I wish you had thought of some other way. She said lightly that she was afraid it was all settled. 'You object to my taking a part, then?
"And even as 'tis we all look a little scammish beside him. But in the year four 'twas said there wasn't a finer figure in the whole South Wessex than I, as I looked when dashing past the shop-winders with the rest of our company on the day we ran out o' Budmouth because it was thoughted that Boney had landed round the point.
''Tis the colour of hers, but I don't believe it to be hers either. 'Don't you believe what they d' say about her and him? 'I say nothen about that; but you don't know what I know about his letters. 'What about 'em? 'He d' post all his letters here except those for one person, and they he d' take to Budmouth.
By the time that they had sat down to a gloomy breakfast, Bob was in the boat of a Budmouth waterman, who pulled him alongside the guardship in the roads, where he laid hold of the man-rope, mounted, and disappeared from external view.
"Yes; but how he's coming from Budmouth I don't know." "That's a bad trouble about his cousin Thomasin. I wonder such a nice-notioned fellow as Clym likes to come home into it. What a nunnywatch we were in, to be sure, when we heard they weren't married at all, after singing to 'em as man and wife that night! Be dazed if I should like a relation of mine to have been made such a fool of by a man.
Upon the door was a neglected brass plate, bearing the unexpected inscription, "Mr. Wildeve, Engineer" a useless yet cherished relic from the time when he had been started in that profession in an office at Budmouth by those who had hoped much from him, and had been disappointed.
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