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2,642 | 11228_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sandy finishes his evening chores and goes out for the night. Usually, he would go to the church, but since being disallowed from attending services he decides to go to "the lower part of town" to visit some friends. On the way, he meets Josh Green who invites him to have a drink with him. The one drink turns into many... | [
"SANDY SEES HIS OWN HA'NT",
"Having finished cleaning his clothes, Sandy went out to the kitchen for\nsupper, after which he found himself with nothing to do. Mr. Delamere's\nabsence relieved him from attendance at the house during the evening. He\nmight have smoked his pipe tranquilly in the kitchen until bedtim... |
2,643 | 11228_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ellis leaves the Morning Chronicle offices at about eleven and walks towards his boarding house down the same street as the Carteret and Delamere residences. Earlier in the day, Ellis went to the club to verify the rumor that Tom Delamere had been kicked out of the Clarendon Club. He is hopeful that Clara Pemberton wil... | [
"Ellis left the office of the Morning Chronicle about eleven o'clock the\nsame evening and set out to walk home. His boarding-house was only a\nshort distance beyond old Mr. Delamere's residence, and while he might\nhave saved time and labor by a slightly shorter route, he generally\nselected this one because it le... |
2,644 | 11228_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On Friday morning, Mrs. Ochiltree's cook, Dinah, goes to wake her and find her murdered body lying on the floor. Dinah hurries over to Mrs. Carteret's house and announces the death in a terrified fashion. Olivia is filled with terror but also remembers that she had meant to ask her Aunt Polly about the papers that she ... | [
"On Friday morning, when old Mrs. Ochiltree's cook Dinah went to wake her\nmistress, she was confronted with a sight that well-nigh blanched her\nebony cheek and caused her eyes almost to start from her head with\nhorror. As soon as she could command her trembling limbs sufficiently to\nmake them carry her, she rus... |
2,645 | 11228_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At ten o'clock the next morning, Major Carteret, Captain McBane, and General Belmont all gather in the Morning Chronicle's office to discuss the options presented to them by this atrocious crime. A reporter comes into the office and tells them that a suspect has been apprehended, Sandy Campbell, and that it was Jerry, ... | [
"About ten o'clock on the morning of the discovery of the murder, Captain\nMcBane and General Belmont, as though moved by a common impulse, found\nthemselves at the office of the Morning Chronicle. Carteret was\nexpecting them, though there had been no appointment made. These three\nresourceful and energetic minds,... |
2,646 | 11228_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dr. Miller is woken by Mr. Watson, the town's black lawyer, who tells him that Sandy has been arrested on charges of murder and that he will be lynched. There is a knock at the door and Josh Green enters. Josh tells them that he knows Sandy is innocent because he was with him the night before. Miller believes that Josh... | [
"Dr. Miller, who had sat up late the night before with a difficult case\nat the hospital, was roused, about eleven o'clock, from a deep and\ndreamless sleep. Struggling back into consciousness, he was informed by\nhis wife, who stood by his bedside, that Mr. Watson, the colored lawyer,\nwished to see him upon a mat... |
2,647 | 11228_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Miller hurries out to Belleview, the Delamere country estate that had been in the family for over two hundred years. He is in such a hurry that he does not have time to enjoy the beauty of the place or the grandness of the house. He enters and explains quickly the situation. Mr. Delamere is shocked that Sandy should be... | [
"Miller did not reach his destination without interruption. At one point\na considerable stretch of the road was under repair, which made it\nnecessary for him to travel slowly. His horse cast a shoe, and\nthreatened to go lame; but in the course of time he arrived at the\nentrance gate of Belleview, entering which... |
2,648 | 11228_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the jail, Mr. Delamere questions Sandy. Sandy pleads his innocence and Mr. Delamere believes him without question. Delamere tells Sandy that it has been his love for his grandson and Sandy's care that has kept him alive. Sandy then tells him the whole tale of the evening, how he was with Josh Green, and how he went ... | [
"The iron bolt rattled in the lock, the door of a cell swung open, and\nwhen Mr. Delamere had entered was quickly closed again.",
"\"Well, Sandy!\"",
"\"Oh, Mars John! Is you fell from hebben ter he'p me out er here? I\nprayed de Lawd ter sen' you, an' He answered my prayer, an' here you is,\nMars John,--here y... |
2,649 | 11228_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Old Mr. Delamere goes to the Morning Chronicle offices to question Major Carteret. He exclaims that Sandy "has too much respect for the family to do anything that would reflect disgrace upon it" and demands that the Morning Chronicle print the news that new evidence has come forward, the word of Mr. Delamere himself. W... | [
"Mr. Delamere's coachman, who, in accordance with instructions left by\nMiller, had brought the carriage around to the jail and was waiting\nanxiously at the nearest corner, drove up with some trepidation as he\nsaw his master emerge from the prison. The old gentleman entered the\ncarriage and gave the order to be ... |
2,650 | 11228_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Ellis becomes uncomfortable at the thought of lynching Sandy. It was his testimony that put Sandy in jail and that now threatened to condemn him to death. Ellis is against lynching, and he wrote against it several times in the Morning Chronicle. Though he grew up in the South, he had never been a supporter of slave... | [
"Mr. Ellis was vaguely uncomfortable. In the first excitement following\nthe discovery of the crime, he had given his bit of evidence, and had\nshared the universal indignation against the murderer. When public\nfeeling took definite shape in the intention to lynch the prisoner,\nEllis felt a sudden sense of respon... |
2,651 | 11228_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Delamere goes to his home and immediately enters his grandson's room. He uses a stove poker to force open a locked drawer and finds the evidence of his grandson's licentious behavior: dice, bottles of whiskey, cards, and photographs "which the old gentleman merely glanced to ascertain their nature. Mr. Delamere spo... | [
"Mr. Delamere went immediately to his grandson's room, which he entered\nalone, closing and locking the door behind him. He had requested Ellis\nto wait in the carriage.",
"The bed had been made, and the room was apparently in perfect order.\nThere was a bureau in the room, through which Mr. Delamere proceeded to... |
2,652 | 11228_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A few weeks pass and Wellington resumes its "wonted calm. Tom leaves only old Mr. Delamere's wardrobe to Sandy and Major Carteret employs him as a butler in his own house. Tom does not visit Clara and Ellis, consumed by work at the office, does not make any immediate romantic advances towards her either. In the nation ... | [
"Wellington soon resumed its wonted calm, and in a few weeks the intended\nlynching was only a memory. The robbery and assault, however, still\nremained a mystery to all but a chosen few. The affair had been dropped\nas absolutely as though it had never occurred. No colored man ever\nlearned the reason of this sudd... |
2,653 | 11228_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The article is published in the Morning Chronicle and the effect is immediate. The whites begin to murmur of violence and the blacks try to arm themselves. No white person will sell them firearms, however, and so they make do with old military rifles and revolvers. An armed contingent guards the office of the editor of... | [
"Events moved rapidly during the next few days. The reproduction, in the\nChronicle, of the article from the Afro-American Banner, with Carteret's\ninflammatory comment, took immediate effect. It touched the Southern\nwhite man in his most sensitive spot. To him such an article was an\ninsult to white womanhood, an... |
2,654 | 11228_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Olivia Carteret remains disturbed by what her Aunt Polly had told her before her death. The shock of Aunt Polly's murder has kept her from opening the papers that she found in the pine box, but her nervousness over the situation finally allowed her to open them. The first document is a will. It leaves ten thousand doll... | [
"Mrs. Carteret was very much disturbed. It was supposed that the shock of\nher aunt's death had affected her health, for since that event she had\nfallen into a nervous condition which gave the major grave concern. Much\nto the general surprise, Mrs. Ochiltree had left no will, and no\nproperty of any considerable ... |
