iv CONTENTS.
CHAPTER PAGE
XVII. Adventures by the Shore .... 206
XYIII. Doubts Arise — Doubts Vanish . . . 210
XIX. Oak's Advancement — A Great Hope . 219
XX. The Sheep" Fair — Trot Touches his Wife's Hand 228
XXI. Bathsheba Talks with Her Outrider . 252
XXII. Converging Courses . . . . . 266
XXIII. CONCURRITUR — HoRiE MOMENTO . . 284
XXIV. After the Shock 303
XXV. The March following — " Bathsheba Boldwood" 310
XXVI. Beauty in Loneliness — After All . . . 318
XXVII. A Foggy Night and Morning — Conclusion. 333
LIST OF ILLUSTEATIONS.
Bathsheba flung her Hands to her Face Frontispiece.
" There's not a Soul in my House but me
To-night" ..... To face page 53
She opened a Gate within which was a Hay- stack. Under this she sat down . . „ 106
Bending over Fanny Kobin, he gently kissed her „ 167
He saw a Bather carried along in the Current ,, 216
Troy next advanced into the Middle of the
Room and took off his Cap . . . „ 299
