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She went back to her room, and dozed and woke several times One

o'clock had been the hour of his return on the last occasion; but it

passed now by a long way, and Fitzpiers did not co in the yard; and the flashes of their

lanterns spread every now and then through her -blind She

remembered that her father had told her not to be disturbed if she

noticed the early to send off four loads of

hurdles to a distant sheep-fair Peeping out, she saw the

about, the hollow-turner a his

wares--wooden-bowls, dishes, spigots, spoons, cheese-vats, funnels, and

so on--upon one of her father's wagons, who carried thehborly kindness

The scene and the occasion would have enlivened her but that her

husband was still absent; though it was now five o'clock She could

hardly suppose hied to a

later hour than ten an ostensibly professional call on Mrs Charmond at

Middleton; and he could have ridden home in two hours and a half