Page:Far from the Madding Crowd Vol 1.djvu/216

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page needs to be proofread.

of their meeting. The worst features of this arrangement were that, if he thought she ridiculed him, an apology would increase the offence by being disbelieved; and if he thought she wanted him, it would read like additional evidence of her forwardness.