Show KS CONDENSED CLASSICS FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD by THOMAS HARDY 91 condensation by alfred S dark clark thomas hardy probably the most moat an bod P pro found novel not ellit t of 9 nur r olivin I 1 lime wn wnm born orn june 2 isao 1 I la in 11 earland En Rland irland la in him youth auth hr he ir 1 a 11 il much lack nud and cher shed thed of be conting a poet but he ritu died und nud practiced dicea tun lure ail asmis nw bitant tan to london arch tret winning a prize prise tor for design the do fine proper ion ilea and solidity of truett ile in ahlm hl were alil due to hll his archi tee textural tural training for five b he practiced fitial poetry but when he he tanty ancien ev u he turned to him HI first story atory wilim accepted avio later but upon up the nelce adi lee ut 01 georce meredith he decided not to pub 1 h it him HI firma novel noiel Denie rate ile Ite medlen ealen appeared la in 1471 1871 durlik the next 23 25 yearn he be vu ed 14 novel and ad wo of short hort tor leM under the greed gree Greean eod d tr tre 1472 ile he neve neier murp amed in happy and delicate cut e perfect perfection in of art 1 la thin and him next I 1 not el A pair of blur bloc age 1873 begin 0 o how itself that tia oi of deep alrin which in so no latent teat throughout h r Us d r w rt ams par fir prom ift the Madd log crowd 1 1874 74 wai him A anit popular pu lr ems in it 1 reen lert ard rh power p mer of deplete de a nihill back ere d for bl ch charae armit teni an 0 1 par part I 1 of the agillon aton of him tor th thin l was wa the earllee earl let of 1 what he be railed him hi bove aln 1 of character char her acte acter a d environment which e included th IM betori tarn of the nn tle tive 11 tena T sm of the J Ur bervil I 1 e 11 him and jrie the obscure not net until he wa 4 natt eirthi years old wm was hi him first volume vo lurne of tem ve published and he wast lity sixty four wh when the t part of f h ahi 1 epic I ca poem the startled the literary world everdene eoln Er Ei erdene ln e BEFORE came to Wather Weather hury bury iii ii i nils tr tress 8 of the manor bouse time seemed to have forgotten the village the smock clad shepherds in ill the thatch roofed cottages might hn have e liven iwen us its far a as apply appearances went ant lh their ir own onn ancestors ance of 0 four cen 7 before little happenings seemed tremendous the pulling down of a hoel bovel was ns a stirring event the alie arnn f formation form tl tion of a well late into it a pump shook like a revolution the th stir of the great world without its s romance and passion and traced Y the t h ese ie came to Wen therbur with bathsheba there was nas a new neu to lie ile discussed a great honed boned ruddy rudd faced hepherd oak who beat out n fire that menaced the when tricks and who remained to work vork for kith bath sliewa fanny rann ilomin it servant ser en ant vaut tit disappeared lured by a soldiers rei red out ou t ahme were things ti to sipi tite the heads of the rustics who gathered at nightfall in the old malthouse to drink and to moralize their heads would have wagged even een more had they known that gabriel oak only a few weeks before had been his own onn master and had vainly mainly urged bathsheba Baths lieba then a n penniless waiden ino lilen to marry marri him things that had seemed commonplace enough had and abruptly reversed reer sed their places s in ili the world A man had died in weather bury a dog had driven to death it flock of sheep these were hut but tile inevitable of life and yet the one had suddenly made bathsheba i an heiress the other had driven gabriel out nut upon the to seek work chance or fate hall had kindled a lire fire qi C briel had sted the wheat and the two lives li os abat ila had been flung so far anait were brought fotr agatin the pain of binius lin another othor win ill her whom lit he loved loed would lie be p hut but gabriel even this life here lie he could not see her UP ile knew thai this fiut t happen Bith helia was as yol beautiful wealthy wealth but than those these was is her high spirit slip avas as the alie stuff of which great iiron mothers are mide made slie site was in able to high generation liate it at tri tea darhes feared in shops anil tin loved lit at crises cr lies this spirit however ho mas as to flame more brightly euln fitly later inter after her impetuosity had plunged lier her into inan the crises that were to prove giop her worth in all one DIU mm dan a alone I 1 one was heedless edless lie to lawr ch chavia avii tills till wils vaa wil william liftin Bold goldwood wood no 1 c nearest nc nast ap preach to aristocracy irl trucy i nt itt this ron ronister inter quarter ot of the carlli could hoist boast of she resented lesen ted loing being ignored ruid in ili a moment of thou lit 1 e s sent it him I 1 1 a a tn valentine lentine that fanned into ilkanic passions that goldwood Bold wood hall ili hidden idan from froin the world at the shearing supper held in the great barn gabriel could see that Bol suit was vas prospering piu pro III he was madli in ID love lne she it IKI lonser longer dis igei og eI him nor were then tsiun of it a so sons g he hall had sunar sun NI NII I ler that everli I 1 g when lien tile lie ned against each 0 ther other its as lit at suppers in the early ages aes ol of tile v world orld yet ard he how often ere tiley to recall with a ashud der the words that bathsheba had so eo lightly SUDS sung for his bride a soldier sought her and a winning tongue had lie aad 0 on he be banks of allan water i none was gay as she that very night the soldier came in to her life came as she walked about the farm faim to see that all was secure nr ller skirt was caught as she trod fearfully through a growth of high firs site she heard the mutter of a mans voice A dark revealed rete aled a spur en tangled in iier her skirt a young and ili aleader sl enderman maii clad in ili brilliant hill llant brass and scarlet it flushed flashed like a gleana off romance