2,655 | 11228_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Olivia wakes from a "troubled dream. Her son had been a "fairy prince" in the dream, when a storm came over her, and a wall of water suddenly overcame her and the child. She envisions herself floating on the water while her son slowly sinks and she has no power to save him. She knows that it is her "father's folly" and... | [
"Mrs. Carteret awoke, with a start, from a troubled dream. She had been\nsailing across a sunlit sea, in a beautiful boat, her child lying on a\nbright-colored cushion at her feet. Overhead the swelling sail served as\nan awning to keep off the sun's rays, which far ahead were reflected\nwith dazzling brilliancy fr... |
2,656 | 11228_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Wellington riot begins at three o'clock in the afternoon. Armed white men come into the street "as if by magic" and begin to search and hold up any black man, woman, or child that they see. If he disagrees with the request, there is violence. Dr. Miller is out on a call and as he comes back into town, he sees group... | [
"The Wellington riot began at three o'clock in the afternoon of a day as\nfair as was ever selected for a deed of darkness. The sky was clear,\nexcept for a few light clouds that floated, white and feathery, high in\nair, like distant islands in a sapphire sea. A salt-laden breeze from\nthe ocean a few miles away l... |
2,657 | 11228_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Miller rushes home and breaks into his own house because everything is locked up so tightly. The Miller's servant tells him that his wife and child went over to the Butlers' home. MIller dashes out of the house again and makes rapid progress towards town on his horse. Suddenly, he comes across a dead body in the street... | [
"The party under Josh's leadership moved off down the road. Miller, while\nentirely convinced that he had acted wisely in declining to accompany\nthem, was yet conscious of a distinct feeling of shame and envy that he,\ntoo, did not feel impelled to throw away his life in a hopeless\nstruggle.",
"Watson left the ... |
2,658 | 11228_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Miller knocks at the front door, then the back door, and finally summons a frightened Mrs. Butler to the door. She tells him that his wife and child left earlier for home. Miller tries to convince himself that the white people's savagery would not go so far as to harm women and children. As he walks down the street, he... | [
"Miller knocked at the door. There was no response. He went round to the\nrear of the house. The dog had slunk behind the woodpile. Miller knocked\nagain, at the back door, and, receiving no reply, called aloud.",
"\"Mrs. Butler! It is I, Dr. Miller. Is my wife here?\"",
"The slats of a near-by blind opened cau... |
2,659 | 11228_chapter_35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The riot is deemed a "revolution" by the white people, but by seven o'clock it had become a murderous riot. Josh and his group of men make their way to Dr. Miller's hospital with the idea of protecting every important negro institution that they could. The white mobs hear that there is a band of black men preparing to ... | [
"The proceedings of the day--planned originally as a \"demonstration,\"\ndignified subsequently as a \"revolution,\" under any name the culmination\nof the conspiracy formed by Carteret and his colleagues--had by seven\no'clock in the afternoon developed into a murderous riot. Crowds of\nwhite men and half-grown bo... |
2,660 | 11228_chapter_36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carteret returns home and finds the door locked. When a servant lets him in, he finds that his child has become sick with the croup and that the situation has become quite severe. Carteret begins questioning whom they contacted about the situation, but Mrs. Carteret and the nurse tells him that no doctor was available ... | [
"FIAT JUSTITIA",
"By the light of the burning building, which illuminated the street for\nseveral blocks, Major Carteret and Ellis made their way rapidly until\nthey turned into the street where the major lived. Reaching the house,\nCarteret tried the door and found it locked. A vigorous ring at the bell\nbrought... |
2,661 | 11228_chapter_37 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The doorbell at the Miller residence furiously rings. Miller is in a dazed grief, but rises to answer it. He finds Mrs. Carteret begging him to save her child. Miller tells her that he will not -- "Love, duty, sorrow, justice, call me here. I cannot go. Olivia falls to her knees, begging Miller and praying to God that ... | [
"Miller's doorbell rang loudly, insistently, as though demanding a\nresponse. Absorbed in his own grief, into which he had relapsed upon\nCarteret's departure, the sound was an unwelcome intrusion. Surely the\nman could not be coming back! If it were some one else--What else might\nhappen to the doomed town concern... |
2,662 | 122_book_1,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We open our tale on a Saturday afternoon in November in a place called Egdon Heath. If you're wondering what the heck Egdon Heath is, don't worry. Hardy proceeds to tell us all about it. In lots of detail. Think Victorian National Geographic. The sun is setting and the heath is getting dark and gloomy. And look, the"fa... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n1--A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression",
"A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight,\nand the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned\nitself moment by moment. Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud\nshutting out the sky was as a tent... |
2,663 | 122_book_1,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Some people finally arrive! An old man is walking along a road. Another fellow appears on the scene - it's a guy walking alongside a van and surrounded by a cloud a red dust, like Pig-Pen. This guy is a "reddleman," which is a person who sold red dye to people. Since he works with red dye all the time, the reddleman is... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n2--Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble",
"Along the road walked an old man. He was white-headed as a mountain,\nbowed in the shoulders, and faded in general aspect. He wore a glazed\nhat, an ancient boat-cloak, and shoes; his brass buttons bearing an\nanchor upon their face. In ... |
2,664 | 122_book_1,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A group of people are building bonfires on the heath, in celebration of Guy Fawkes Night. Want to read more about Guy Fawkes and Guy Fawkes Night? Well then check out his biography and perhaps a website on the history of the holiday as well. Enjoy! The bonfires and the heath are described in detail. Some old guy is dan... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n3--The Custom of the Country",
"Had a looker-on been posted in the immediate vicinity of the barrow,\nhe would have learned that these persons were boys and men of the\nneighbouring hamlets. Each, as he ascended the barrow, had been heavily\nladen with furze faggots, carried upon the shoulder by means... |
2,665 | 122_book_1,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Olly and Mrs. Yeobright walk and talk and we get the lowdown on the Thomasin situation. Basically Wildeve is kind of a playboy and Mrs. Yeobright therefore does not approve of him. Suddenly the reddleman comes up the road. He tells Mrs. Yeobright that he has Thomasin in his van. She came up to him crying earlier that d... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n4--The Halt on the Turnpike Road",
"Down, downward they went, and yet further down--their descent at each\nstep seeming to outmeasure their advance. Their skirts were scratched\nnoisily by the furze, their shoulders brushed by the ferns, which,\nthough dead and dry, stood erect as when alive, no suffi... |
2,666 | 122_book_1,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Thomasin isn't married after all, which is hugely scandalous. Her aunt is shocked. Turns out, Wildeve, first name Damon, did something wrong with the marriage license. Thomasin is upset but she doesn't try to avoid blame in the situation - she panicked and ran off after the marriage snafu, which probably didn't help ma... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n5--Perplexity among Honest People",
"Thomasin looked as if quite overcome by her aunt's change of manner.\n\"It means just what it seems to mean: I am--not married,\" she replied\nfaintly. \"Excuse me--for humiliating you, Aunt, by this mishap--I am\nsorry for it. But I cannot help it.\"",
"\"Me? Th... |
2,667 | 122_book_1,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We now start following the mysterious woman around. We also seem to have taken a detour into a gothic novel, given all the "windswept mores" description and the "death" imagery. Creepy. Aside from the howling wind and creepy atmosphere, we learn that the woman is very beautiful and has very dark hair and is like some s... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n6--The Figure against the Sky",
