A Pair of Blue Eyes

A Pair of Blue Eyes

Language: English

Pages: 356

ISBN: B0083ZC4R6

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also wrote out portions of the manuscript. Although the explanations Millgate puts forward – that Hardy was being defiantly honest in the face of the Gifford family’s hostility and Emma Gifford defiantly loyal in her determination to marry ‘down’ – may not seem entirely adequate, it is not easy to offer alternatives.29 What does seem clear is that her involvement in A Pair of Blue Eyes was at the most fundamental level a direct expression of her encouragement of her fiancé’s commitment to the

we go below?’ said Knight, seeing that the deck was nearly deserted. ‘No,’ she said. ‘If you will kindly get me a rug from Mrs. Swancourt, I should like, if you don’t mind, to stay here.’ She had recently fancied Mrs. Jethway might be a first-class passenger, and dreaded meeting her by accident. Knight appeared with the rug, and they sat down behind a weather-cloth on the windward side, just as the two red eyes of the Needles glared upon them from the gloom, their pointed summits rising like

and saw her again – he saw her for weeks and months. He withdrew his eyes from the scene, swept his hand across them, as if to brush away the sight, breathed a low groan, and went on. CHAPTER VIII. ‘And wilt thou leave me thus? – say nay – say nay!’1 The scene shifts to Knight’s chambers in Bede’s Inn. It was late in the evening of the day following his departure from Endelstow. A drizzling rain descended upon the metropolis, forming a humid and dreary halo over every well-lighted street. The

them, in a form of which he in general approved, the version that his early critics reacted to. It reveals Hardy as he first dawned upon the public and shows how his writing (including the creation of Wessex) developed, partly in response to differing climates of opinion in the 1870s, 1880s and early 1890s. In keeping with these general aims, the edition will reproduce all contemporary illustrations where the originals were line drawings. In addition for all texts which were illustrated,

to speak privately to her father. Thence she wandered into all the nooks around the place from which the sound seemed to proceed – among the huge laurestines, about the tufts of pampas-grasses, amid the variegated hollies, under the weeping wych-elm – nobody was there. Returning indoors she called, ‘Unity.’ ‘She is gone to her aunt’s to spend the evening,’ said Mr. Swancourt, thrusting his head out of his study-door, and letting the light of his candles stream upon Elfride’s face – less

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