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It mattered little where the plunge was taken; he would go to the barracks at Melchester. He lingered for a moment at the window of the booking-office, hardly knowing why he hesitated. Why not? He had only himself to please. The clerk grew impatient. "Well?" he said. Jack threw down his money. "Third, Melchester!" he said, and so crossed the Rubicon.
"I wonder he has the cheek to come, after the way he treated us at Melchester," said Valentine; "I never wish to see him again." Raymond did come, however, and instead of being at all abashed at the recollection of the termination of his tea-party, he was, if anything, more uppish than ever.
Jack, who in the course of his travels had acquired a prodigious thirst, lingered behind to drink a fourth cup of tea. "You silly boy," said his aunt, "where have you been?" "To Melchester." "To Melchester! You don't mean to say you've walked there and back in this blazing sun?" "Yes, I have. I wanted to get something." "What?" The boy rose from his chair, and came round to the head of the table.
Phillotson who had advised her to come there, and she wished she had never listened to him. Phillotson's suit was not exactly prospering, evidently; and Jude felt unreasonably glad. He packed up his things and went to Melchester with a lighter heart than he had known for months.
By the end of the evening he was the life of the party, and no one would have believed that he was the same boy who, a few hours ago, had come up the front path wishing in his secret heart that he was safely back at Melchester writing lines in the Upper Fourth classroom.
It would have been all the same if I had known a hundred. 'Her father is in business near the docks, I suppose? 'Well, no. In short, I didn't see her father. 'Her mother? 'Her mother? No, I didn't. I think her mother is dead; but she has got a very rich aunt living at Melchester. I didn't see her aunt, because there wasn't time to go; but of course we shall know her when we are married.
"On'y been there a day or two." "Oh! then she has not been staying there as a regular inmate?" "No. She first went to live in a garrison-town t'other side o' Wessex, and since then she's been picking up a living at seampstering in Melchester for several months, at the house of a very respectable widow-woman who takes in work of that sort.
You should have told me before that it was your sister and not yourself who was entangled with him. 'You brought me to Melchester on purpose to confront him! 'Yes, I did. 'Are you not ashamed? 'I am satisfied. It is better to know the truth by any means than to die of suspense; better for us both surely you see that?
He pulled the horse's head from the large patch of turf it had eaten bare, readjusted the boughs over the coffin, and drove along through the unwholesome night. It had gradually become rumoured in the village that the body to be brought and buried that day was all that was left of the unfortunate Fanny Robin who had followed the Eleventh from Casterbridge through Melchester and onwards.
He said at length, 'I fear 'tis Edmond Willowes. 'Who's he? 'By G that's bad mighty bad! said Lord Uplandtowers, throwing himself back in the chaise in frigid despair. They despatched emissaries in all directions; one by the Melchester Road, another by Shottsford-Forum, another coastwards.
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