"When the whole Egdon concourse had left the site of the bonfire to its\naccustomed loneliness, a closely wrapped female figure approached the\nbarrow from that quarter of the heath in which the little fire lay. Had\nthe reddleman been watching he might have recognized ... |
2,668 | 122_book_1,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter opens with a doozy of a sentence: "Eustacia Vye was the raw material of a divinity" . Top that, Thomasin. Eustacia is likened to a Greek goddess, the night, winter, a Sphinx, and a Pagan. She's paralleled to Egdon Heath after dark as well. We learn that Eustacia is the daughter of a Greek musician and Capt... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n7--Queen of Night",
"Eustacia Vye was the raw material of a divinity. On Olympus she would\nhave done well with a little preparation. She had the passions and\ninstincts which make a model goddess, that is, those which make not\nquite a model woman. Had it been possible for the earth and mankind to\nb... |
2,669 | 122_book_1,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After our little Eustacia-centric interlude, we rejoin the story in the present. Little Johnny is running home with his money, singing a song. He's not scared of the heath at night. But then he spies some unusual lights and is afraid. He turns back to Captain Vye's house in order to ask for a servant to walk him home. ... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n8--Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody",
"As soon as the sad little boy had withdrawn from the fire he clasped\nthe money tight in the palm of his hand, as if thereby to fortify his\ncourage, and began to run. There was really little danger in allowing a\nchild to go home alone on thi... |
2,670 | 122_book_1,_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We get a mini-history lesson on reddlemen and how the profession is becoming pretty scarce. But reddlemen used to be fairly common in the area and "A child's first sight of a reddleman was an epoch in his life. That blood-coloured figure was a sublimation of all the horrid dreams which had afflicted his juvenile spirit... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n9--Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy",
"Reddlemen of the old school are now but seldom seen. Since the\nintroduction of railways Wessex farmers have managed to do without these\nMephistophelian visitants, and the bright pigment so largely used by\nshepherds in preparing sheep for the fair is obtai... |
2,671 | 122_book_1,_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Diggory Venn is walking along the heath on a Sunday morning. Most residents of Egdon rarely go to church. Diggory is going to Captain Vye's house to pay a visit. People rarely visit there because the Captain has erratic, or changeable, moods, and Eustacia is just plain moody all the time. The Captain greets Diggory whe... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n10--A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion",
"The next morning, at the time when the height of the sun appeared very\ninsignificant from any part of the heath as compared with the altitude\nof Rainbarrow, and when all the little hills in the lower levels were\nlike an archipelago in a fog-formed Aegean, th... |
2,672 | 122_book_1,_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Diggory Venn is definitely persistent. After his poor showing with Eustacia, he decides to try again with Mrs. Yeobright. Luckily, he comes across Mrs. Yeobright making her way to the Quiet Woman Inn to see Wildeve. She looks about as thrilled as someone who's heading to a dentist appointment. The two start chatting an... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n11--The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman",
"The reddleman had left Eustacia's presence with desponding views on\nThomasin's future happiness; but he was awakened to the fact that one\nother channel remained untried by seeing, as he followed the way to his\nvan, the form of Mrs. Yeobright slowly walking t... |
2,673 | 122_book_2,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The seasons are changing and winter is arriving in the heath, making for much shorter and colder days. Eustacia is sitting inside and hears voices. But she's not going crazy - she's hearing the echoes of the furze-cutters outside through the chimney. What's a furze-cutter, you ask? Well it's someone who cuts furze, or ... | [
"<CHAPTER>\nBOOK TWO -- THE ARRIVAL\n1--Tidings of the Comer",
"On the fine days at this time of the year, and earlier, certain\nephemeral operations were apt to disturb, in their trifling way, the\nmajestic calm of Egdon Heath. They were activities which, beside those\nof a town, a village, or even a farm, would... |
2,674 | 122_book_2,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Yeobright badgers Thomasin out of her funk and enlists her in Operation: Clym's Visit. The two women clean the house and prepare Clym's room. They then head outside to gather ferns and apples. Thomasin talks about her situation and is upset that she's being labeled as a scarlet woman when she hasn't done anything ... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n2--The People at Blooms-End Make Ready",
"All that afternoon the expected arrival of the subject of Eustacia's\nruminations created a bustle of preparation at Blooms-End. Thomasin had\nbeen persuaded by her aunt, and by an instinctive impulse of loyalty\ntowards her cousin Clym, to bestir herself on h... |
2,675 | 122_book_2,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Eustacia goes a bit Lifetime movie on us and decides to stake out the Yeobright house. The house is dark so she's about to give up and head home. But as she starts back, she hears voices - it's the Yeobrights. The Yeobrights greet Eustacia, and she murmurs a reply. She doesn't get a look at Clym's face, but she does he... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n3--How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream",
"Eustacia stood just within the heath, straining her eyes in the\ndirection of Mrs. Yeobright's house and premises. No light, sound, or\nmovement was perceptible there. The evening was chilly; the spot was\ndark and lonely. She inferred that the guest had... |
2,676 | 122_book_2,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's December 23rd and Eustacia is home alone. We learn that in most small towns the local church becomes a social hotspot during the holiday season since everyone decides to go for once. But this isn't the case in Egdon Heath. Everyone is so spread out and isolated that gatherings at the local parish aren't the norm. ... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n4--Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure",
"In the evening of this last day of expectation, which was the\ntwenty-third of December, Eustacia was at home alone. She had passed\nthe recent hour in lamenting over a rumour newly come to her ears--that\nYeobright's visit to his mother was to be of short dura... |
2,677 | 122_book_2,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next night the mummers gather by the Vyes' fuel house before proceeding to the Yeobrights' party. They disagree what time it is since the clocks at the Quiet Woman, Blooms-End, and the Vyes' house are all different. Eustacia finally appears in full costume and explains that Charley is sick and she's Miss Vye's cous... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n5--Through the Moonlight",
"The next evening the mummers were assembled in the same spot, awaiting\nthe entrance of the Turkish Knight.",
"\"Twenty minutes after eight by the Quiet Woman, and Charley not come.\"",
"\"Ten minutes past by Blooms-End.\"",
"\"It wants ten minutes to, by Grandfer Can... |
2,678 | 122_book_2,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Eustacia is still propped against the wall watching the party and looking for Clym. Thomasin is nowhere to be seen, and Eustacia guesses that she's hiding due to her scandalous almost-but-not-quite marriage to Damon Wildeve. But then Eustacia sees Clym and all other thoughts stop. We learn that he looks young but not i... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n6--The Two Stand Face to Face",
"The room had been arranged with a view to the dancing, the large oak\ntable having been moved back till it stood as a breastwork to the\nfireplace. At each end, behind, and in the chimney-corner were grouped\nthe guests, many of them being warm-faced and panting, among... |
2,679 | 122_book_2,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's the morning after the party, and Captain Vye decides to ask why Eustacia was out and about so late. He generally inquires about her activities once a month or so. Eustacia responds that she was "in search of events" . She then confesses that she went out with the mummers and gave an Oscar-worthy performance as the... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n7--A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness",
"The old captain's prevailing indifference to his granddaughter's\nmovements left her free as a bird to follow her own courses; but it so\nhappened that he did take upon himself the next morning to ask her why\nshe had walked out so late.",
"\"Only in sear... |
