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1,193	41445_volume_2,_chapter_15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Now having finished the discussion of his "protectors," Frankenstein's monster describes three books that he finds near the cottage and decides to read. Usually, he explains, these books only serve to make him sink "into the lowest dejection. He is especially struck by what he reads about Adam in Paradise Lost. Though ...	[ "\"Such was the history of my beloved cottagers. It impressed me deeply. I\nlearned, from the views of social life which it developed, to admire\ntheir virtues, and to deprecate the vices of mankind.", "\"As yet I looked upon crime as a distant evil; benevolence and\ngenerosity were ever present before me, inciti...
1,194	41445_volume_2,_chapter_16	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Chapter 16 marks a stark change in the monster's attitude toward men. No longer does he try to mold himself into human society; instead, he decides to take out his anger on mankind. He explains, "There was non among the myriads of men that existed who would pity or assist me; and should I feel kindness towards my enemi...	[ "\"Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not\nextinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed? I\nknow not; despair had not yet taken possession of me; my feelings were\nthose of rage and revenge. I could with pleasure have destroyed the\ncottage and its inhabitant...
1,195	41445_volume_3,_chapter_18	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Victor loathes the thought of creating another monster, and so he drags his feet. It's at this time, also, that his father relates his desire for Victor and Elizabeth to soon marry. Victor says that he loves Elizabeth very much and wants to marry her eventually, but that he has to return to England for awhile beforehan...	[ "Day after day, week after week, passed away on my return to Geneva; and I could not collect the courage to recommence my work. I feared the vengeance of the disappointed fiend, yet I was unable to overcome my repugnance to the task which was enjoined me. I found that I could not compose a female without again devo...
1,196	41445_volume_3,_chapter_19	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Now in London with Clerval, Victor tries to relax, but finds it impossible. For several months, Frankenstein puts off the task in hand and travels around England with Clerval instead. Eventually, however, he tells his best friend to leave him alone for a few weeks. Then, in solitude, Victor begins the process of creati...	[ "London was our present point of rest; we determined to remain several\nmonths in this wonderful and celebrated city. Clerval desired the\nintercourse of the men of genius and talent who flourished at this time;\nbut this was with me a secondary object; I was principally occupied with\nthe means of obtaining the in...
1,197	41445_volume_3,_chapter_20	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Well into the process of building another monster, Victor suddenly realizes that he cannot be guaranteed that this new being that he is creating will agree to live in exile in South America. More troubling is the idea that the two monsters will produce a race of their own, which will roam the earth, terrorizing future ...	[ "I sat one evening in my laboratory; the sun had set, and the moon was\njust rising from the sea; I had not sufficient light for my employment,\nand I remained idle, in a pause of consideration of whether I should\nleave my labour for the night, or hasten its conclusion by an\nunremitting attention to it. As I sat,...
1,198	41445_volume_3,_chapter_21	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Before the court, Victor learns that he is a suspect in the recent murder of a young man. After seeing the corpse, Frankenstein is horrified to discover that the victim is Henry Clerval. After seeing the black marks on his neck, Victor is convinced that his monster is to blame. He spends three months in jail before he ...	[ "I was soon introduced into the presence of the magistrate, an old\nbenevolent man, with calm and mild manners. He looked upon me, however,\nwith some degree of severity; and then, turning towards my conductors,\nhe asked who appeared as witnesses on this occasion.", "About half a dozen men came forward; and one ...
1,199	41445_volume_3,_chapter_22	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Still on the journey home, Victor continues to feel very sick. Though his father attributes it to his delirium, Victor lets burst, "William, Justine, and Henry-they all died by my hands. Frankenstein is very earnest in his belief that he is the cause of their deaths, and he is even more horrified by the thought that th...	[ "We had resolved not to go to London, but to cross the country to\nPortsmouth, and thence to embark for Havre. I preferred this plan\nprincipally because I dreaded to see again those places in which I had\nenjoyed a few moments of tranquillity with my beloved Clerval. I thought\nwith horror of seeing again those pe...
1,200	41445_volume_3,_chapter_23	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On the wedding night, everything seems to be going according to plan. Victor even brings along a pistol in case he sees his devilish nemesis. Soon, however, Frankenstein hears a blood-curdling scream coming from the room where his new wife is sleeping. When he enters, she is dead-strangled to death. Victor returns to G...	[ "It was eight o'clock when we landed; we walked for a short time on the\nshore, enjoying the transitory light, and then retired to the inn, and\ncontemplated the lovely scene of waters, woods, and mountains, obscured\nin darkness, yet still displaying their black outlines.", "The wind, which had fallen in the sou...
1,201	41445_volume_3,_chapter_24	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In Shelley's final chapter, Victor leaves Geneva in pursuit of the monster. He resolves to kill the beast once and for all, if it's the last thing he does. The pursuit goes on for days and days, until finally they are near the north pole. Both Frankenstein and his monster employ the use of dog-sleds to traverse the icy...	[ "My present situation was one in which all voluntary thought was\nswallowed up and lost. I was hurried away by fury; revenge alone endowed\nme with strength and composure; it modelled my feelings, and allowed me\nto be calculating and calm, at periods when otherwise delirium or death\nwould have been my portion.", ...
1,207	153_chapters_1-2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The schoolmaster, Mr. Phillotson, is preparing to leave the village of Marygreen in Wessex. He is bound for Christminster, where he intends to take a university degree and then be ordained. He is helped in his preparation by Jude Fawley, an eleven-year-old boy who has been his student and who admires him. Phillotson ha...	[ "The schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everybody seemed sorry.\nThe miller at Cresscombe lent him the small white tilted cart and\nhorse to carry his goods to the city of his destination, about twenty\nmiles off, such a vehicle proving of quite sufficient size for the\ndeparting teacher's effects. For the ...
1,208	153_chapters_3-4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	At first when Jude reaches a high point outside of town, the "ridge-track," he cannot see Cbristminster; nor can he see it from the roof of a barn nearby, locally called the Brown House. He waits patiently, prays for the visibility to improve, and finally just before sunset does see light reflected from buildings in th...	[ "Not a soul was visible on the hedgeless highway, or on either side of\nit, and the white road seemed to ascend and diminish till it joined\nthe sky. At the very top it was crossed at right angles by a green\n\"ridgeway\"--the Ickneild Street and original Roman road through the\ndistrict. This ancient track ran e...
1,209	153_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	During the next few years Jude tries to educate himself by reading Latin and some Greek with the use of a dictionary. This study takes place as he drives the bakery wagon for his aunt's expanding business, paying more attention to his reading than to where he is going or with whom he is supposed to do business. One day...	[ "During the three or four succeeding years a quaint and singular\nvehicle might have been discerned moving along the lanes and by-roads\nnear Marygreen, driven in a quaint and singular way.", "In the course of a month or two after the receipt of the books\nJude had grown callous to the shabby trick played him by ...
1,210	153_chapters_6-8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	One weekend as he walks home from Alfredston, Jude makes an accounting of what he has accomplished to the age of nineteen. He believes he has some fluency in Latin and Greek, both Homeric and Biblical; he has studied some mathematics, theology, and history. What he does not yet know he will learn at Christminster, wher...	[ "At this memorable date of his life he was, one Saturday, returning\nfrom Alfredston to Marygreen about three o'clock in the afternoon.\nIt was fine, warm, and soft summer weather, and he walked with his\ntools at his back, his little chisels clinking faintly against the\nlarger ones in his basket. It being the en...
