...Far from the Madding Crowd THOMAS HARDY 1874 Contents 1 DESCRIPTION OF FARMER OAK — AN INCIDENT . .... ...Far from the Madding Crowd THOMAS HARDY 1874 Contents 1 DESCRIPTION OF FARMER OAK — AN INCIDENT . . . . . ... ...AN INTERIOR — AN OTHER INTERIOR I T was nearly midnight on the eve of St. Thomas’s, the shortest day in the year. A desolating wind wandered from the... ...uld not help, but by letting her know that he had seen it. For, as without law there is no sin, without eyes there is no indecorum; and she appeared t... ...y no means uninteresting intrinsically. If report spoke truly they were as hardy, merry, thriving, wicked a set as any in the whole county. Oak resolv... ...ddle age, with eyebrows high up in his forehead, who laid it down that the law of the world was bad, with a long suffering look through his listeners... ...year turnip hoeing; and I was fourteen times eleven months at Millpond St. Jude’s’ (nodding north west by north). ‘Old Twills wouldn’t hire me for mo... ... and this is not. So they will have to be published in both.’ ‘Is that the law?’ ‘Yes. O Frank — you think me forward, I am afraid! Don’t, dear Frank ...