2,680 | 122_book_2,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Time for a flashback! Clym is out visiting a friend and Thomasin comes in to tell her aunt that the wedding with Damon is back on. Her aunt is cautiously optimistic about the whole thing. Clym wrote a letter asking what's going on with Thomasin - he's shocked by the whole thing and wonders how Thomasin could "mortify" ... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n8--Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart",
"On that evening the interior of Blooms-End, though cosy and comfortable,\nhad been rather silent. Clym Yeobright was not at home. Since the\nChristmas party he had gone on a few days' visit to a friend about ten\nmiles off.",
"The shadowy form seen by V... |
2,681 | 122_book_3,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hardy gives us a detailed description of Clym Yeobright, similar to the one we got of Eustacia back in Book 1, Chapter 7. In a nutshell, Clym is handsome and looks like he belongs to the future. Clym was the local golden boy of whom great things were expected. He went to Paris and was successful, but now he's returned ... | [
"<CHAPTER>\nBOOK THREE -- THE FASCINATION\n1--\"My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is\"",
"In Clym Yeobright's face could be dimly seen the typical countenance\nof the future. Should there be a classic period to art hereafter, its\nPheidias may produce such faces. The view of life as a thing to be put\nup with, replacing th... |
2,682 | 122_book_3,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator informs us that Clym loves the heath and the people of Egdon, but that he doesn't have a good understanding of them and his school scheme isn't planned out very well. Clym is a huge part of the heath, but he doesn't quite understand his place in it. "Take all the varying hates felt by Eustacia Vye towards ... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n2--The New Course Causes Disappointment",
"Yeobright loved his kind. He had a conviction that the want of most men\nwas knowledge of a sort which brings wisdom rather than affluence. He\nwished to raise the class at the expense of individuals rather than\nindividuals at the expense of the class. What ... |
2,683 | 122_book_3,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Yeobright is upset that Clym is showing an interest in Eustacia. Clym says, whatever, and leaves anyway. The local men try to get some rope around the bucket and drag it back out, but they keep having trouble since the bucket is water-logged and heavy now. Clym offers to take Timothy Fairway's place and to be lowe... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n3--The First Act in a Timeworn Drama",
"The afternoon was fine, and Yeobright walked on the heath for an hour\nwith his mother. When they reached the lofty ridge which divided the\nvalley of Blooms-End from the adjoining valley they stood still and\nlooked round. The Quiet Woman Inn was visible on the... |
2,684 | 122_book_3,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After studying all day, Clym heads out to the heath to watch an eclipse. And to meet Eustacia, of course. The two of them make out for a bit and talk about their true love. Eustacia is worried about Mrs. Yeobright not liking her, and Clym tries to reassure her. Then Eustacia starts asking Clym about Paris. Clym sounds ... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n4--An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness",
"The next day was gloomy enough at Blooms-End. Yeobright remained in\nhis study, sitting over the open books; but the work of those hours was\nmiserably scant. Determined that there should be nothing in his conduct\ntowards his mother resembling sullenne... |
2,685 | 122_book_3,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | So Clym finally breaks the news of his engagement to his mom, who flips out. They have a huge argument. Mrs. Yeobright disses Eustacia's family, Eustacia herself, and Clym. Mrs. Yeobright finishes her rant with a flourish - "If you wished to connect yourself with an unworthy person why did you come home here to do it? ... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n5--Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues",
"When Yeobright was not with Eustacia he was sitting slavishly over his\nbooks; when he was not reading he was meeting her. These meetings were\ncarried on with the greatest secrecy.",
"One afternoon his mother came home from a morning visit to Thomas... |
2,686 | 122_book_3,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Clym leaves home and goes to set up his new digs. He walks to his cottage. It's a rainy, ominous day. Is Hardy giving us a hint here? Clym then goes back home to get his things, which is really awkward. He also announces that he'll be getting married on the 25th. Mrs. Yeobright says she doesn't plan to visit, and Clym ... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n6--Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete",
"All that evening smart sounds denoting an active packing up came from\nYeobright's room to the ears of his mother downstairs.",
"Next morning he departed from the house and again proceeded across the\nheath. A long day's march was before him, his obje... |
2,687 | 122_book_3,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's the day of the wedding and Mrs. Yeobright is wandering around her house by herself, being super emo. She hears the church bells ringing in the distance and knows that Clym is married. She reacts to this like the apocalypse is imminent. Then Wildeve stops by. This is the worst day ever for Mrs. Yeobright. Wildeve s... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n7--The Morning and the Evening of a Day",
"The wedding morning came. Nobody would have imagined from appearances\nthat Blooms-End had any interest in Mistover that day. A solemn\nstillness prevailed around the house of Clym's mother, and there was no\nmore animation indoors. Mrs. Yeobright, who had de... |
2,688 | 122_book_3,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Diggory challenges Damon to a gambling match to win back the money. This is turning into a production of Guys and Dolls. So the two men gamble and it's very tense. They even draw a crowd of some locals who think they're both weirdoes for playing dice outside in the dark. Diggory wins all the money and Damon stomps off,... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n8--A New Force Disturbs the Current",
"Wildeve stared. Venn looked coolly towards Wildeve, and, without a word\nbeing spoken, he deliberately sat himself down where Christian had been\nseated, thrust his hand into his pocket, drew out a sovereign, and laid\nit on the stone.",
"\"You have been watchi... |
2,689 | 122_book_4,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's July. Eustacia and Clym are in the honeymoon phase of their marriage and spend their days frolicking about the heath and gazing at one another. But not everything is all sunshine and roses - Eustacia is getting increasingly antsy and wants to move to Paris, while Clym is getting anxious about starting his school. ... | [
"<CHAPTER>\nBOOK FOUR -- THE CLOSED DOOR\n1--The Rencounter by the Pool",
"The July sun shone over Egdon and fired its crimson heather to scarlet.\nIt was the one season of the year, and the one weather of the season,\nin which the heath was gorgeous. This flowering period represented the\nsecond or noontide divi... |
2,690 | 122_book_4,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Eustacia marches home after her fight with her mother-in-law and yells to Clym about his mother. Clym is upset and demands to know what's up, but Eustacia refuses to repeat what was said. Later, Thomasin visits Clym and tries to console him about the situation. She also brings Clym his share of the inheritance money; T... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n2--He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song",
"The result of that unpropitious interview was that Eustacia, instead\nof passing the afternoon with her grandfather, hastily returned home to\nClym, where she arrived three hours earlier than she had been expected.",
"She came indoors with her ... |
2,691 | 122_book_4,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Eustacia shuts down and things are very tense between her and Clym. He confronts his wife over dinner one night and asks if she idealized him and saw him as some sort of hero and not a real person. They argue some more and Clym tells Eustacia that she can go her own way if she needs to and that he loves her anyway. Eus... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n3--She Goes Out to Battle against Depression",
"A few days later, before the month of August has expired, Eustacia and\nYeobright sat together at their early dinner.",
"Eustacia's manner had become of late almost apathetic. There was a\nforlorn look about her beautiful eyes which, whether she deserv... |
2,692 | 122_book_4,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Diggory Venn is a man on a mission. And that mission is to terrorize Damon Wildeve. Diggory stalks him and manages to prevent Damon from heading over to Eustacia's house to see her. Damon gets increasingly frustrated and starts using more covert means to talk to Eustacia. But Diggory shoots at Damon and drives him away... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n4--Rough Coercion Is Employed",