1,211	153_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Two months later, Arabella tells Jude she is pregnant, and though he has said it is time for him to leave for Christminster he promises to marry her, speaking of his aspirations as impossible dreams. They marry and go to live in a cottage alongside the road between the Brown House and Marygreen. Jude quickly discovers ...	[ "It was some two months later in the year, and the pair had met\nconstantly during the interval. Arabella seemed dissatisfied; she\nwas always imagining, and waiting, and wondering.", "One day she met the itinerant Vilbert. She, like all the cottagers\nthereabout, knew the quack well, and she began telling him ...
1,212	153_chapter_10-11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When the pig killer doesn't come to kill the pig Jude and Arabella have been fattening, Jude is forced to do the job. He wants to kill it quickly so as to be merciful, but Arabella insists it should slowly bleed to death so that the meat will be better. Jude sticks the pig deeply and it bleeds quickly, much to Arabella...	[ "The time arrived for killing the pig which Jude and his wife had\nfattened in their sty during the autumn months, and the butchering\nwas timed to take place as soon as it was light in the morning, so\nthat Jude might get to Alfredston without losing more than a quarter\nof a day.", "The night had seemed strange...
1,213	153_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Three years later, his apprenticeship ended, Jude is on his way to Christminster. Not only have his old aspirations caused him to come; but he has seen a photograph of his cousin Sue Bridehead and has been told by his aunt that the girl lives in the city. He arrives at sunset, finds himself lodgings in an inexpensive s...	[ "The next noteworthy move in Jude's life was that in which he appeared\ngliding steadily onward through a dusky landscape of some three\nyears' later leafage than had graced his courtship of Arabella,\nand the disruption of his coarse conjugal life with her. He was\nwalking towards Christminster City, at a point a...
1,214	153_chapters_2-3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jude's first concern is a job, though his working is to be done only as a way of supporting himself until he can enter the university. He goes to apply to a stonemason recommended by his employer in Alfredston. While there, he notices that the workmen are doing only copying and patching, not realizing that medieval bui...	[ "Necessary meditations on the actual, including the mean\nbread-and-cheese question, dissipated the phantasmal for a while, and\ncompelled Jude to smother high thinkings under immediate needs. He\nhad to get up, and seek for work, manual work; the only kind deemed\nby many of its professors to be work at all.", ...
1,215	153_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Once more Jude has the opportunity to reveal himself to Sue but does not, still troubled by the legitimacy of his interest in her. He wants to pray to be delivered from temptation, but his every desire is precisely to be so tempted. Finally, it occurs that Sue looks him up at work, he is not there at the time, she send...	[ "He was a handy man at his trade, an all-round man, as artizans in\ncountry-towns are apt to be. In London the man who carves the boss\nor knob of leafage declines to cut the fragment of moulding which\nmerges in that leafage, as if it were a degradation to do the second\nhalf of one whole. When there was not muc...
1,216	153_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Phillotson's interest in Sue quickly becomes more than that of a master in a new teacher. Though he is impressed by her ability as a teacher, he is also attracted to her as a person. On the occasion of their taking the pupils to Christminster to see a model of Jerusalem, Sue questions the authenticity of the reproducti...	[ "The schoolmaster sat in his homely dwelling attached to the school,\nboth being modern erections; and he looked across the way at the old\nhouse in which his teacher Sue had a lodging. The arrangement had\nbeen concluded very quickly. A pupil-teacher who was to have been\ntransferred to Mr. Phillotson's school h...
1,217	153_chapters_6-7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The following Sunday Jude goes to Marygreen to visit his aunt, who is ill. When he reveals he has been seeing Sue the old woman warns him off, and both she and her companion, who looks after her, recall incidents revealing the fact that people in the town thought of Sue as a unique, sometimes unconventional, child. The...	[ "Jude's old and embittered aunt lay unwell at Marygreen, and on the\nfollowing Sunday he went to see her--a visit which was the result of\na victorious struggle against his inclination to turn aside to the\nvillage of Lumsdon and obtain a miserable interview with his cousin,\nin which the word nearest his heart cou...
1,218	153_chapters_1-2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jude believes that his original plan may have come more from ambition than a desire to serve and that his entering the church as a licentiate will enable him both to do good and to purge himself of sin. He does nothing about his new idea until he hears from Sue that she is going to Melchester to a training college, and...	[ "It was a new idea--the ecclesiastical and altruistic life as distinct\nfrom the intellectual and emulative life. A man could preach and\ndo good to his fellow-creatures without taking double-firsts in the\nschools of Christminster, or having anything but ordinary knowledge.\nThe old fancy which had led on to the ...
1,219	153_chapters_3-5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	At the training college the previous evening there is a good deal of talk about Sue and her young man. The year before a student was seduced by a young man who claimed to be the girl's cousin, so there is some doubt about the fact that Jude is supposed to be Sue's cousin. After Sue does come in the next morning, the gi...	[ "The seventy young women, of ages varying in the main from nineteen to\none-and-twenty, though several were older, who at this date filled\nthe species of nunnery known as the Training-School at Melchester,\nformed a very mixed community, which included the daughters of\nmechanics, curates, surgeons, shopkeepers, f...
1,220	153_chapters_6-7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In his new position at Shaston Phillotson, though pursuing his work at the school as well as his interest in antiquities, thinks mostly of Sue: saving money to support his future marriage, rereading her letters, looking at photographs of her. Though for a while he has honored Sue's desire that he not visit her frequent...	[ "Meanwhile a middle-aged man was dreaming a dream of great beauty\nconcerning the writer of the above letter. He was Richard\nPhillotson, who had recently removed from the mixed village school at\nLumsdon near Christminster, to undertake a large boys' school in his\nnative town of Shaston, which stood on a hill si...
1,221	153_chapters_8-9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	With Sue gone, Jude finds Melchester oppressive. News that his aunt is ill and an offer from his former employer at Christminster give him excuse to leave. Finding his aunt very ill indeed, he writes to Sue, suggesting she come and offering to meet her on his way back from Christminster. He finds it a city of ghosts an...	[ "Jude wondered if she had really left her handkerchief behind; or\nwhether it were that she had miserably wished to tell him of a love\nthat at the last moment she could not bring herself to express.", "He could not stay in his silent lodging when they were gone, and\nfearing that he might be tempted to drown his...
1,222	153_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Back at Melchester, Jude tries to fight against the temptation to visit Sue at Shaston and tries desperately to pursue his study for the ministry. Enlarging his interest in sacred music and eventually joining a choir in a village church nearby, he is greatly moved by a new hymn and thinks that the composer of it must b...	[ "Jude returned to Melchester, which had the questionable\nrecommendation of being only a dozen and a half miles from his Sue's\nnow permanent residence. At first he felt that this nearness was a\ndistinct reason for not going southward at all; but Christminster\nwas too sad a place to bear, while the proximity of ...
