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      THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE

      Thomas Hardy

      Table of Contents

       Title Page

History of Collins

Life & Times

PREFACE

BOOK ONE—THE THREE WOMEN

Chapter 1: A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression

Chapter 2: Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble

Chapter 3: The Custom of the Country

Chapter 4: The Halt on the Turnpike Road

Chapter 5: Perplexity among Honest People

Chapter 6: The Figure against the Sky

Chapter 7: Queen of Night

Chapter 8: Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody

Chapter 9: Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy

Chapter 10: A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion

Chapter 11: The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman

       BOOK TWO—THE ARRIVAL

       Chapter 1: Tidings of the Comer

       Chapter 2: The People at Blooms-End Make Ready

       Chapter 3: How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream

       Chapter 4: Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure

       Chapter 5: Through the Moonlight

       Chapter 6: The Two Stand Face to Face

       Chapter 7: A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness

       Chapter 8: Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart

       BOOK THREE—THE FASCINATION

       Chapter 1: “My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is”

       Chapter 2: The New Course Causes Disappointment

       Chapter 3: The First Act in a Timeworn Drama

       Chapter 4: An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness

       Chapter 5: Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues

       Chapter 6: Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete

       Chapter 7: The Morning and the Evening of a Day

       Chapter 8: A New Force Disturbs the Current

       BOOK FOUR—THE CLOSED DOOR

       Chapter 1: The Rencounter by the Pool

       Chapter 2: He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song

       Chapter 3: She Goes Out to Battle against Depression

       Chapter 4: Rough Coercion Is Employed

       Chapter 5: The Journey across the Heath

       Chapter 6: A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian

       Chapter 7: The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends

       Chapter 8: Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil

       BOOK FIVE—THE DISCOVERY

       Chapter 1: “Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery”

       Chapter 2: A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding

       Chapter 3: Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning

       Chapter 4: The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One

       Chapter 5: An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated

       Chapter 6: Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter

       Chapter 7: The Night of the Sixth of November

       Chapter 8: Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers

       Chapter 9: Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together