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He probed the glowworms with a bit of stick, and rolled them over, till the bright side of their tails was upwards. "There's light enough. Throw on," said Venn. Wildeve brought down the box within the shining circle and looked eagerly. He had thrown ace. "Well done! I said it would turn, and it has turned." Venn said nothing; but his hand shook slightly. He threw ace also. "O!" said Wildeve.
Why didn't you tell me today when you came?" she said in the tone of a neglected person. "I heard of it quite by accident." "I did mean to tell you," said Wildeve. "But I well, I will speak frankly I did not like to mention it when I saw, Eustacia, that your star was not high.
She instantly guessed that Clym, having been home only these two or three days, had not as yet been made acquainted with Thomasin's painful situation with regard to Wildeve; and seeing her living there just as she had been living before he left home, he naturally suspected nothing. Eustacia felt a wild jealousy of Thomasin on the instant.
Eustacia fired up all too quickly, for her own consciousness of the old attachment between herself and Wildeve led her to jump to the conclusion that Mrs. Yeobright also knew of it, and might have come to accuse her of receiving dishonourable presents from him now. "I simply ask the question," said Mrs. Yeobright. "I have been "
There he could hear the noise of light wheels, and presently saw two carriagelamps descending the hill. Wildeve screened himself under a bush and waited. The vehicle came on and passed before him. It was a hired carriage, and behind the coachman were two persons whom he knew well. There sat Eustacia and Yeobright, the arm of the latter being round her waist.
As his signal had been rendered futile by this uproarious rapping Wildeve withdrew, passed out at the gate, and walked quickly down the path without thinking of anything except getting away unnoticed. Halfway down the hill the path ran near a knot of stunted hollies, which in the general darkness of the scene stood as the pupil in a black eye.
He could only decently save himself by Thomasin; and once he became her husband, Eustacia's repentance, he thought, would set in for a long and bitter term. It was no wonder that Wildeve, ignorant of the new man at the back of the scene, should have supposed Eustacia to be playing a part.
I was hastening ath'art to tell you at once, as I saw you were not there." "How came you to be there? How did you know it?" she asked. "I have been in that neighbourhood for some time, and I saw them go in," said the reddleman. "Wildeve came up to the door, punctual as the clock. I didn't expect it of him."
She had promised to meet Wildeve by the Barrow this very night at eight, to give a final answer to his pleading for an elopement. She herself had fixed the evening and the hour. He had probably come to the spot, waited there in the cold, and been greatly disappointed. "Well, so much the better it did not hurt him," she said serenely.
You might not win her back, but you might cause much unhappiness." "Of course I should do no such thing," said Wildeve "But they are not engaged yet. How do you know that Thomasin would accept him?" "That's a question I have carefully put to myself; and upon the whole the probabilities are in favour of her accepting him in time. I flatter myself that I have some influence over her.
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