1,223	153_chapters_1-2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When Jude visits Sue at Shaston, he sits playing his favorite hymn while waiting for her to come in. Her being moved by it causes him to say that at heart they are alike, but Sue counters by saying they are, however, not alike "at head." When they argue over whether they can still be friends, Jude calls her a flirt; sh...	[ "\"Whoso prefers either Matrimony or other Ordinance before\nthe Good of Man and the plain Exigence of Charity, let\nhim profess Papist, or Protestant, or what he will, he\nis no better than a Pharisee.\"--J. MILTON.", "Shaston, the ancient British Palladour,", "From whose foundation first such strange reports\...
1,224	153_chapters_3-4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When Sue leaves, she and Jude kiss passionately; reflecting on it, Jude sees it as a sign of his alienation from the ministry, an indication of his being unfit to profess the conventional beliefs. He thinks of the fact that Arabella hindered his aspirations to knowledge and now Sue has interfered with his desire to ent...	[ "Sue's distressful confession recurred to Jude's mind all the night as\nbeing a sorrow indeed.", "The morning after, when it was time for her to go, the neighbours saw\nher companion and herself disappearing on foot down the hill path\nwhich led into the lonely road to Alfredston. An hour passed before\nhe retur...
1,225	153_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jude meets Sue at Melchester and they go on to Aldbrickham. He tells her Arabella has written to ask him to divorce her so she can remarry her Australian husband; Jude is therefore free. When he tells Sue he has reserved a room for them at a hotel, she protests she can't be intimate with him yet and tries to defend her...	[ "Four-and-twenty hours before this time Sue had written the following\nnote to Jude:", "It is as I told you; and I am leaving to-morrow evening.\n Richard and I thought it could be done with less\n obtrusiveness after dark. I feel rather frightened, and\n therefore ask you to be sure you are on the Melches...
1,226	153_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When Sue does not return to Phillotson and he does not hesitate to tell the school authorities why, he is asked to resign, refuses to do so, and is dismissed. In the public meeting he calls to defend himself, most townspeople are against him, but some few are for him. The scuffle that results turns the meeting into a b...	[ "In returning to his native town of Shaston as schoolmaster Phillotson\nhad won the interest and awakened the memories of the inhabitants,\nwho, though they did not honour him for his miscellaneous acquirements\nas he would have been honoured elsewhere, retained for him a sincere\nregard. When, shortly after his a...
1,227	153_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A year later at Aldbrickham, Jude and Sue are still living as they were. With Phillotson's divorce from Sue now final, they both are free, Jude's divorce from Arabella having become final some time before. When Jude brings up the subject of their marrying, Sue says she would rather they go on as lovers and avoid the op...	[ "How Gillingham's doubts were disposed of will most quickly appear by\npassing over the series of dreary months and incidents that followed\nthe events of the last chapter, and coming on to a Sunday in the\nFebruary of the year following.", "Sue and Jude were living in Aldbrickham, in precisely the same\nrelation...
1,228	153_chapters_2-3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When Arabella calls on Jude and Sue, he discovers she is not married; she tells him that she has something important to discuss with him. When Sue urges him not to go out with Arabella because she isn't his wife, Jude replies that neither is Sue. When he returns soon, not having found Arabella in the street, Sue again ...	[ "It was an evening at the end of the month, and Jude had just returned\nhome from hearing a lecture on ancient history in the public hall not\nfar off. When he entered, Sue, who had been keeping indoors during\nhis absence, laid out supper for him. Contrary to custom she did not\nspeak. Jude had taken up some il...
1,229	153_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The morning after the boy arrives, Jude and Sue discover he is called Little Father Time because, as he says, he looks so old. Jude and Sue give notice of their wedding and invite Mrs. Edlin, the widow who took care of his aunt, to come. The night before they are to marry, Mrs. Edlin tells a tale about a man hanged nea...	[ "Their next and second attempt thereat was more deliberately made,\nthough it was begun on the morning following the singular child's\narrival at their home.", "Him they found to be in the habit of sitting silent, his quaint and\nweird face set, and his eyes resting on things they did not see in\nthe substantial ...
1,230	153_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	At the agricultural show at Stoke-Barehills Arabella, arriving with her husband, sees Jude, Sue, and the boy and follows after them, commenting on them to Cartlett. Leaving him to go his own way, Arabella encounters a girl friend and then Physician Vilbert. They follow Jude and Sue to the art department, where the coup...	[ "The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him\nto express his personal views upon the grave controversy above given.\nThat the twain were happy--between their times of sadness--was\nindubitable. And when the unexpected apparition of Jude's child\nin the house had shown itself to be no such d...
1,231	153_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	To stop the talk about them, Jude and Sue go off to London for a few days as if to marry, but the talk continues and Jude thinks they should move to where they are unknown. Several incidents confirm this idea: Jude loses a job at a church when, because of Sue's presence there, he is recognized and the rumors about them...	[ "The unnoticed lives that the pair had hitherto led began, from the\nday of the suspended wedding onwards, to be observed and discussed by\nother persons than Arabella. The society of Spring Street and the\nneighbourhood generally did not understand, and probably could not\nhave been made to understand, Sue and Ju...
1,232	153_chapters_7-8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Two and a half years pass, and Jude and Sue are living at Kennetbridge, not far from Marygreen, Jude having worked in many places over the years and still unchanged in his refusal to work on churches. During the time of the spring fair, Arabella comes with her friend Anny for the dedication of a new chapel and encounte...	[ "From that week Jude Fawley and Sue walked no more in the town of\nAldbrickham.", "Whither they had gone nobody knew, chiefly because nobody cared\nto know. Any one sufficiently curious to trace the steps of such\nan obscure pair might have discovered without great trouble that\nthey had taken advantage of his a...
1,233	153_chapters_1-2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jude has planned it so they arrive on Remembrance Day , and instead of looking for lodgings he wants to view the festivities. But when he sees young men from the colleges, he feels it will be "Humiliation Day" for him. He passes the building from which he looked out over the colleges and decided he would never achieve ...	[ "On their arrival the station was lively with straw-hatted young men,\nwelcoming young girls who bore a remarkable family likeness to their\nwelcomers, and who were dressed up in the brightest and lightest of\nraiment.", "\"The place seems gay,\" said Sue. \"Why--it is Remembrance\nDay!--Jude--how sly of you--yo...
1,234	153_chapters_3-4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	During her convalescence Sue says she is beaten and must conform, and Jude asserts he belongs to "that vast band of men shunned by the virtuous-the men called seducers." She still feels she belongs to Phillotson. Jude is aware of the fact that he and Sue are going in opposite directions: she is returning to the convent...	[ "Sue was convalescent, though she had hoped for death, and Jude had\nagain obtained work at his old trade. They were in other lodgings\nnow, in the direction of Beersheba, and not far from the Church of\nCeremonies--Saint Silas.", "They would sit silent, more bodeful of the direct antagonism of\nthings than of t...
1,235	153_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Sue goes to Marygreen and Phillotson's house, and when Phillotson greets her with a kiss she shrinks from him. The wedding is to be the next day, and she is to stay with Mrs. Edlin. When Sue refuses to wear an attractive nightgown, indeed destroys it, Mrs. Edlin tells her she still loves Jude and shouldn't marry Phillo...	[ "The next afternoon the familiar Christminster fog still hung over all\nthings. Sue's slim shape was only just discernible going towards the\nstation.", "Jude had no heart to go to his work that day. Neither could he go\nanywhere in the direction by which she would be likely to pass.\nHe went in an opposite one...
