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"But randfather offers to assist us, if we require assistance"

"We don't require it If I go furze-cutting we shall be fairly well off"

"In coypt, and such people!" A bitter tear rolled down Eustacia's face, which he did not see There had been nonchalance in his tone, showing her that he felt no absolute grief at a consummation which to her was a positive horror

The very next day Yeobright went to Huloves, a whetstone, and a hook, to use till he should be able to purchase some for himself Then he sallied forth with his new fellow-labourer and old acquaintance, and selecting a spot where the furze grew thickest he struck the first blow in his adopted calling His sight, like the wings in Rasselas, though useless to hirand purpose, sufficed for this strait, and he found that when a little practice should have hardened his pal he would be able to ith ease

Day after day he rose with the sun, buckled on his leggings, and went off to the rendezvous with Humphrey His custo till noon; then, when the heat of the day was at its highest, to go hoain and working till dusk at nine

This uised by his leather accoutreed to wear over his eyes, that his closest friendhireen gorse, and nothing h frequently depressed in spirit when not actually at work, owing to thoughts of Eustacia's position and hisof labour he was cheerfully disposed and calm

His daily life was of a curiouslimited to a circuit of a few feet fros, and they seemed to enroll him in their band Bees hued at the heath and furze-flowers at his side in such nue adon produced, and which were never seen elsewhere, quivered in the breath of his lips, alighted upon his bowed back, and sported with the glittering point of his hook as he flourished it up and down Tribes of e aardly on their backs, heads, or hips, like unskilful acrobats, as chance ed themselves in noisy flirtations under the fern-fronds with silent ones of ho, and quite in a savage state, buzzed about hi that he was a lided in theirthe season i of their old skins, when their colours are brightest Litters of young rabbits came out from their for through the delicate tissue of each thin-fleshed ear, and firing it to a blood-red transparency in which the veins could be seen None of them feared him The monotony of his occupation soothed him, and was in itself a pleasure A forced limitation of effort offered a justification of homely courses to an unambitious man, whose conscience would hardly have allowed him to remain in such obscurity while his poere uni to hied to accoot-bonds he would amuse his companion with sketches of Parisian life and character, and so while away the time