"Those words of Thomasin, which seemed so little, but meant so much,\nremained in the ears of Diggory Venn: \"Help me to keep him home in the\nevenings.\"",
"On this occasion Venn had arrived on Egdon Heath only to cross to the\nother side--he had no further connectio... |
2,693 | 122_book_4,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's August and it's a super hot day. Mrs. Yeobright sets out in the heat to visit her son and her daughter-in-law. She's hot and exhausted and the walk is very long. She comes across a fellow furze-cutter who directs her to Clym's house. Mrs. Yeobright follows a familiar-looking figure and is stunned to discover that ... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n5--The Journey across the Heath",
"Thursday, the thirty-first of August, was one of a series of days during\nwhich snug houses were stifling, and when cool draughts were treats;\nwhen cracks appeared in clayey gardens, and were called \"earthquakes\" by\napprehensive children; when loose spokes were d... |
2,694 | 122_book_4,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The same day, Wildeve decides to just go visit Eustacia. He figures they're related by marriage and he can visit his extended family if he wants. Sure, Wildeve, sure. So Eustacia lets him inside and they chat. Clym is conked out taking an afternoon nap. The ex-lovers discuss Clym and how terrible Eustacia's life is. Wi... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n6--A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian",
"Wildeve, as has been stated, was determined to visit Eustacia boldly, by\nday, and on the easy terms of a relation, since the reddleman had spied\nout and spoilt his walks to her by night. The spell that she had thrown\nover him in the moonlight ... |
2,695 | 122_book_4,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Back at Casa Clym, Clym has woken up from his nap. Turns out, he was dreaming about his mother. Eustacia is feeling very guilty and keeps her mouth shut. She acts very awkward. Clym finally decides to just go to his mother's house himself to make amends. Eustacia tries to convince him not to go but drops the subject wh... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n7--The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends",
"He in the meantime had aroused himself from sleep, sat up, and looked\naround. Eustacia was sitting in a chair hard by him, and though she held\na book in her hand she had not looked into it for some time.",
"\"Well, indeed!\" said Clym, brushing his eyes ... |
2,696 | 122_book_4,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Eustacia is alone and is getting increasingly anxious about Clym. OK, she's getting anxious about herself really. Eustacia's grandpa stops by to gossip on his way home. He tells her that Damon has recently inherited a ton of money and points out that Eustacia probably wishes she married Damon now instead. Eustacia refu... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n</CHAPTER>\n8--Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil",
"In the meantime Eustacia, left alone in her cottage at Alderworth,\nhad become considerably depressed by the posture of affairs. The\nconsequences which might result from Clym's discovery that his mother\nhad been turned from his door ... |
2,697 | 122_book_5,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's now been three weeks since Mrs. Yeobright died. Eustacia is hanging around outside in her garden, as usual, and Humphrey stops by to ask after Clym. Clym is still inconsolable. Eustacia goes inside to speak to Clym. He's super depressed. Eustacia still hasn't said a word to him about not letting his mom in for a v... | [
"<CHAPTER>\nBOOK FIVE -- THE DISCOVERY\n1--\"Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery\"",
"One evening, about three weeks after the funeral of Mrs. Yeobright, when\nthe silver face of the moon sent a bundle of beams directly upon the\nfloor of Clym's house at Alderworth, a woman came forth from within. S... |
2,698 | 122_book_5,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Clym decides to emulate his wife and spends his evening standing outside in his garden, feeling depressed. Christian swings by to chat with him. Big mistake on Christian's part since Clym starts up with his "I'm guilty, woe is me" bit again. Plus, Clym does his amateur detective routine and tries to figure out, yet aga... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n2--A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding",
"Clym's grief became mitigated by wearing itself out. His strength\nreturned, and a month after the visit of Thomasin he might have been\nseen walking about the garden. Endurance and despair, equanimity and\ngloom, the tints of health and the ... |
2,699 | 122_book_5,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Clym grows increasingly furious on his way home. He storms in on Eustacia getting dressed and the two proceed to have an epic argument that lasts the entire chapter! Clym does most of the talking at first and yells at Eustacia. He basically accuses her of being a murderer and a whore since she's having an affair with a... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n3--Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning",
"A consciousness of a vast impassivity in all which lay around him took\npossession even of Yeobright in his wild walk towards Alderworth. He had\nonce before felt in his own person this overpowering of the fervid by\nthe inanimate; but then it had tend... |
2,700 | 122_book_5,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Eustacia wanders to her grandfather's house in a daze. Gramps isn't home, but young Charley, the mummer with the crush on Eustacia, is there. He looks after Eustacia since he still has a huge crush on her and is now seriously worried about her. Eustacia won't really explain what happened. She then starts eyeballing som... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n4--The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One",
"Eustacia's journey was at first as vague in direction as that of\nthistledown on the wind. She did not know what to do. She wished it had\nbeen night instead of morning, that she might at least have borne her\nmisery without the possibility of being seen... |
2,701 | 122_book_5,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Charley hangs out at the Vye house over the next few days and takes care of Eustacia. Soon it's the Fifth of November, which means it's time for a bonfire - yup, Guy Fawkes Night again already. Charley builds a big one for Eustacia to impress her and make her happy. Captain Vye comes out and approves of this effort to ... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n5--An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated",
"Charley's attentions to his former mistress were unbounded. The only\nsolace to his own trouble lay in his attempts to relieve hers. Hour\nafter hour he considered her wants; he thought of her presence there\nwith a sort of gratitude, and, while uttering imprec... |
2,702 | 122_book_5,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | During all of this, Clym is hanging out at his mother's house, feeling quite sorry for himself. He communes with nature, which Park Ranger Hardy describes in detail. Clym's feelings towards Eustacia are very complicated but he's starting to feel a bit bad about everything and wants to possibly reconcile. So Clym decide... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n6--Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter",
"Yeobright was at this time at Blooms-End, hoping that Eustacia would\nreturn to him. The removal of furniture had been accomplished only that\nday, though Clym had lived in the old house for more than a week. He had\nspent the time in worki... |
2,703 | 122_book_5,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Eustacia has decided to make a run for it with Damon. She spends her night preparing and goes for a walk to calm her nerves. Susan Nunsuch sees Eustacia and glares at her. Johnny is sick and Susan thinks that the "witch" Eustacia is to blame. Eustacia sends a signal to Damon and then goes home to wait for the time to l... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n7--The Night of the Sixth of November",
"Having resolved on flight Eustacia at times seemed anxious that\nsomething should happen to thwart her own intention. The only event that\ncould really change her position was the appearance of Clym. The glory\nwhich had encircled him as her lover was departed ... |
2,704 | 122_book_5,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Clym is sitting at home alone, waiting for Eustacia to come back to him after reading his letter. But Thomasin arrives with her baby instead and has bad news - her husband has gone out and she's afraid that he's going to run off with Eustacia. Clym says he'll go after Eustacia and tells Thomasin to just stay put with t... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n8--Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers",
"While the effigy of Eustacia was melting to nothing, and the fair woman\nherself was standing on Rainbarrow, her soul in an abyss of desolation\nseldom plumbed by one so young, Yeobright sat lonely at Blooms-End.\nHe had fulfilled his word to Thomasin by sen... |