1,236	153_chapters_6-7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In Christminster Arabella comes to Jude's lodgings, saying she has nowhere to go and asking him to take her in. Eventually he does give her a place to sleep, and when she asks him if he knows of the wedding, he is irritable about the subject. Another day, she offers to find out if the wedding actually took place when s...	[ "The place was the door of Jude's lodging in the out-skirts of\nChristminster--far from the precincts of St. Silas' where he had\nformerly lived, which saddened him to sickness. The rain was coming\ndown. A woman in shabby black stood on the doorstep talking to Jude,\nwho held the door in his hand.", "\"I am lo...
1,237	153_chapters_8-9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jude and Arabella are as incompatible now as they were the first time they were married, she complaining about his always being ill and he wishing he were dead. When Jude asks her to write to Sue for him, inviting her to visit, Arabella insults Sue, and he is violent with her but admits he couldn't kill her. Convinced ...	[ "Michaelmas came and passed, and Jude and his wife, who had lived but\na short time in her father's house after their remarriage, were in\nlodgings on the top floor of a dwelling nearer to the centre of the\ncity.", "He had done a few days' work during the two or three months since\nthe event, but his health had ...
1,238	153_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jude often muses on "the defeat of his early aims" and thinks of the possible changes in the colleges to benefit people like himself. Though he tells Arabella he doesn't want Sue to know about him, when Mrs. Edlin calls he asks about Sue and is startled to discover she is now sharing her husband's bed. He talks about t...	[ "Despite himself Jude recovered somewhat, and worked at his trade for\nseveral weeks. After Christmas, however, he broke down again.", "With the money he had earned he shifted his lodgings to a yet more\ncentral part of the town. But Arabella saw that he was not likely\nto do much work for a long while, and was...
1,239	153_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On Remembrance Day Arabella, impatient to be off to the festivities, leaves Jude asleep and alone. He awakens, asks for water, recognizes what holiday it is, and repeats some verses from Job. Later, Arabella breaks away long enough to look in on Jude, who she discovers is dead. She rejoins the holiday, eventually meeti...	[ "The last pages to which the chronicler of these lives would ask the\nreader's attention are concerned with the scene in and out of Jude's\nbedroom when leafy summer came round again.", "His face was now so thin that his old friends would hardly have known\nhim. It was afternoon, and Arabella was at the looking-...
1,240	153_part_1,_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The novel opens with the departure of Mr. Phillotson, the schoolmaster, from the village of Marygreen in Wessex. He is packing his things onto a small cart and heading for the city of Christminster, twenty miles away. He is helped by his young, earnest student, eleven-year-old Jude Fawley, who admires him tremendously....	[ "The schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everybody seemed sorry.\nThe miller at Cresscombe lent him the small white tilted cart and\nhorse to carry his goods to the city of his destination, about twenty\nmiles off, such a vehicle proving of quite sufficient size for the\ndeparting teacher's effects. For the ...
1,241	153_part_1,_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jude returns to his aunt's house with the buckets full of water and finds his aunt talking with her friends. She is explaining his origins; that he is an orphan and has been with her for a year. She reveals that his parents' marriage was an unhappy one, and that Jude has a great love for books, like his cousin Sue. Aun...	[ "Slender as was Jude Fawley's frame he bore the two brimming\nhouse-buckets of water to the cottage without resting. Over the door\nwas a little rectangular piece of blue board, on which was painted\nin yellow letters, \"Drusilla Fawley, Baker.\" Within the little lead\npanes of the window--this being one of the ...
1,242	153_part_1,_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jude goes to a high point outside the village and finally climbs the roof of a barn, the Brown House. From there he strains his eyes to search for Christminster, but he sees nothing. Later in the evening, just before sunset, he returns to the barn and sees Christminster, radiant in the light of the setting sun. After t...	[ "Not a soul was visible on the hedgeless highway, or on either side of\nit, and the white road seemed to ascend and diminish till it joined\nthe sky. At the very top it was crossed at right angles by a green\n\"ridgeway\"--the Ickneild Street and original Roman road through the\ndistrict. This ancient track ran e...
1,243	153_part_1,_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	While walking home Jude meets a quack doctor, Physician Vilbert. Jude questions him about Christminster and offers to get orders for Vilbert's pills and potions if Vilbert agrees to bring him his old Greek and Latin grammar texts. Jude works hard for two weeks and keeps his part of the bargain, but Vilbert lets him dow...	[ "Walking somewhat slowly by reason of his concentration, the boy--an\nancient man in some phases of thought, much younger than his years\nin others--was overtaken by a light-footed pedestrian, whom,\nnotwithstanding the gloom, he could perceive to be wearing an\nextraordinarily tall hat, a swallow-tailed coat, and ...
1,209	153_part_1,_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	During the next few years Jude diligently studies Latin and Greek on his own. He also drives a wagon delivering bread and baked goods for his aunt. Despite the poor texts and the lack of a tutor, he makes remarkable progress due to sheer perseverance and becomes familiar with Caesar, Virgil and Horace. One evening he i...	[ "During the three or four succeeding years a quaint and singular\nvehicle might have been discerned moving along the lanes and by-roads\nnear Marygreen, driven in a quaint and singular way.", "In the course of a month or two after the receipt of the books\nJude had grown callous to the shabby trick played him by ...
1,244	153_part_1,_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	One Saturday afternoon Jude is returning from Alfredston to Marygreen. He mentally takes stock of and is rather pleased at his progress: his fluency in Latin and Greek, his familiarity with Euclid and his knowledge of Roman and English history. He indulges in a pleasant daydream of becoming a D. D. and eventually risin...	[ "At this memorable date of his life he was, one Saturday, returning\nfrom Alfredston to Marygreen about three o'clock in the afternoon.\nIt was fine, warm, and soft summer weather, and he walked with his\ntools at his back, his little chisels clinking faintly against the\nlarger ones in his basket. It being the en...
1,245	153_part_1,_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next day, a Sunday, Jude plans to read his New Greek testament. But eventually, all his good intentions evaporate, and he goes off to visit Arabella, promising himself that he will return in two hours. Arabella's father accepts Jude as his daughter's suitor, but Jude is embarrassed at this interpretation. He goes o...	[ "The next day Jude Fawley was pausing in his bedroom with the sloping\nceiling, looking at the books on the table, and then at the black\nmark on the plaster above them, made by the smoke of his lamp in past\nmonths.", "It was Sunday afternoon, four-and-twenty hours after his meeting with\nArabella Donn. During ...
1,246	153_part_1,_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	One evening Jude happens to meet Arabella, who is chasing some pigs that have escaped from their sty. At this time Arabella flirts outrageously with Jude and leads him on, but Jude does not take advantage of the situation. As a result, Arabella displays her irritation. She tries a second time. The next day she contrive...	[ "One week's end Jude was as usual walking out to his aunt's at\nMarygreen from his lodging in Alfredston, a walk which now had large\nattractions for him quite other than his desire to see his aged and\nmorose relative. He diverged to the right before ascending the hill\nwith the single purpose of gaining, on his ...
