Thomas Hardy

Name: Jude the Obscure — Part 3, Chapter 3
Author: Thomas Hardy

Jude the Obscure — Part 3, Chapter 3 (1895)

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“Jude the Obscure — Part 3, Chapter 3”, published in 1895, is a work by Thomas Hardy. It explores elements such as Jude, Sue and dormitory.

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Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure — Part 3, Chapter 3 (1895)

“ As Sue had not brought disgrace upon the school by drowning herself, the matron began to speak superciliously of her, and to express gladness that she was gone.
On the self-same evening Jude sat in his lodgings by the Close Gate. Often at this hour after dusk he would enter the silent Close, and stand opposite the house that contained Sue, and watch the shadows of the girls' heads passing to and fro upon the blinds, and wish he had nothing else to do but to sit reading and learning all day what many of the thoughtless inmates despised. ”

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Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure — Part 3, Chapter 3 (1895)

“ He rose and gently lifted the sash.
"Jude!" (from below) .
"Sue!"
"Yes—it is! Can I come up without being seen?"
"Oh yes!"
"Then don't come down. Shut the window."
Jude waited, knowing that she could enter easily enough, the front door being opened merely by a knob which anybody could turn, as in most old country towns. He palpitated at the thought that she had fled to him in her trouble as he had fled to her in his. What counterparts they were! He unlatched the door of his room, heard a stealthy rustle on the dark stairs, and in a moment she appeared in the light of his lamp. ”

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Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure — Part 3, Chapter 3 (1895)

“ Half an hour later they all lay in their cubicles, their tender feminine faces upturned to the flaring gas-jets which at intervals stretched down the long dormitories, every face bearing the legend "The Weaker" upon it, as the penalty of the sex wherein they were moulded, which by no possible exertion of their willing hearts and abilities could be made strong while the inexorable laws of nature remain what they are. ”

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Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure — Part 3, Chapter 3 (1895)

“ They are only a woman's clothes—sexless cloth and linen... I wish I didn't feel so ill and sick! Will you dry my clothes now? Please do, Jude, and I'll get a lodging by and by. It is not late yet."
"No, you shan't, if you are ill. You must stay here. Dear, dear Sue, what can I get for you?"
"I don't know! I can't help shivering. I wish I could get warm." Jude put on her his great-coat in addition, and then ran out to the nearest public-house, whence he returned with a little bottle in his hand. ”

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Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure — Part 3, Chapter 3 (1895)

“ After prayers they went in to supper, and every girl's thought was, Where is Sue Bridehead? Some of the students, who had seen Jude from the window, felt that they would not mind risking her punishment for the pleasure of being kissed by such a kindly-faced young men. ”

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Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure — Part 3, Chapter 3 (1895)

“ When they had gone downstairs they found that she did not follow them into the dining-hall to breakfast, and they then learnt that she had been severely reprimanded, and ordered to a solitary room for a week, there to be confined, and take her meals, and do all her reading.
At this the seventy murmured, the sentence being, they thought, too severe. A round robin was prepared and sent in to the principal, asking for a remission of Sue's punishment. No notice was taken. Towards evening, when the geography mistress began dictating her subject, the girls in the class sat with folded arms. ”

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Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure — Part 3, Chapter 3 (1895)

“ They sat in the large school-room of the establishment on the evening previously described, and word was passed round that Sue Bridehead had not come in at closing-time.
"She went out with her young man," said a second-year's student, who knew about young men. "And Miss Traceley saw her at the station with him. She'll have it hot when she does come." ”

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Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure — Part 3, Chapter 3 (1895)

“ The seventy young women, of ages varying in the main from nineteen to one-and-twenty, though several were older, who at this date filled the species of nunnery known as the Training-School at Melchester, formed a very mixed community, which included the daughters of mechanics, curates, surgeons, shopkeepers, farmers, dairy-men, soldiers, sailors, and villagers. ”

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Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure — Part 3, Chapter 3 (1895)

“ Sue's table had a moderate show, two men in their filigree and velvet frames standing together beside her looking-glass.
"Who are these men—did she ever say?" asked the mistress. "Strictly speaking, relations' portraits only are allowed on these tables, you know."
"One—the middle-aged man," said a student in the next bed—"is the schoolmaster she served under—Mr. ”

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