The Thomas Hardy Library
In which the languorous atmosphere of the oat-harvest is punctuated by Cain Ball’s excitable report from Bath, describing Miss Everdene’s encounter with a soldier in a manner both vivid and comically hindered by his incessant coughing. The gathered labourers listen with a mixture of curiosity, reverence, and jest, as the tale evokes glimpses of distant life and stirs gentle reflections upon human nature and the inequalities of the world.
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