1,211	153_part_1,_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Two months later Jude tells Arabella that he plans to go away to Christminster. He wants to break off his relationship with her. But Arabella bursts into tears and tells Jude she is pregnant with his child. Jude is stunned at this news. He becomes aware of how his cherished plans of pursuing a university education will...	[ "It was some two months later in the year, and the pair had met\nconstantly during the interval. Arabella seemed dissatisfied; she\nwas always imagining, and waiting, and wondering.", "One day she met the itinerant Vilbert. She, like all the cottagers\nthereabout, knew the quack well, and she began telling him ...
1,247	153_part_1,_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jude and Arabella have been fattening a pig all autumn, and it is now time for the killing. When Challow, the professional pig killer, is late, Jude is forced to kill the pig himself although he finds the job distasteful. Ignoring Arabella's instructions to let it bleed slowly, he kill the animal quickly and mercifully...	[ "The time arrived for killing the pig which Jude and his wife had\nfattened in their sty during the autumn months, and the butchering\nwas timed to take place as soon as it was light in the morning, so\nthat Jude might get to Alfredston without losing more than a quarter\nof a day.", "The night had seemed strange...
1,248	153_part_1,_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next day Jude and Arabella have an argument. She deliberately dirties and throws his books until Jude physically restrains her. She goes outside and exaggerates Jude's ill treatment of her. She accuses Jude of being just like his father and his aunt with regard to marriage. Later, Jude asks his Aunt Drusilla about ...	[ "Next morning, which was Sunday, she resumed operations about ten\no'clock; and the renewed work recalled the conversation which had\naccompanied it the night before, and put her back into the same\nintractable temper.", "\"That's the story about me in Marygreen, is it--that I entrapped 'ee?\nMuch of a catch you ...
1,213	153_part_2,_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jude is seen three years later on his way to Christminster after completing his apprenticeship as a stone mason. Before leaving Marygreen, he saw a portrait of his pretty cousin, Sue Bridehead, who his aunt tells him is now in Christminster. Jude is at least partly inspired to pursue his goal in the city by Sue. He ent...	[ "The next noteworthy move in Jude's life was that in which he appeared\ngliding steadily onward through a dusky landscape of some three\nyears' later leafage than had graced his courtship of Arabella,\nand the disruption of his coarse conjugal life with her. He was\nwalking towards Christminster City, at a point a...
1,249	153_part_2,_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jude starts looking for a job in Christminster, and as soon as he is offered one , he accepts it. By night he studies sincerely. He spends his money on books, pens and paper even though he cannot afford a fire. When it is too cold, he sits up reading wrapped in a greatcoat, hat and woolen gloves. He persuades his aunt ...	[ "Necessary meditations on the actual, including the mean\nbread-and-cheese question, dissipated the phantasmal for a while, and\ncompelled Jude to smother high thinkings under immediate needs. He\nhad to get up, and seek for work, manual work; the only kind deemed\nby many of its professors to be work at all.", ...
1,250	153_part_2,_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next Sunday Jude attends the evening service at the Cathedral. Sue is also present at the same service and Jude observes her with growing interest and admiration. He still does not approach her. The organ music and his vision of Sue in church affects Jude greatly. He leaves the church spiritually and emotionally el...	[ "But under the various deterrent influences Jude's instinct was to\napproach her timidly, and the next Sunday he went to the morning\nservice in the Cathedral church of Cardinal College to gain a further\nview of her, for he had found that she frequently attended there.", "She did not come, and he awaited her in ...
1,215	153_part_2,_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jude once again sees Sue in church with Miss Fontover but again does not present himself to her. He is uneasy about his growing attachment to her. Meanwhile, Sue has heard of Jude's presence in Christminster and visits him at work, but finding him out, she leaves a friendly note for him. Jude sends her a note in reply ...	[ "He was a handy man at his trade, an all-round man, as artizans in\ncountry-towns are apt to be. In London the man who carves the boss\nor knob of leafage declines to cut the fragment of moulding which\nmerges in that leafage, as if it were a degradation to do the second\nhalf of one whole. When there was not muc...
1,216	153_part_2,_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Sue proves to be quite a success as a teacher, and Phillotson is happy with her work. But he soon begins to be interested in her as a woman. He starts giving her lessons in the evening with her landlady as chaperone. One day Sue and Phillotson take the school children to Christminster to see an exhibition of a model of...	[ "The schoolmaster sat in his homely dwelling attached to the school,\nboth being modern erections; and he looked across the way at the old\nhouse in which his teacher Sue had a lodging. The arrangement had\nbeen concluded very quickly. A pupil-teacher who was to have been\ntransferred to Mr. Phillotson's school h...
1,216	153_part_2,_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On Sunday Jude goes to Marygreen to visit Aunt Drusilla, who is now bed-ridden. He cannot help talking about Sue and Aunt Drusilla immediately warns him to stay away from his cousin. His aunt's nurse recounts tales about Sue as a child: her skill at recitation, her cleverness and her unconventional ways. Sue comes acro...	[ "The schoolmaster sat in his homely dwelling attached to the school,\nboth being modern erections; and he looked across the way at the old\nhouse in which his teacher Sue had a lodging. The arrangement had\nbeen concluded very quickly. A pupil-teacher who was to have been\ntransferred to Mr. Phillotson's school h...
1,251	153_part_2,_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next day, in a state of deep depression, Jude goes to a tavern and becomes very drunk. Wallowing in self-pity, he criticizes the university and its scholars and boasts of his own learning. When asked to prove his claims, he recites the Nicene Creed in Latin. He finally leaves the pub and goes out walking. Utterly d...	[ "The stroke of scorn relieved his mind, and the next morning he\nlaughed at his self-conceit. But the laugh was not a healthy one.\nHe re-read the letter from the master, and the wisdom in its lines,\nwhich had at first exasperated him, chilled and depressed him now.\nHe saw himself as a fool indeed.", "Deprived ...
1,252	153_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On Sunday Jude goes to Marygreen to visit Aunt Drusilla, who is now bed-ridden. He cannot help talking about Sue and Aunt Drusilla immediately warns him to stay away from his cousin. His aunt's nurse recounts tales about Sue as a child: her skill at recitation, her cleverness and her unconventional ways. Sue comes acro...	[ "It was a new idea--the ecclesiastical and altruistic life as distinct\nfrom the intellectual and emulative life. A man could preach and\ndo good to his fellow-creatures without taking double-firsts in the\nschools of Christminster, or having anything but ordinary knowledge.\nThe old fancy which had led on to the ...
1,253	153_part_3,_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Some weeks later Jude and Sue go by train from Melchester for an afternoon's outing to Wardour Castle. While wandering through the picture galleries, Jude is fascinated by the religious paintings of del Sarto, Guido Reni, Dolci and others. Sue is more interested in Lely and Reynolds. They decide to walk over the hills ...	[ "\"To-morrow is our grand day, you know. Where shall we go?\"", "\"I have leave from three till nine. Wherever we can get to and come\nback from in that time. Not ruins, Jude--I don't care for them.\"", "\"Well--Wardour Castle. And then we can do Fonthill if we like--all\nin the same afternoon.\"", "\"War...
