Thomas Hardy

Name: The Mayor of Casterbridge — Chapter 41
Author: Thomas Hardy

The Mayor of Casterbridge — Chapter 41 (1886)

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“The Mayor of Casterbridge — Chapter 41”, published in 1886, is a work by Thomas Hardy. It explores elements such as Newson, Elizabeth-Jane and Henchard.

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Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge — Chapter 41 (1886)

“ This reflection, constantly repeated by Henchard to himself, accompanied him everywhere through the day. His mood was no longer that of the rebellious, ironical, reckless misadventurer; but the leaden gloom of one who has lost all that can make life interesting, or even tolerable. There would remain nobody for him to be proud of, nobody to fortify him; for Elizabeth-Jane would soon be but as a stranger, and worse. Susan, Farfrae, Lucetta, Elizabeth—all had gone from him, one after one, either by his fault or by his misfortune. ”

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Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge — Chapter 41 (1886)

“ Then Henchard, scarcely believing the evidence of his senses, rose from his seat amazed at what he had done. It had been the impulse of a moment. The regard he had lately acquired for Elizabeth, the new-sprung hope of his loneliness that she would be to him a daughter of whom he could feel as proud as of the actual daughter she still believed herself to be, had been stimulated by the unexpected coming of Newson to a greedy exclusiveness in relation to her; so that the sudden prospect of her loss had caused him to speak mad lies like a child, in pure mockery of consequences. ”

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Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge — Chapter 41 (1886)

“ He watched the distant highway expecting to see Newson return on foot, enlightened and indignant, to claim his child. But no figure appeared. Possibly he had spoken to nobody on the coach, but buried his grief in his own heart.
His grief!—what was it, after all, to that which he, Henchard, would feel at the loss of her? Newson's affection cooled by years, could not equal his who had been constantly in her presence. And thus his jealous soul speciously argued to excuse the separation of father and child. ”

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Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge — Chapter 41 (1886)

“ Newson might converse with his fellow-travellers, some of whom might be Casterbridge people; and the trick would be discovered.
This probability threw Henchard into a defensive attitude, and instead of considering how best to right the wrong, and acquaint Elizabeth's father with the truth at once, he bethought himself of ways to keep the position he had accidentally won. Towards the young woman herself his affection grew more jealously strong with each new hazard to which his claim to her was exposed. ”

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Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge — Chapter 41 (1886)

“ I cannot even allow that I'm the man you met then. I was not in my senses, and a man's senses are himself."
"We were young and thoughtless," said Newson. "However, I've come to mend matters rather than open arguments. ”

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Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge — Chapter 41 (1886)

“ I had no sooner lain down than I napped, though I did not mean to. I wonder I did not dream about poor Mrs. Farfrae, after thinking of her so; but I did not. How strange it is that we do not often dream of latest events, absorbing as they may be. ”

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Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge — Chapter 41 (1886)

“ But after night-fall human beings were seldom found going that way, the path leading only to a deep reach of the stream called Blackwater, and the passage being dangerous.
Henchard, however, leaving the town by the east road, proceeded to the second, or stone bridge, and thence struck into this path of solitude, following its course beside the stream till the dark shapes of the Ten Hatches cut the sheen thrown upon the river by the weak lustre that still lingered in the west. In a second or two he stood beside the weir-hole where the water was at its deepest. ”

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Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge — Chapter 41 (1886)

“ Elizabeth-Jane heard him say, "Who is such a reprobate as I! And yet it seems that even I be in Somebody's hand!" ”

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