Thomas Hardy

Name: The Mayor of Casterbridge — Chapter 7
Author: Thomas Hardy

The Mayor of Casterbridge — Chapter 7 (1886)

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“The Mayor of Casterbridge — Chapter 7”, published in 1886, is a work by Thomas Hardy. It explores elements such as Elizabeth-Jane, Henchard and tray.

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Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge — Chapter 7 (1886)

“ Henchard is too high for us to make ourselves known to him, I much fear; so we've only our own pockets to depend on."
"I know what I'll do," said Elizabeth-Jane after an interval of waiting, during which their needs seemed quite forgotten under the press of business below. And leaving the room, she descended the stairs and penetrated to the bar.
If there was one good thing more than another which characterized this single-hearted girl it was a willingness to sacrifice her personal comfort and dignity to the common weal. ”

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Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge — Chapter 7 (1886)

“ Says I to myself, 'He knows who I am, and recommends himself by this stroke.' And yet it turns out, after all, that you are not the man who answered my advertisement, but a stranger!"
"Ay, ay; that's so," said the young man.
Henchard again suspended his words, and then his voice came thoughtfully: "Your forehead, Farfrae, is something like my poor brother's—now dead and gone; and the nose, too, isn't unlike his. You must be, what—five foot nine, I reckon? I am six foot one and a half out of my shoes. But what of that? In my business, 'tis true that strength and bustle build up a firm. ”

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Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge — Chapter 7 (1886)

“ Elizabeth-Jane, though hungry, willingly postponed serving herself awhile, and applied to the cook in the kitchen whence she brought forth the tray of supper viands, and proceeded with it upstairs to the apartment indicated. The accommodation of the Three Mariners was far from spacious, despite the fair area of ground it covered. The room demanded by intrusive beams and rafters, partitions, passages, staircases, disused ovens, settles, and four-posters, left comparatively small quarters for human beings. ”

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Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge — Chapter 7 (1886)

“ Nature won't stand so much as that, but heere you go a great way towards it. Well, sir, that's the process, I don't value it, for it can be but of little use in countries where the weather is more settled than in ours; and I'll be only too glad if it's of service to you."
"But hearken to me," pleaded Henchard. "My business you know, is in corn and in hay, but I was brought up as a hay-trusser simply, and hay is what I understand best though I now do more in corn than in the other. ”

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Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge — Chapter 7 (1886)

“ If you'll accept the place, you shall manage the corn branch entirely, and receive a commission in addition to salary."
"You're liberal—very liberal, but no, no—I cannet!" the young man still replied, with some distress in his accents.
"So be it!" said Henchard conclusively. "Now—to change the subject—one good turn deserves another; don't stay to finish that miserable supper. Come to my house, I can find something better for 'ee than cold ham and ale." ”

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Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge — Chapter 7 (1886)

“ Well, before I go, let me ask this: Though you are not the young man I thought you were, what's the difference? Can't ye stay just the same? Have you really made up your mind about this American notion? ”

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Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge — Chapter 7 (1886)

“ My name is Henchard, ha'n't you replied to an advertisement for a corn-factor's manager that I put into the paper—ha'n't you come here to see me about it?"
"No," said the Scotchman, with some surprise.
"Surely you are the man," went on Henchard insistingly, "who arranged to come and see me? ”

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Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge — Chapter 7 (1886)

“ The tremors in Susan Henchard's tone might have led any person but one so perfectly unsuspicious of the truth as the girl was, to surmise some closer connection than the admitted simple kinship as a means of accounting for them.
Two men were indeed talking in the adjoining chamber, the young Scotchman and Henchard, who, having entered the inn while Elizabeth-Jane was in the kitchen waiting for the supper, had been deferentially conducted upstairs by host Stannidge himself. The girl noiselessly laid out their little meal, and beckoned to her mother to join her, which Mrs. ”

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