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You may copy it , give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at [www.gutenberg.org](www.gutenberg.org)  \n[Title: The Mayor of Casterbridge](Title: The Mayor of Casterbridge)  \n[Author: Thomas Hardy](Author: Thomas Hardy)  \nRelease Date: May 28 , 2007 [EBook \\#143]  \n[This file was first posted on March 11 , 2006]  \nLanguage: English  \nCharacter set encoding : ASCII  \n*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE ***  \nProduced by John Hamm and David Widger  \nTHE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE  \nby Thomas Hardy  \nChapters  \n1.  6.  11.  16.  21.  26.  31.  36.  41.  \n2.  7.  12.  17.  22.  27.  32.  37.  42.  \n3.  8.  13.  18.  23.  28.  33.  38.  43.  \n4.  9.  14.  19.  24.  29.  34.  39.  44.  \n5. 10. 15. 20. 25. 30. 35. 40. 45.  \n1.  \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 WeydonPriors, 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 the man 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  \nsociety whatever from his 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 only—attraction of the young woman's face was its mobility. When she looked down sideways to the girl she became pretty, and even handsome, particularly that in the action her features c","cbCaifJlhjsL7TQ2","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifJlhjsL7TQ2","pdf",1181763,230,"English","# Chapters\n## Chapter 1\n## Chapter 2\n## Chapter 3\n## Chapter 4\n## Chapter 5\n## Chapter 6\n## Chapter 7\n## Chapter 8\n## Chapter 9\n## Chapter 10\n## Chapter 11\n## Chapter 12\n## Chapter 13\n## Chapter 14\n## Chapter 15\n## Chapter 16\n## Chapter 17\n## Chapter 18\n## Chapter 19\n## Chapter 20\n## Chapter 21\n## Chapter 22\n## Chapter 23\n## Chapter 24\n## Chapter 25\n## Chapter 26\n## Chapter 27\n## Chapter 28\n## Chapter 29\n## Chapter 30\n## Chapter 31\n## Chapter 32\n## Chapter 33\n## Chapter 34\n## Chapter 35\n## Chapter 36\n## Chapter 37\n## Chapter 38\n## Chapter 39\n## Chapter 40\n## Chapter 41\n## Chapter 42\n## Chapter 43\n## Chapter 44\n## Chapter 45","[{\"question\":\"Who is the young man and what does he do during the walk?\",\"answer\":\"The young man walks with a measured, skilled countryman’s step and preserves near-total silence while holding a ballad sheet as if reading, with farm tools visible in a basket at his back.\"},{\"question\":\"What role does the woman play in the opening scene?\",\"answer\":\"The woman carries their child and keeps her eyes mostly ahead with little interest, showing a mobile expression shaped by sun and shadow as she walks close to, but without contact, the man’s side.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the narrative set the mood and environment?\",\"answer\":\"The narration stresses the absence of conversation, letting environmental sounds stand out—birdsong first, then increasing distant shouts and rattles as they near the village.\"}]","The Mayor of Casterbridge - Chapters 1-45 | PDF",1789949979,354]