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The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-imaginary county of Wessex, delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. Hardy's poetry, first published in his fifties, has come to be as well regarded as his novels, especially after the 1960s Movement. Source: Wikipedia  \nAlso available on Feedbooks Hardy:  \n Tess ofthe d'Urbervilles (1891)  \n Jude The Obscure (1895)  \n Far from theMadding Crowd (1874)  \n Desperate Remedies (1874)  \n A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873)  \n The Three Strangers (1883)  \n A Changed Man and Other Tales (1913)  \n Under the Greenwood Tree (1872)  \n The Woodlanders (1887)  \n The Trumpet-Major (1880)  \nCopyright: This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.  \nNote: This book is brought to you by Feedbooks  \n[http://www.feedbooks.com](http://www.feedbooks.com)  \nStrictly for personal use, do not use this file for commercial purposes.  \nCh t 1   \nap er  \nOne evening of late summer, before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span, a young man and woman, the latter carrying a child, were approaching the large village of Weydon-Priors, in Upper Wessex, on foot. They were plainly but not ill clad, though the thick hoar of dust which had accumulated on their shoes and garments from an obviously long journey lent a disadvantageous shabbiness to their appearance just now.  \nThe man was of fine figure, swarthy, and stern in aspect; and he showed in profile a facial angle so slightly inclined as to be almost perpendicular. He wore a short jacket of brown corduroy, newer than the remainder of his suit, which was a fustian waistcoat with white horn buttons, breeches of the same, tanned leggings, and a straw hat overlaid with black glazed canvas. At his back he carried by a looped strap a rush basket, from which protruded at one end the crutch of a hay-knife, a wimble for hay-bonds being also visible in the aperture. His measured, springless walk was the walk of the skilled countryman as distinct from the desultory shamble of the general labourer; while in the turn and plant of each foot there was, further, a dogged and cynical indifference personal to himself, showing its presence even in the regularly interchanging fustian folds, now in the left leg, now in the right, as he paced along.  \nWhat was really peculiar, however, in this couple's progress, and would have attracted the attention of any casual observer otherwise disposed to overlook them, was the perfect silence they preserved. They walked side by side in such a way as to suggest afar off the low, easy, confidential chat of people full of reciprocity; but on closer view it could be discerned that theman was reading, or pretending to read, a ballad sheet which he kept before his eyes with some difficulty by the hand that was passed through the basket strap. Whether this apparent cause were the real cause, or whether it were an assumed one to escape an intercourse that would have been irksome to him, nobody but himself could have said precisely; but his taciturnity was unbroken, and the woman enjoyed no society whatever from  \nhis presence. Virtually she walked the highway alone, save for the child she bore. Sometimes the man's bent elbow almost touched her shoulder, for she kept as close to his side as was possible without actual contact, but she seemed to have no idea of taking his arm, nor he of offering it; and far from exhibiting surprise at his ignoring silence she appeared to receive it as a natural thing. If any word at all were uttered by the little group, it was an occasional whisper of the woman to the child—a tiny girl in short clothes and blue boots of knitted yarn—and the murmured babble of the child in reply.  \nThe chief—almost the","cbCaiixus5NDhd7S","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiixus5NDhd7S","pdf",2486714,309,"English","# Chapter 1\n## Arrival toward Weydon-Priors","[{\"question\":\"Chapter 1 of The Mayor of Casterbridge begins with whom and where?\",\"answer\":\"It begins with a young man and woman traveling on foot toward the village of Weydon-Priors in Upper Wessex, with the woman carrying a child.\"},{\"question\":\"What distinctive behavior stands out about the couple in the opening?\",\"answer\":\"They maintain a near-perfect silence while walking side by side, with the only sounds coming from the man’s ballad sheet reading and occasional whispers between the woman and the child.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the narration portray the couple’s relationship?\",\"answer\":\"The text suggests they are husband and wife and parents, conveying stale familiarity and closeness that feels tense, limited, and emotionally guarded.\"}]","The Mayor of Casterbridge - Chapter 1 - One evening of late summer | PDF",476]