2,705 | 122_book_5,_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | But first, flashback time. Damon has seen Eustacia's signal on the hill and goes to get ready. He's excited about their plans and is feeling good about his chance of getting Eustacia to be his mistress. So Damon sets off across the heath but instead of meeting Eustacia he meets Clym. The two meet by a pond, which has t... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n9--Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together",
"Having seen Eustacia's signal from the hill at eight o'clock, Wildeve\nimmediately prepared to assist her in her flight, and, as he hoped,\naccompany her. He was somewhat perturbed, and his manner of informing\nThomasin that he was going on a journey... |
2,706 | 122_book_6,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Damon and Eustacia are famous in their deaths and their love story is told and exaggerated far and wide. Damon had a bunch of debts so widowed Thomasin is now broke and has to move back in with Clym at Mrs. Yeobright's house. The two Yeobright cousins are seriously depressed, but Thomasin can at least take some comfort... | [
"<CHAPTER>\nBOOK SIX -- AFTERCOURSES\n1--The Inevitable Movement Onward",
"The story of the deaths of Eustacia and Wildeve was told throughout\nEgdon, and far beyond, for many weeks and months. All the known\nincidents of their love were enlarged, distorted, touched up, and\nmodified, till the original reality bo... |
2,707 | 122_book_6,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The mystery of the glove is solved - Thomasin's nurse, Rachel, borrowed Thomasin's gloves for the May Day party and lost one. Diggory was mooning over Thomasin's glove after all. Sweet! Thomasin is excited by this news since she's started to fall for Diggory now. She goes to confront Diggory about the glove business an... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n2--Thomasin Walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road",
"Clym saw little of Thomasin for several days after this; and when they\nmet she was more silent than usual. At length he asked her what she was\nthinking of so intently.",
"\"I am thoroughly perplexed,\" she said candidly. \"I cannot for my lif... |
2,708 | 122_book_6,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Clym continues to worry about his relationship with Thomasin and convinces himself that she has a crush on him. Clym decides he's too busy for such nonsense - he has to prepare for his new job as an itinerant preacher. Thomasin comes in one day and tells Clym that Diggory has proposed and she is considering accepting. ... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n3--The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin",
"Throughout this period Yeobright had more or less pondered on his duty\nto his cousin Thomasin. He could not help feeling that it would be a\npitiful waste of sweet material if the tender-natured thing should be\ndoomed from this early stage of her l... |
2,709 | 122_book_6,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's the day of Thomasin and Diggory's wedding and all the locals are gathered for the occasion. The locals all cheer when they see Diggory and Thomasin and everyone heads off for the wedding feast. Clym opts to not attend since he's still too depressed. Clym walks to Captain Vye's house and spies Charley, who is also ... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n4--Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His Vocation",
"Anybody who had passed through Blooms-End about eleven o'clock on the\nmorning fixed for the wedding would have found that, while Yeobright's\nhouse was comparatively quiet, sounds denoting great activity came from\nthe... |
2,710 | 122_chapters_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Near twilight on a Saturday in November, Egdon Heath slowly turns dark. It has changed little from the way it was described in ancient times. The only evidence of activity is an old highway and an even olderbarrow . An old man in clothes of nautical style makes his way along this highway and presently catches up with a... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n1--A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression",
"A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight,\nand the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned\nitself moment by moment. Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud\nshutting out the sky was as a tent... |
2,664 | 122_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The figures on Rainbarrow are the heath folk come to build the traditional Fifth of November bonfire. The group includes, among others, Timothy Fairway, Grandfer Cantle, Christian Cantle, Humphrey, Sam, Olly Dowden, and Susan Nunsuch. As they watch the fire, they discuss the marriage of Thomasin Yeobright, Mrs. Yeobrig... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n3--The Custom of the Country",
"Had a looker-on been posted in the immediate vicinity of the barrow,\nhe would have learned that these persons were boys and men of the\nneighbouring hamlets. Each, as he ascended the barrow, had been heavily\nladen with furze faggots, carried upon the shoulder by means... |
2,711 | 122_chapters_4-5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Outside the inn Mrs. Yeobright meets the reddleman, Diggory Venn, who she has been told is looking for her. He informs her that he has her niece in his van, and Mrs. Yeobright immediately goes to the girl. She very soon learns from Thomasin that the girl has returned home alone from Anglebury, where she and Wildeve wer... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n4--The Halt on the Turnpike Road",
"Down, downward they went, and yet further down--their descent at each\nstep seeming to outmeasure their advance. Their skirts were scratched\nnoisily by the furze, their shoulders brushed by the ferns, which,\nthough dead and dry, stood erect as when alive, no suffi... |
2,712 | 122_chapters_6-7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On Rainbarrow again, Eustacia Vye impatiently waits for Wildeve to respond to her signal. After watching the inn for some time, she returns to the fire before her grandfather's house and persuades Johnny Nunsuch, her young assistant, to continue his work of feeding the blaze. When Wildeve signals his approach, she send... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n6--The Figure against the Sky",
"When the whole Egdon concourse had left the site of the bonfire to its\naccustomed loneliness, a closely wrapped female figure approached the\nbarrow from that quarter of the heath in which the little fire lay. Had\nthe reddleman been watching he might have recognized ... |
2,713 | 122_chapters_8-9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | His work for Eustacia completed, Johnny Nunsuch returns home only to be frightened by a strange light on the heath. He returns to Captain Vye's to find Eustacia in conversation with Wildeve. Confused, he goes back in the direction of the light. By chance he is discovered as he spies on what turns out to be the reddlema... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n8--Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody",
"As soon as the sad little boy had withdrawn from the fire he clasped\nthe money tight in the palm of his hand, as if thereby to fortify his\ncourage, and began to run. There was really little danger in allowing a\nchild to go home alone on thi... |
2,714 | 122_chapters_10-11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Venn calls on Eustacia and is unable to persuade her to help Thomasin, he plays his trump card of telling Eustacia that he has overheard her and Wildeve. The more Venn tries to argue her out of her relationship with Wildeve, the more determined Eustacia is to maintain it. Defeated here, Venn offers himself to Mrs.... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n10--A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion",
"The next morning, at the time when the height of the sun appeared very\ninsignificant from any part of the heath as compared with the altitude\nof Rainbarrow, and when all the little hills in the lower levels were\nlike an archipelago in a fog-formed Aegean, th... |
2,715 | 122_chapters_1-3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Eustacia overhears her grandfather and Humphrey and Sam discussing the kind of life Clym Yeobright has been living in Paris. Humphrey suggests, when Captain Vye leaves, that Eustacia and Clym would make a fine couple. The conversation sets her to daydreaming about Clym, and she walks down to look at the Yeobright house... | [
"<CHAPTER>\nBOOK TWO -- THE ARRIVAL\n1--Tidings of the Comer",
"On the fine days at this time of the year, and earlier, certain\nephemeral operations were apt to disturb, in their trifling way, the\nmajestic calm of Egdon Heath. They were activities which, beside those\nof a town, a village, or even a farm, would... |
