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A MERE INTERLUDE
A COMPLETE STORY
By THOMAS HARDY
Author of "Far from the Madding Crowd," "Tess of the D'Ubervilles," "Under the Greenwood Tree," "Trumpet Major," "Two on a Tower," etc. etc.
I.IT was often said, and oftener surmised that Baptista Trewthen was a young woman with scarcely emotions or character. There was nothing in her to love, and nothing to hate—so ran the general opinion. That she showed few positive qualities was true. The colours and tones which changing events paint on the faces of active womankind were looked for in vain upon hers. But still waters run deep; and no crisis had come in the years of her early maidenhood to demonstrate what lay hidden within her, like metal in a mine.
She was the daughter of a small farmer in St. Maria's, one of the Isles of Lyonesse beyond Off–Wessex, who had spent a large sum, as there understood, on her education, by sending her to the mainland for two years. At nineteen she was entered at the Training College for Teachers, and at twenty-one nominated to a school in the country, near Tor-upon-Sea, whither she proceeded after the Christmas examination and holidays.
The months passed by from winter to spring and summer, and Bapt
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