in gray lays das that scarlet cont coat that was afterwards to he re as so sinister a portent the I 1 he annu was sergeant troy troi a light lighthearted hearted co undrel whose andy real y flattery flatten sounded sweeter in bath bebas he bas ears eais than ill tin stain stammer mering lii longing of gabriel gain lei or 01 goldwood Bol Bold dood wood lie he courted her romantically wooing her with his sword stood n few days das later in a hollow of terns ferns tind and about her flashed his whirling edged weapon apon slashing so close to her that bit bhe could heir hear its imp hiss as it out in the lair her lissome figure leguie and when ie he turned to leue leave hr her ho he stooped swiftly and kissed her on oil lie floe lips gabrini tried to warn bathsheba Bath but ut r she he scorned his so he 11 1 bore re silently with etli hiti his grilc ditc anti lie hp did not tell her that troy hid had be beguiled milled little ranna IF an ny nolin aw nav uy froin Weather vo hury 13 goldwood Lold heart hall had never li before heit beat faster faler nt lit a 4 nonmus ap linch could not so control it hk I 1 s anger aner ile ho shouted upon the nian man who nho had robbed lilai of all that had h d gnadt life joyous ills madness pre that which ile he most tire dreaded a dell 11 etim hellas s marriage to run tile hip hasty ju arriage ise let led swiftly to borrow soi row bici itaho to ti gely troy troy led the wielding ill hi it revel in the 1 harn irn where lie he and ill all the juial jovial arp i re soon hopelessly hope lesl befall lied led gabriel dared not didiuk with them tin TAL creeping things thing of the night mill and tile hie simp hid hall warned liim blin of tho the hearing and in ill the fidelus the high ricks of and harley linly chiv hiv la uncovered vered tile moon vani vanished shod and the wind suli subsided aided on far fai horizons baleful fres fires fluttered uttered ll the mutter of distant thun lir der rolled into a 1 sharp rattle the flash lushes grew bright as he be worked vor ked to prock pet the grain thou Path bathsheba sheba MS with him and theli their laboring forms were outlined in black by h tile green graven annl es of fire that darted venomously Mno earthward art hward As she trembled with fright gabriel fit alt her enrin a ann nil tremble in his great sheltering hind hand she was another mans wife she did not let love lne him but there was mas solace in the ways was of fate that hat had brought her nearer to him bim than when her heart ws free tragedy came when fanny robin cre crept pt home to die ifer her body boda with tint of ir ayr child was hack back to the house bouse where she had worked standing by b the coffin Bith teamed learned that troy tro hid hall never loved loed hr her HS lie he had bad this girl who hid hall horne borne death 1 n th and shame for fol him II 11 ile fled from W anti and word oid was w is hi ought brought to theba thit lie he hid had bein been swept oil out I 1 to a ind and drowned the reasons rolled on oil and sorrow borron fie to fama seriousness thit that added to lir her harin enill I 1 ald ix ila md lie he wn ns rale happy hv by ft promise ough six si years eala inuit SITI pas SIT I before its to celebrate hit his joy hf he 11 planned enned a christnia eve ep party more than tl in a year ear after troy tro ind hall and nd it was uis on till tills night that troy alro choe to rp stirl ding like a i spectre PI ettre aifong v 1011 the merrymakers merry cipri makers As he advanced upon her bathsheba stood like lil e it stricken sti icKen thing hilt half convinced conin cd tint that delusion had lioi hot put but there wits nothing ghostly lioi alv in ili the lie rough coln mand in ind that lint he shouted fit at hr her nor 1101 in ill the brutal grip abat th it lie he took upon her in r irin inn then rhen only did site stir but slit he could not speak A string e I 1 avas livard then a d cafe ian roar some soine eoe wore pre upon troy pitching pitch lii forward fon ird and never to rise again others th er upon standing nj with ith it smoking run gun in ill ills his hann li mils not t until the not next adist lon ion fitter after it was ns known tint that wa is t ti ill lip for foi lle life haq v i 11 I 1 lh helio ahle able to walk alk ns as fill far is as the lie W n street fail I 1 lit hid hall heva inid hard tn ti lir r of 0 fill inen who vin niti ione bomil hel in i i it in lind been alli 1 hi by another who vi ir arid on the lie aluir v i rian ain and nl now word ind had coy cinc tie to owr in i licul gabriel chouest hoi pst sturdy tind lioni hora site ilic hall found tit alu ono IT ill i I 1 tile w who lil not fill fall lur hor I 1 in I 1 j X aved aim ali leil her Is ho IP 11 t hini in ili his hunolt i coll cot inri 0 o n nn it 1 li nii fisl flint lie wa M i going r I 1 ill I 1 were H coll c pling lit lii 11 li allic N III hers such a i thing us that it it iq toil fill urd baird too sno oon i to think of 1 f U k I 1 she ried when wn in he agi im I 1 with etli hor her that it was s 1 tw to uril it in in ill I 1 ll 11 it I 1 billat illat hi it she lud had nt not still thal blit I 1 nt to i oon even i amri own ali n I 1 11 il away div i before could K ali chit ill it alit lie biad li nl so long sought wnm to lie be ills his ali ii llis lives in calin md irid sl ol 01 ill 1 nii been so close cloi thu that lifter after tho tt iliin the rustics at lil aly oi Y of if speaking nf if in illy wife ir the agreed that hint he dil did not say sn t lle nord oi li us its chillingly wa n ellit a dinall in in win to had lieen been married twenty tnt years hlll lilt but tint that that improvement would kulil cill istir I 1 gabriel laughed luul nd aloud nt lit t ali it t ill and bathsheba did not now latigo so nil arvall ily hi us lind had been her avont lart she IK cattle upon the simple fulk of changeless bury copyright 1919 by tho the pot post pul 11 alili t co the rhe boston post in ili tl ti c e united Xing kingdom dom the 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