1,254	153_part_3,_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	There is much speculation at the training college when Sue does not return that evening at prayer time. Everyone wonders about the young man she has gone out with, and some of them are convinced that Jude is only posing as her cousin. The situation takes a serious turn because a similar incident occurred the year befor...	[ "The seventy young women, of ages varying in the main from nineteen to\none-and-twenty, though several were older, who at this date filled\nthe species of nunnery known as the Training-School at Melchester,\nformed a very mixed community, which included the daughters of\nmechanics, curates, surgeons, shopkeepers, f...
1,255	153_part_3,_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When Sue gets up, Jude gives her some supper and they begin talking. Sue does not know Latin or Greek but has read most of the classics in translation along with much other serious literature. She confides in Jude that she developed her literary preferences from a Christminster undergraduate with whom she became very f...	[ "Jude's reverie was interrupted by the creak of footsteps ascending\nthe stairs.", "He whisked Sue's clothing from the chair where it was drying, thrust\nit under the bed, and sat down to his book. Somebody knocked and\nopened the door immediately. It was the landlady.", "\"Oh, I didn't know whether you was i...
1,256	153_chapters_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In the cold light of morning, Sue takes stock of her situation and regrets her rashness in running away from the training college. She is also afraid of Phillotson's reaction to her departure. She decides to stay with a friend at Shaston, hoping to return later to the training college, after her escapade has been forgo...	[ "When he returned she was dressed as usual.", "\"Now could I get out without anybody seeing me?\" she asked. \"The\ntown is not yet astir.\"", "\"But you have had no breakfast.\"", "\"Oh, I don't want any! I fear I ought not to have run away from that\nschool! Things seem so different in the cold light of ...
1,257	153_chapters_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The chapter begins with Phillotson, who is now the master of a large boys' school in Shaston. Apart from his work at school, he is also interested in Roman-Brittanic antiquities. He is madly in love with Sue and keeps thinking of her and going over the few letters she has written. He decides to pay an unannounced visit...	[ "Meanwhile a middle-aged man was dreaming a dream of great beauty\nconcerning the writer of the above letter. He was Richard\nPhillotson, who had recently removed from the mixed village school at\nLumsdon near Christminster, to undertake a large boys' school in his\nnative town of Shaston, which stood on a hill si...
1,258	153_chapters_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A day or two later Jude gets a letter formally signed by Sue, informing him of her plan to marry Phillotson in a few weeks. Jude is stunned by the news and suspects that his own revelation of his marriage may have triggered this rash decision. Before he can collect his wits, she writes a second letter requesting him to...	[ "Tidings from Sue a day or two after passed across Jude like a\nwithering blast.", "Before reading the letter he was led to suspect that its contents\nwere of a somewhat serious kind by catching sight of the\nsignature--which was in her full name, never used in her\ncorrespondence with him since her first note:",...
1,259	153_part_3,_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	After the wedding, Jude finds life in Melchester terribly depressing without Sue. He unrealistically hopes Sue will come back to him some days later. Hearing Aunt Drusilla is sick, he goes to Marygreen to visit her. At the same time, his old employer offers him work at Christminster. Aunt Drusilla is worse than Jude ex...	[ "Jude wondered if she had really left her handkerchief behind; or\nwhether it were that she had miserably wished to tell him of a love\nthat at the last moment she could not bring herself to express.", "He could not stay in his silent lodging when they were gone, and\nfearing that he might be tempted to drown his...
1,260	153_part_3,_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Having spent the night together as man and wife, Jude and Arabella return to Christminster the next day. Arabella tells Jude that she has remarried a Sydney hotel manager while in Australia, and that her new husband is thinking of following her to England. Jude is amazed and angry, but Arabella appears unconcerned abou...	[ "On the morrow between nine and half-past they were journeying back\nto Christminster, the only two occupants of a compartment in a\nthird-class railway-carriage. Having, like Jude, made rather a\nhasty toilet to catch the train, Arabella looked a little frowsy,\nand her face was very far from possessing the anima...
1,222	153_part_3,_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Determined to overcome his passion for Sue, Jude returns to Melchester and plunges seriously into his studies for the ministry. He begins to realize that his passions conflict with his aim of being a clergyman, and he decides to take up sacred music as a hobby. He joins a church choir and is deeply moved by a new hymn ...	[ "Jude returned to Melchester, which had the questionable\nrecommendation of being only a dozen and a half miles from his Sue's\nnow permanent residence. At first he felt that this nearness was a\ndistinct reason for not going southward at all; but Christminster\nwas too sad a place to bear, while the proximity of ...
1,261	153_part_4,_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jude visits Sue at the school at Shaston. He waits in the empty schoolroom and plays the hymn that has so enchanted him. Sue comes in silently. She also plays it for him, and they are both so moved by its beauty that Jude comments that they are very much alike. They talk about a number of subjects, and Sue mentions her...	[ "\"Whoso prefers either Matrimony or other Ordinance before\nthe Good of Man and the plain Exigence of Charity, let\nhim profess Papist, or Protestant, or what he will, he\nis no better than a Pharisee.\"--J. MILTON.", "Shaston, the ancient British Palladour,", "From whose foundation first such strange reports\...
1,262	153_part_4,_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next day, Sue, having changed her mind as usual, writes Jude a note saying he must not come to Shaston. Jude writes back agreeing not to meet her. But on Easter Monday he gets a message from Mrs. Edlin saying that his aunt's health is sinking. Jude rushes to Marygreen to find Aunt Drusilla already dead. He informs ...	[ "However, if God disposed not, woman did. The next morning but one\nbrought him this note from her:", "Don't come next week. On your own account don't! We were\n too free, under the influence of that morbid hymn and the\n twilight. Think no more than you can help of", "SUSANNA FLORENCE MARY.", "The di...
1,263	153_part_4,_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next day Sue is to return to Shaston, and they set out for the railroad station. Before they part, Jude and Sue embrace and kiss. Jude returns to Marygreen and realizes that he is facing a conflict: he cannot continue to be attached to Sue and still hope to be ordained a clergyman. He admits with painful honesty th...	[ "Sue's distressful confession recurred to Jude's mind all the night as\nbeing a sorrow indeed.", "The morning after, when it was time for her to go, the neighbours saw\nher companion and herself disappearing on foot down the hill path\nwhich led into the lonely road to Alfredston. An hour passed before\nhe retur...
1,264	153_chapters_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Phillotson has resumed his interest in Roman antiquities and late one night, lost in his thoughts, he absentmindedly enters Sue's bedroom. In terror Sue goes to the window and jumps out, injuring herself. Phillotson, horrified, rushes to help, but Sue is not seriously hurt. The incident convinces Phillotson that he sho...	[ "Phillotson was sitting up late, as was often his custom, trying to\nget together the materials for his long-neglected hobby of Roman\nantiquities. For the first time since reviving the subject he felt a\nreturn of his old interest in it. He forgot time and place, and when\nhe remembered himself and ascended to r...
1,225	153_chapters_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Sue takes the train to Melchester where Jude is waiting. He enters the compartment and tells her that they are going on to Aldbrickham, which is a large town where they will not be recognized. He has given up his cathedral work in Melchester. Jude tells Sue that Arabella has asked him for a divorce so that she can marr...	[ "Four-and-twenty hours before this time Sue had written the following\nnote to Jude:", "It is as I told you; and I am leaving to-morrow evening.\n Richard and I thought it could be done with less\n obtrusiveness after dark. I feel rather frightened, and\n therefore ask you to be sure you are on the Melches...
