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When Yeobright reached the cottage of Susan Nunsuch, the ht, he found that the inmates were not yet astir But in upland haly swift and easy There no dense partition of yawns and toilets divides huht tapped at the upper sill, which he could reach with his walking stick; and in three or four minutes the woman came down

It was not till this moment that Clym recollected her to be the person who had behaved so barbarously to Eustacia It partly explained the insuavity hich the woain; and Susan now, as ever since the night when he had been pressed into Eustacia's service at the bonfire, attributed his indispositions to Eustacia's influence as a witch It was one of those sentiments which lurk like moles underneath the visible surface of manners, and may have been kept alive by Eustacia's entreaty to the captain, at the ti in church, to let the ht overcanance, for Susan had at least borne his mother no ill-will He asked kindly for the boy; but her manner did not iht, with so more of his ith arded hi manner To anybody but a half-blind man it would have said, "You want another of the knocks which have already laid you so low"

She called the boy downstairs, asked Clym to sit down on a stool, and continued, "Now, Johnny, tell Mr Yeobright anything you can call to otten how you walked with the poor lady on that hot day?" said Clym

"No," said the boy

"And what she said to you?"

The boy repeated the exact words he had used on entering the hut Yeobright rested his elbow on the table and shaded his face with his hand; and the mother looked as if she wondered how ahi to Alderworth when you firstaway"

"That can't be"

"Yes; she walked along withaway, too"