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Life's Little Ironies : A Set Of Tales, With Some Colloquial Sketches, Entitled, A Few Crusted Characters
Life's Little Ironies A Set Of Tales With Some Colloquial Sketches Entitled A Few Crusted Characters Author:Thomas Hardy Life's little ironies : a set of tales, with some colloquial sketches, entitled, A few crusted characters - 1922 - by Taoaras HARDY - . TEE EIOIIQB VETO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PIB . 8 FOB CONSCIENCE SAKE . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 A TRAGEDY OF TWO AMBITION8 . . . . . . . . . 44 ON THE WESTERN CIRCUIT . . . . . . . . . . . 7 6 . . . . . .... more » . . . . . . . TO PLEASE HIS WIFE 107 THE MELANCHOLY HUSSAR OF THE GERM-LEGION . . 129 THh FIDDLER OF THE REELB . . . . . . . . . . 1 52 . . . . . . . . . . . . . A TRADITION OF 1804 175 A FEW CRUSTED CHARACTER . . . . . . . . . . 18 7 TONY KYTES. THE ARCH-DECEIVER . . . . . . 19 3 THE HISTORY OF THE HARDCOMEB . . . . . . 2 05 THE SUPERSTITIOUS MANS STORY . . . . . . 2 18 ILNDREY ZTCH AN E D T L HE PARSON AND CLERIC . 223 OLD ANDRJ Ys EXPERIENCE AS A MUSICIAN . 234 ABSENT-MINDEDNESS IN A PARISH CHOIR . . 238 THE WINTEW AND TEtE PALMLEYB . . . . . . 2 43 IP CXDENT IN THE LIFE OF MR . a s o n o E cnoox-HILL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 54 XETTY BARGENTS COPYIIOLD . . . . . . . . 2 60 THE SONS VETO To the eyes of a man viewing it from behind, the nut-brown hair was a wonder and a mystery. Under the black beaver hat, sllrmounted by its tuft of black W feathers, the long locks, braided and twisted and coiled t like the rushes of a basket, composed a rare, if somewhat barbaric, example of ingenious art. One could understand such weavings and coilings being wrought to last intact for a year, or even a calendar month but that they should be all demolished regularly at bedtime, after a single day of permanence, seemed a reckless waate of successful fabrication. And she had done it all herself, poor thing She had no maid, and it was almost the only accomplishment she could boast of. Hence the unstinted pains. She wae a young invalid lady-not so very much of an invalid-sitting in a wheeled chair, which had been pulled up in the front part of a green enclosure, close to a band-stand, where a concert was going on, during a warm June afternoon. It had place in one of the minor parks or private gardene that are to be found in the suburbs of London, and was the effort of a local association to raise money for some charity. There are worlds within worlds in the great city, and though nobody outside the immediate district had ever heard of the charity, or the band, or the garden, the enclosure was filled with an interested audience sufficient1 y informed on all these. As the strains proceeded many of the listenere observed the chaired lady, whose back hair, by reason of her prominent position, so challenged inspection. Her face was not easily discernible, but the aforeeaid cunning tress-weavings, the white ear and pollj and the curve of a cheek which was neither flaccid nor sallow, were signals that led to the expectation of good beauty in front...« less