1,226	153_chapters_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Sue's absence is not immediately noticed, but when a month goes by and Sue does not return, rumors spread in Shaston about her having eloped. Phillotson admits the truth that he has consented to her living with her lover. The school committee is shocked and demands his resignation. Phillotson refuses, saying it is a pe...	[ "In returning to his native town of Shaston as schoolmaster Phillotson\nhad won the interest and awakened the memories of the inhabitants,\nwho, though they did not honour him for his miscellaneous acquirements\nas he would have been honoured elsewhere, retained for him a sincere\nregard. When, shortly after his a...
1,227	153_part_5,_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next year in February, Jude and Sue are still at Aldbrickham, but they have not yet become lovers. Jude was divorced from Arabella two months earlier, and now news arrives that Sue's divorce from Phillotson has come through. They are now both free to marry and they both go out for a walk to celebrate their freedom....	[ "How Gillingham's doubts were disposed of will most quickly appear by\npassing over the series of dreary months and incidents that followed\nthe events of the last chapter, and coming on to a Sunday in the\nFebruary of the year following.", "Sue and Jude were living in Aldbrickham, in precisely the same\nrelation...
1,265	153_part_5,_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	One day while Jude is out, Sue is distressed at having been visited by a fleshy, coarse woman: Arabella. Late that night Arabella returns and calls on Jude, telling him she has something important to discuss. Jude talks to her from the window, and Arabella asks him to come to the inn where she is staying. Her Australia...	[ "It was an evening at the end of the month, and Jude had just returned\nhome from hearing a lecture on ancient history in the public hall not\nfar off. When he entered, Sue, who had been keeping indoors during\nhis absence, laid out supper for him. Contrary to custom she did not\nspeak. Jude had taken up some il...
1,266	153_part_5,_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jude and Sue leave for the parish clerk's office to put up the banns for their marriage, but again, Sue gets cold feet about the wedding, and they decide to think it over. Hence it is delayed once more. In the meantime news comes from Arabella that she has now married Cartlett. There also comes the stunning revelation ...	[ "When Sue reached home Jude was awaiting her at the door to take the\ninitial step towards their marriage. She clasped his arm, and they\nwent along silently together, as true comrades oft-times do. He saw\nthat she was preoccupied, and forbore to question her.", "\"Oh Jude--I've been talking to her,\" she said...
1,229	153_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next day, Jude and Sue discover that the boy is called by the nickname, Little Father Time, because he looks so old. Sue remarks that his face is like the mask of Melpomene. They decide to have him christened on their wedding day. Widow Edlin is invited for the wedding, and she brings a number of gifts with her. Un...	[ "Their next and second attempt thereat was more deliberately made,\nthough it was begun on the morning following the singular child's\narrival at their home.", "Him they found to be in the habit of sitting silent, his quaint and\nweird face set, and his eyes resting on things they did not see in\nthe substantial ...
1,230	153_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	One summer day, Jude, Sue and Little Father Time go to visit The Great Wessex Agricultural Show at Stoke-Barehills. There are many visitors and sightseers, among them Arabella and her husband, Cartlett. On seeing Jude and his family, Arabella follows them without their knowledge. Arabella observes Jude and Sue together...	[ "The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him\nto express his personal views upon the grave controversy above given.\nThat the twain were happy--between their times of sadness--was\nindubitable. And when the unexpected apparition of Jude's child\nin the house had shown itself to be no such d...
1,231	153_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jude and Sue's postponement of their marriage is noticed by the neighbors at Aldbrickham, who begin to gossip about them. Little Father Time is teased at school. Sue and Jude decide to go off to London for a few days and then return, pretending they have been married there. But the scandal continues, and the neighbors ...	[ "The unnoticed lives that the pair had hitherto led began, from the\nday of the suspended wedding onwards, to be observed and discussed by\nother persons than Arabella. The society of Spring Street and the\nneighbourhood generally did not understand, and probably could not\nhave been made to understand, Sue and Ju...
1,267	153_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Over two years have passed. Jude and Sue lead a wandering life, stopping wherever Jude can find work as a mason. However, he refuses to do any church work. At the little town of Kennetbridge, Arabella and Anny arrive one day. Arabella is now widowed and is in mourning and has come to Kennetbridge to see the laying of a...	[ "From that week Jude Fawley and Sue walked no more in the town of\nAldbrickham.", "Whither they had gone nobody knew, chiefly because nobody cared\nto know. Any one sufficiently curious to trace the steps of such\nan obscure pair might have discovered without great trouble that\nthey had taken advantage of his a...
1,268	153_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	While returning to Alfredston with her friend Anny, Arabella confesses that seeing Sue has revived her interest in Jude. She cannot bear the thought of his being with Sue. She throws her religious pamphlets into a hedge, saying she does not want to be a hypocrite. On the way they overtake an elderly man who is shabbily...	[ "In the afternoon Sue and the other people bustling about Kennetbridge\nfair could hear singing inside the placarded hoarding farther down\nthe street. Those who peeped through the opening saw a crowd of\npersons in broadcloth, with hymn-books in their hands, standing round\nthe excavations for the new chapel-wall...
1,269	153_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Over two years have passed. Jude and Sue lead a wandering life, stopping wherever Jude can find work as a mason. However, he refuses to do any church work. At the little town of Kennetbridge, Arabella and Anny arrive one day. Arabella is now widowed and is in mourning and has come to Kennetbridge to see the laying of a...	[ "On their arrival the station was lively with straw-hatted young men,\nwelcoming young girls who bore a remarkable family likeness to their\nwelcomers, and who were dressed up in the brightest and lightest of\nraiment.", "\"The place seems gay,\" said Sue. \"Why--it is Remembrance\nDay!--Jude--how sly of you--yo...
1,270	153_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Little Father Time is depressed and gloomy at their inability to find lodgings. Before they go to bed, Sue talks to him and tells him that another baby is on the way. Little Father Time is horrified at the thought of another mouth to feed and bitterly blames Sue for having ruined them. He declares it would be better if...	[ "Sue sat looking at the bare floor of the room, the house being little\nmore than an old intramural cottage, and then she regarded the scene\noutside the uncurtained window. At some distance opposite, the outer\nwalls of Sarcophagus College--silent, black, and windowless--threw\ntheir four centuries of gloom, bigo...
1,271	153_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The death of the three children has left Sue emotionally scarred. She begins to develop an obsession about religion and her own sinfulness. She regards the tragedy as a judgment of God and begins to talk of "self-renunciation" and starts attending the church of St. Silas. Jude is amazed and disturbed at Sue's strange b...	[ "Sue was convalescent, though she had hoped for death, and Jude had\nagain obtained work at his old trade. They were in other lodgings\nnow, in the direction of Beersheba, and not far from the Church of\nCeremonies--Saint Silas.", "They would sit silent, more bodeful of the direct antagonism of\nthings than of t...