2,716 | 122_chapters_4-6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Taking advantage of the fact that the mummers are practicing the traditional Christmas play in her grandfather's fuel house, Eustacia arranges to take Charley's place on the night it is to be given at Mrs. Yeobright's party. Her motive is to encounter Clym. Wearing Charley's costume, she joins the mummers that night, a... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n4--Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure",
"In the evening of this last day of expectation, which was the\ntwenty-third of December, Eustacia was at home alone. She had passed\nthe recent hour in lamenting over a rumour newly come to her ears--that\nYeobright's visit to his mother was to be of short dura... |
2,717 | 122_chapters_7-8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Eustacia next meets Venn, she finds out that he is not really going to marry Thomasin and agrees to encourage the young woman's marriage to Wildeve. Venn volunteers to deliver a letter for Eustacia to Wildeve on Rainbarrow that night, and after reading its contents Wildeve is determined to marry Thomasin to make E... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n7--A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness",
"The old captain's prevailing indifference to his granddaughter's\nmovements left her free as a bird to follow her own courses; but it so\nhappened that he did take upon himself the next morning to ask her why\nshe had walked out so late.",
"\"Only in sear... |
2,718 | 122_chapters_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Clym is seen by the heath dwellers as a rather special person not only because of his unusual reputation as a boy but also because of his position in the diamond business in far-off Paris. Therefore, when he tells the group at the haircutting at Fairway's that he has come home to make himself into a schoolteacher, they... | [
"<CHAPTER>\nBOOK THREE -- THE FASCINATION\n1--\"My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is\"",
"In Clym Yeobright's face could be dimly seen the typical countenance\nof the future. Should there be a classic period to art hereafter, its\nPheidias may produce such faces. The view of life as a thing to be put\nup with, replacing th... |
2,719 | 122_chapters_3-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Clym goes to Captain Vye's, saying he wants to help with the lost bucket. He really wants to meet Eustacia. He meets her, and after she suffers a slight injury assisting him in getting water from the well, he tries to get her to admit she is the young woman he met in mummer's costume at Mrs. Yeobright's party. She will... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n3--The First Act in a Timeworn Drama",
"The afternoon was fine, and Yeobright walked on the heath for an hour\nwith his mother. When they reached the lofty ridge which divided the\nvalley of Blooms-End from the adjoining valley they stood still and\nlooked round. The Quiet Woman Inn was visible on the... |
2,720 | 122_chapters_5-6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Mrs. Yeobright discovers that Clym and Eustacia are engaged, her comments to him are bitter and typical of those of a mother to a son. Clym tells his mother that he will move out of the house, and when he meets Eustacia he says they must marry right away, though it will mean living in a small cottage on the heath ... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n5--Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues",
"When Yeobright was not with Eustacia he was sitting slavishly over his\nbooks; when he was not reading he was meeting her. These meetings were\ncarried on with the greatest secrecy.",
"One afternoon his mother came home from a morning visit to Thomas... |
2,721 | 122_chapters_7-8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While the marriage of Clym and Eustacia takes place, Mrs. Yeobright stays at home, miserable and unable to avoid thinking about it. When Wildeve calls to pick up something Thomasin was going to get from her aunt, though he doesn't know it is money , Mrs. Yeobright refuses to send the coins with him but decides it would... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n7--The Morning and the Evening of a Day",
"The wedding morning came. Nobody would have imagined from appearances\nthat Blooms-End had any interest in Mistover that day. A solemn\nstillness prevailed around the house of Clym's mother, and there was no\nmore animation indoors. Mrs. Yeobright, who had de... |
2,722 | 122_chapters_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Clym and Eustacia live a secluded life in the house at Alderworth, and he resumes his study, though she still hopes he will eventually take her to Paris. Mrs. Yeobright, puzzled because Clym has never acknowledged receipt of the guineas and then learning from Christian that Wildeve won them in gambling, visits Eustacia... | [
"<CHAPTER>\nBOOK FOUR -- THE CLOSED DOOR\n1--The Rencounter by the Pool",
"The July sun shone over Egdon and fired its crimson heather to scarlet.\nIt was the one season of the year, and the one weather of the season,\nin which the heath was gorgeous. This flowering period represented the\nsecond or noontide divi... |
2,723 | 122_chapters_3-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Determined to fight off her depression, Eustacia decides to go to a "gipsying," or dance, in East Egdon. Envious of the young people dancing, and later, surprised by Wildeve's presence there, she consents to dance with her former lover and enjoys it more than she can understand. Allowing Wildeve to walk part way home w... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n3--She Goes Out to Battle against Depression",
"A few days later, before the month of August has expired, Eustacia and\nYeobright sat together at their early dinner.",
"Eustacia's manner had become of late almost apathetic. There was a\nforlorn look about her beautiful eyes which, whether she deserv... |
2,724 | 122_chapters_5-6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On an extremely hot day at the end of August, Mrs. Yeobright sets off across the heath to visit Clym and Eustacia, but loses her way to the unfamiliar village of Alderworth, where they live. Seeking directions, she is told to follow a furze cutter going along a path. She does so, only to realize finally that it is her ... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n5--The Journey across the Heath",
"Thursday, the thirty-first of August, was one of a series of days during\nwhich snug houses were stifling, and when cool draughts were treats;\nwhen cracks appeared in clayey gardens, and were called \"earthquakes\" by\napprehensive children; when loose spokes were d... |
2,725 | 122_chapters_7-8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Though Eustacia objects, fearful that he will find out what she has done, Clym is determined to waste no more time in going to see his mother. On the way, he discovers her prostrate and carries her to a hut not far from Blooms-End. When he returns with help, they discover she has been bitten by an adder, and they decid... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n7--The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends",
"He in the meantime had aroused himself from sleep, sat up, and looked\naround. Eustacia was sitting in a chair hard by him, and though she held\na book in her hand she had not looked into it for some time.",
"\"Well, indeed!\" said Clym, brushing his eyes ... |
2,697 | 122_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | ummary For several weeks after his mother's death, Clym lies ill and sometimes irrational. He blames himself for her death and will not be consoled by Eustacia. Even Thomasin, for whom he once had a special affection, cannot comfort him. When Wildeve calls for his wife, Eustacia uses the opportunity to speak of her des... | [
"<CHAPTER>\nBOOK FIVE -- THE DISCOVERY\n1--\"Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery\"",
"One evening, about three weeks after the funeral of Mrs. Yeobright, when\nthe silver face of the moon sent a bundle of beams directly upon the\nfloor of Clym's house at Alderworth, a woman came forth from within. S... |
2,726 | 122_chapters_2-3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Having recovered from his illness, Clym questions Christian Cantle -- who has come to announce the birth of Thomasin's child -- about the day his mother died, and discovers she planned to visit her son's house. Christian tells him that Venn talked with Mrs. Yeobright that day, and Clym is anxious to find the reddleman.... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n2--A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding",
"Clym's grief became mitigated by wearing itself out. His strength\nreturned, and a month after the visit of Thomasin he might have been\nseen walking about the garden. Endurance and despair, equanimity and\ngloom, the tints of health and the ... |
2,727 | 122_chapters_4-5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Knowing nowhere else to go, Eustacia returns to her grandfather's house. She is looked after by Charley, her admirer from the time before she was married. When she moodily contemplates the pistols in Captain Vye's room, he removes them, later replying to her questions that he cannot allow her to injure herself. Knowing... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n4--The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One",
