templating

Updated: June 14, 2025

In con- templating Bathsheba as a woman, he had forgotten the accidents of her position as an agriculturist that being as much of a farmer, and as extensive a farmer, as himself, her probable whereabouts was out-of-doors at this time of the year. This, and the other oversights Boldwood was guilty of, were natural to the mood, and still more natural to the circumstances.

Thomas Hardy - Far from the Madding Crowd