1,272	153_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Phillotson and his friend, Gillingham, had noticed Sue, Jude and the children in Christminster on Remembrance Day. One day at Alfredston, Phillotson reads about the death of the three children, and he is moved with compassion for Sue's woes. He meets Arabella again, and she tells him that the oldest child was hers and...	[ "The man whom Sue, in her mental _volte-face_, was now regarding as\nher inseparable husband, lived still at Marygreen.", "On the day before the tragedy of the children, Phillotson had seen\nboth her and Jude as they stood in the rain at Christminster watching\nthe procession to the theatre. But he had said noth...
1,235	153_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Sue arrives at Phillotson's house in Marygreen. When Phillotson welcomes her with a kiss, she shrinks in revulsion. And when she sees the marriage license, she recoils in fear, yet she is determined to go through with the marriage. Gillingham joins them for supper and Sue goes to Mrs. Edlin's place for the night. When ...	[ "The next afternoon the familiar Christminster fog still hung over all\nthings. Sue's slim shape was only just discernible going towards the\nstation.", "Jude had no heart to go to his work that day. Neither could he go\nanywhere in the direction by which she would be likely to pass.\nHe went in an opposite one...
1,273	153_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next day in Christminster, Arabella arrives at Jude's doorstep saying she is destitute and homeless after quarrelling with her father. She begs Jude to take her in. Jude is initially reluctant, but ultimately he feels sorry for her, and he arranges with the landlord to have a bed provided for her. When she raises t...	[ "The place was the door of Jude's lodging in the out-skirts of\nChristminster--far from the precincts of St. Silas' where he had\nformerly lived, which saddened him to sickness. The rain was coming\ndown. A woman in shabby black stood on the doorstep talking to Jude,\nwho held the door in his hand.", "\"I am lo...
1,274	153_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Arabella plots with her father to make Jude stay with them until she can remarry him. She arranges to have his belongings brought over, and all the while, they ply Jude with liquor. Finally, they arrange an-all night party to advertise her father's shop, and in the morning Arabella insists that Jude has promised to mar...	[ "Arabella was preparing breakfast in the downstairs back room of this\nsmall, recently hired tenement of her father's. She put her head\ninto the little pork-shop in front, and told Mr. Donn it was ready.\nDonn, endeavouring to look like a master pork-butcher, in a greasy\nblue blouse, and with a strap round his w...
1,275	153_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It is three months after Jude's wedding. Jude has returned to his work, but as winter approaches, he falls ill with consumption. Arabella is angry at being saddled with a sick husband whom she will now have to support. She quickly becomes tired of him, and their quarrels resume. As Jude's health declines, he asks Arabe...	[ "Michaelmas came and passed, and Jude and his wife, who had lived but\na short time in her father's house after their remarriage, were in\nlodgings on the top floor of a dwelling nearer to the centre of the\ncity.", "He had done a few days' work during the two or three months since\nthe event, but his health had ...
1,276	153_part_6,_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Arabella waits for Jude at the Christminster railway platform. She helps him home and chides him for the risk he took in going out in the rain. But Jude tells her that he did it deliberately, in the hope that the exposure would kill him. He claims that he had only two wishes: to see Sue and to die. He declares that he ...	[ "On the platform stood Arabella. She looked him up and down.", "\"You've been to see her?\" she asked.", "\"I have,\" said Jude, literally tottering with cold and lassitude.", "\"Well, now you'd best march along home.\"", "The water ran out of him as he went, and he was compelled to lean\nagainst the wall ...
1,238	153_part_6,_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jude recovers temporarily, but after Christmas, his health begins to decline again. Arabella is irritated at having to nurse him. But once she realizes he is seriously ill, she offers to send for Sue. Jude protests that Sue has chosen her own course and that he does not want to see her again. However, some days later, ...	[ "Despite himself Jude recovered somewhat, and worked at his trade for\nseveral weeks. After Christmas, however, he broke down again.", "With the money he had earned he shifted his lodgings to a yet more\ncentral part of the town. But Arabella saw that he was not likely\nto do much work for a long while, and was...
1,239	153_part_6,_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jude's life has dragged on, and once again it is summer and Remembrance Day in Christminster. The weather is calm and the college festivities have begun. Arabella leaves Jude alone and goes out to see the celebration. The organ notes of the concert outside disturb Jude and he wakes up coughing. He realizes it is Rememb...	[ "The last pages to which the chronicler of these lives would ask the\nreader's attention are concerned with the scene in and out of Jude's\nbedroom when leafy summer came round again.", "His face was now so thin that his old friends would hardly have known\nhim. It was afternoon, and Arabella was at the looking-...
1,277	141_chapters_1-6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The three Ward sisters marry very different men. Maria makes the most brilliant match, marrying the wealthy baronet Sir Thomas Bertram of Mansfield Park - much to the delight of her family and neighbors. The second sister becomes the wife of Rev. Norris, a perfectly acceptable match, but the third, Mrs. Price, marries ...	[ "About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven\nthousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of\nMansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised\nto the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences\nof an handsome house and l...
1,278	141_chapters_7-12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	After a great deal of selfish haranguing, Mary Crawford finally has her harp delivered. The harp is Edmund's favorite instrument, and he falls even deeper under Mary's spell: "a young woman, pretty, lively with a harp...was enough to catch any man's heart." Fanny is taken aback by Mary's selfish attitude, but as usual ...	[ "\"Well, Fanny, and how do you like Miss Crawford _now_?\" said Edmund the\nnext day, after thinking some time on the subject himself. \"How did you\nlike her yesterday?\"", "\"Very well--very much. I like to hear her talk. She entertains me; and\nshe is so extremely pretty, that I have great pleasure in looking ...
1,279	141_chapters_13-18	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Tom's friend Mr. Yates accompanies Tom back to Mansfield Park, where he speaks non-stop about his disappointment over not being allowed to direct a play at Ecclesford. The endeavor, it seems, was put an end to when the family's grandmother died. He never ceases talking about the disappointment, and finally Tom proposes...	[ "The Honourable John Yates, this new friend, had not much to recommend\nhim beyond habits of fashion and expense, and being the younger son of\na lord with a tolerable independence; and Sir Thomas would probably\nhave thought his introduction at Mansfield by no means desirable. Mr. Bertram's acquaintance with him h...
1,280	141_chapters_19-24	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Fanny waits in the drawing-room with the Crawfords and Mr. Yates while Sir Thomas is reunited with his immediate family. The Crawfords quietly return to the parsonage, but Mr. Yates stays behind. In great trepidation, Fanny goes to see her uncle, and is stunned by his kind manner towards her: "his kindness was such as ...	[ "How is the consternation of the party to be described? To the greater\nnumber it was a moment of absolute horror. Sir Thomas in the house! All\nfelt the instantaneous conviction. Not a hope of imposition or mistake\nwas harboured anywhere. Julia's looks were an evidence of the fact that\nmade it indisputable; and ...
1,281	141_chapters_25-30	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Fanny is overjoyed to see her brother William when he visits Mansfield Park, and spends every possible moment with him. Henry Crawford is impressed with their mutual devotion, and comes to view Fanny in a new light. He thinks how wonderful it must be to be loved like that, and soon falls in love with her. Fanny remains...	[ "The intercourse of the two families was at this period more nearly\nrestored to what it had been in the autumn, than any member of the\nold intimacy had thought ever likely to be again. The return of Henry\nCrawford, and the arrival of William Price, had much to do with it,\nbut much was still owing to Sir Thomas'...

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