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Throughout this period Yeobright had more or less pondered on his duty to his cousin Thomasin. He could not help feeling that it would be a pitiful waste of sweet material if the tender-natured thing should be doomed from this early stage of her life onwards to dribble away her winsome qualities on lonely gorse and fern. But he felt this as an economist merely, and not as a lover.
Eustacia was not one to commit herself to such a position without good ground. He said quietly, "No." "Not even on the shoulders of Thomasin?" "Thomasin is a pleasing and innocent woman." "That's nothing to do with it," she cried with quick passionateness. "We will leave her out; there are only you and me now to think of."
"I have thought it my duty to call today. A new proposal has been made to me, which has rather astonished me. It will affect Thomasin greatly; and I have decided that it should at least be mentioned to you." "Yes? What is it?" he said civilly. "It is, of course, in reference to her future. You may not be aware that another man has shown himself anxious to marry Thomasin.
Yeobright, on returning from her interview with him in the porch, carelessly observed, "Another lover has come to ask for you." "No?" "Yes, that queer young man Venn." "Asks to pay his addresses to me?" "Yes; and I told him he was too late." Thomasin looked silently into the candle-flame. "Poor Diggory!" she said, and then aroused herself to other things.
"You had better not talk any more now, Clym," said Eustacia faintly from the other part of the room, for the scene was growing intolerable to her. "Let me talk to you instead for the little time I shall be here," Thomasin said soothingly. "Consider what a one-sided way you have of looking at the matter, Clym.
"Now we leave you in absolute possession of your own house again," said Thomasin as she bent down to wish her cousin good night. "It will be rather lonely for you, Clym, after the hubbub we have been making." "O, that's no inconvenience," said Clym, smiling rather sadly. And then the party drove off and vanished in the night shades, and Yeobright entered the house.
Wildeve's were a hundred miles apart instead of four or five." "Then there WAS an understanding between him and Clym's wife when he made a fool of Thomasin!" "We'll hope there's no understanding now." "And our hope will probably be very vain. O Clym! O Thomasin!" "There's no harm done yet. In fact, I've persuaded Wildeve to mind his own business." "How?"
That these are not what they were towards you may, perhaps, be a fault in me, but it is one which you can scarcely reproach me for when you remember how you left me for Thomasin. The little articles you gave me in the early part of our friendship are returned by the bearer of this letter. They should rightly have been sent back when I first heard of your engagement to her.
She took the coin from him and her eyes rested on it lovingly while the outlines of her face grew softer and she moistened her lips. "First gawld's ever I had," commented Tom. "You'm 'mazin' generous wi' your moneys, uncle, an' I thank 'e hearty for the bwoy. Mighty good of 'e so much money to wance," said Thomasin, showing more gratification than she knew.
"Many women are lovelier than Thomasin," she said, "so not much attaches to that." The reddleman suffered the wound and went on: "He is a man who notices the looks of women, and you could twist him to your will like withywind, if you only had the mind." "Surely what she cannot do who has been so much with him I cannot do living up here away from him."
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