"Eustacia's journey was at first as vague in direction as that of\nthistledown on the wind. She did not know what to do. She wished it had\nbeen night instead of morning, that she might at least have borne her\nmisery without the possibility of being seen... |
2,702 | 122_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Now living at his mother's house, Clym waits, expecting to hear from Eustacia. On the Fifth of November evening, he goes to see Thomasin and Wildeve, though he doesn't know Wildeve is then on his way to see Eustacia at her grandfather's house. Since Thomasin doesn't know, he tells her of the state of affairs between hi... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n6--Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter",
"Yeobright was at this time at Blooms-End, hoping that Eustacia would\nreturn to him. The removal of furniture had been accomplished only that\nday, though Clym had lived in the old house for more than a week. He had\nspent the time in worki... |
2,728 | 122_chapters_7-8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Deciding on the next evening, the sixth, to leave, Eustacia signals Wildeve as planned. When the letter for her from Clym arrives, she is in her bedroom, and Captain Vye doesn't give it to her because he assumes she is asleep. When he finally realizes she has left the house, it is too late. Though it is now raining, Eu... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n7--The Night of the Sixth of November",
"Having resolved on flight Eustacia at times seemed anxious that\nsomething should happen to thwart her own intention. The only event that\ncould really change her position was the appearance of Clym. The glory\nwhich had encircled him as her lover was departed ... |
2,705 | 122_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Having left with a horse and gig, Wildeve waits below the inn for Eustacia. But it is Clym who approaches, looking for Eustacia, and just as he and Wildeve recognize each other, Clym hears what is clearly a body falling into the swollen stream adjoining Shadwater Weir. Both men, sure it is Eustacia who has fallen in or... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n9--Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together",
"Having seen Eustacia's signal from the hill at eight o'clock, Wildeve\nimmediately prepared to assist her in her flight, and, as he hoped,\naccompany her. He was somewhat perturbed, and his manner of informing\nThomasin that he was going on a journey... |
2,729 | 122_chapters_1-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Thomasin receives a substantial inheritance after Wildeve's death and then moves in with Clym by choice. Clym occupies himself in preparing for his vocation of preacher. Now a dairy farmer and normal in color, Venn comes calling and Thomasin is pleased to see him. On Maypole Day, Venn manages to obtain one of Thomasin'... | [
"<CHAPTER>\nBOOK SIX -- AFTERCOURSES\n1--The Inevitable Movement Onward",
"The story of the deaths of Eustacia and Wildeve was told throughout\nEgdon, and far beyond, for many weeks and months. All the known\nincidents of their love were enlarged, distorted, touched up, and\nmodified, till the original reality bo... |
2,730 | 122_book_1,_chapters_1-5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Return of the Native opens with a chapter describing sundown on Egdon Heath, the stage upon which the drama of the novel unfolds. The heath is a "vast tract of unenclosed wild," a somber, windswept stretch of brown hills and valleys, virtually treeless, covered in briars and thorn-bushes: "the storm was its lover, ... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n1--A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression",
"A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight,\nand the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned\nitself moment by moment. Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud\nshutting out the sky was as a tent... |
2,731 | 122_book_1,_chapters_6-11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Now that the bonfire on Rainbarrow is abandoned, the still-unnamed woman seen earlier by Diggory Venn returns to the top of Rainbarrow. The wind dominates the heath at this hour, drawing a whisper from the withered blades on the heath. But the woman is not listening to the wind: through a telescope, she watches a light... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n6--The Figure against the Sky",
"When the whole Egdon concourse had left the site of the bonfire to its\naccustomed loneliness, a closely wrapped female figure approached the\nbarrow from that quarter of the heath in which the little fire lay. Had\nthe reddleman been watching he might have recognized ... |
2,732 | 122_book_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Local workers are building a pile of firewood outside Captain Vye's house. From indoors, Eustacia Vye hears them talking about the imminent return to the heath of Clym Yeobright, who has been working as a diamond merchant in Paris. The local laborer Humphrey mentions that Eustacia and Clym would make a good couple, an ... | [
"<CHAPTER>\nBOOK TWO -- THE ARRIVAL\n1--Tidings of the Comer",
"On the fine days at this time of the year, and earlier, certain\nephemeral operations were apt to disturb, in their trifling way, the\nmajestic calm of Egdon Heath. They were activities which, beside those\nof a town, a village, or even a farm, would... |
2,733 | 122_book_3,_chapters_1-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Book III, "The Fascination," begins with a more detailed description of Clym Yeobright than we have yet been given. Clym is a thoughtful and morose young man, who tolerates life rather than truly enjoying it. It was believed from Clym's youth that he had great potential, and he became something of a local celebrity, wi... | [
"<CHAPTER>\nBOOK THREE -- THE FASCINATION\n1--\"My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is\"",
"In Clym Yeobright's face could be dimly seen the typical countenance\nof the future. Should there be a classic period to art hereafter, its\nPheidias may produce such faces. The view of life as a thing to be put\nup with, replacing th... |
2,734 | 122_book_3,_chapters_5-8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Again, Clym Yeobright fights with his mother over his career plans, and his relationship with Eustacia Vye. Their fights, which have gone on for a while, escalate to the point where Mrs. Yeobright implies that Clym is no longer welcome in her house. Despondent, Clym meets with Eustacia, and during their walk on the hea... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n5--Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues",
"When Yeobright was not with Eustacia he was sitting slavishly over his\nbooks; when he was not reading he was meeting her. These meetings were\ncarried on with the greatest secrecy.",
"One afternoon his mother came home from a morning visit to Thomas... |
2,735 | 122_book_4,_chapters_1-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Summertime finds Clym Yeobright and his new wife Eustacia installed in their cottage on the heath; they are happy for the meantime, but Eustacia has not given up her ambitions to move to Paris, while Clym remains dedicated to becoming a schoolteacher on the heath. Mrs. Yeobright has become resentful because she has not... | [
"<CHAPTER>\nBOOK FOUR -- THE CLOSED DOOR\n1--The Rencounter by the Pool",
"The July sun shone over Egdon and fired its crimson heather to scarlet.\nIt was the one season of the year, and the one weather of the season,\nin which the heath was gorgeous. This flowering period represented the\nsecond or noontide divi... |
2,736 | 122_book_4,_chapters_5-8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Yeobright, honoring her agreement with Diggory Venn, sets off across the heath to visit her son Clym and her daughter-in-law Eustacia, in an attempt to reconcile with them. It is the hottest day of summer, and the older woman becomes exhausted. On her way, she sees an anonymous furze-cutter walking in front of her... | [
"<CHAPTER>\n5--The Journey across the Heath",
"Thursday, the thirty-first of August, was one of a series of days during\nwhich snug houses were stifling, and when cool draughts were treats;\nwhen cracks appeared in clayey gardens, and were called \"earthquakes\" by\napprehensive children; when loose spokes were d... |
2,737 | 122_book_v | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Devastated by his mother's death, and imagining himself responsible, Clym falls into a long period of illness and depression. Eustacia, who has kept secret her role in Mrs. Yeobright's death, feels unhappier than ever, and increasingly takes solace in Damon Wildeve's company. When Clym recovers from his histrionics, he... | [
"<CHAPTER>\nBOOK FIVE -- THE DISCOVERY\n1--\"Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery\"",
"One evening, about three weeks after the funeral of Mrs. Yeobright, when\nthe silver face of the moon sent a bundle of beams directly upon the\nfloor of Clym's house at Alderworth, a woman came forth from within. S... |
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