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"I wouldn't cry about it, miss," said William Smallbury, compassionately. "Why not ask him softer like? I'm sure he'd come then. Gable is a true man in that way." Bathsheba checked her grief and wiped her eyes. "Oh, it is a wicked cruelty to me it is it is!" she murmured. "And he drives me to do what I wouldn't; yes, he does! Tall, come indoors."
I heard her moving about inside for more than an hour, but she only came out once, and that was for more candles, because hers had burnt down into the socket. She said we were to let her know when you or Mr. Thirdly came, sir." Oak entered with the parson at this moment, and they all went upstairs together, preceded by Liddy Smallbury.
And you, Billy Smallbury and you, Maryann Money and you, Jan Coggan, and Matthew there!" Other figures now appeared behind this shouting man and among the smoke, and Gabriel found that, far from being alone he was in a great company whose shadows danced merrily up and down, timed by the jigging of the flames, and not at all by their owners' movements.
The pane of glass was illuminated as usual. Smallbury was a little in advance of the rest when, pausing, he turned suddenly to his companions and said, "Hist! See there." The light from the pane was now perceived to be shining not upon the ivied wall as usual, but upon some object close to the glass. It was a human face. "Let's come closer." whispered Samway; and they approached on tiptoe.
"Now I think I have done with you." said Bathsheba, closing the book and shaking back a stray twine of hair. "Has William Smallbury returned?" "No, ma'am." "The new shepherd will want a man under him," suggested Henery Fray, trying to make himself official again by a sideway approach towards her chair. "Oh he will. Who can he have?" "Young Cain Ball is a very good lad."
You see, he might have gone the bad road and given his eyes to unlawfulness entirely yes, gross un- lawfulness, so to say it." "You see." said Billy Smallbury, "The man's will was to do right, sure enough, but his heart didn't chime in." "He got so much better, that he was quite godly in his later years, wasn't he, Jan?" said Joseph Poor- grass.
I had to stand and look ba'dy people in the face from morning till night; but 'twas no use I was just as bad as ever after all. Blushes hev been in the family for generations. There, 'tis a happy providence that I be no worse." "True," said Jacob Smallbury, deepening his thoughts to a profounder view of the subject.
"William Smallbury." said a dim figure in the shades, coming up and joining them. "Dark as a hedge, to- night, isn't it? I all but missed the plank over the river ath'art there in the bottom never did such a thing before in my life. Be ye any of Boldwood's workfolk?" He peered into their faces. "Yes all o' us. We met here a few minutes ago."
"I met Farmer Boldwood." said Jacob Smallbury, 'and I went with him and two of his men, and dragged New- mill Pond, but we found nothing." "And the new shepherd have been to Buck's Head, by Yalbury, thinking she had gone there, but nobody had seed her." said Laban Tall. "Hasn't William Smallbury been to Casterbridge?" "Yes, ma'am, but he's not yet come home. He promised to be back by six."
William Smallbury is gone to Casterbridge, where her young man lives, as is supposed, and the other men be inquir- ing about everywhere." The horse's tramp then recommenced and -retreated, and the door closed. "Who is Mr. Boldwood?" said Bathsheba. "A gentleman-farmer at Little Weatherbury." "Married?" "No, miss." "How old is he?" "Forty, I should say very handsome rather stern- looking and rich."
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