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elbow – fence – folk – inch – neighbours – nose – objection – patch – property – stick
Tis Maypole-day tomorrow, and the Shadwater Fill in the blank 1 of 10 have clubbed together with a few of your Fill in the blank 2 of 10 here to have a pole on the nice green heath below your garden.” Venn waved his Fill in the blank 3 of 10 towards the Fill in the blank 4 of 10 in front of the house. “I have been talking to Fairway about it,” he continued, “and I said to him that before we put up the pole we ought to ask Mrs. Wildeve.”
“I can say nothing against it,” she answered. “Our Fill in the blank 5 of 10 does not reach an Fill in the blank 6 of 10 further than the white Fill in the blank 7 of 10 .”
“But you might not like to see a lot of folk going crazy round a Fill in the blank 8 of 10 , under your very Fill in the blank 9 of 10 ?”
“I shall have no Fill in the blank 10 of 10 at all.”
amber – beanstalk – birch – curtains – customs – divinities – dwelling – garlands – green – hamlets – homage – radius – sunset – vitality – wilderness
Venn soon after went away, and in the evening Yeobright strolled as far as Fairway’s cottage. It was a lovely May Fill in the blank 1 of 15 , and the Fill in the blank 2 of 15 trees which grew on this edge of the vast Egdon Fill in the blank 3 of 15 had put on their new leaves, delicate as butterflies’ wings, and translucent, like Fill in the blank 4 of 15 .
Beside Fairway’s Fill in the blank 5 of 15 was an open space a little way from the road, and here were now collected all the young people from within a Fill in the blank 6 of 15 of a couple of miles. The pole lay with one end supported on a table, and women were busy wreathing it from the top downwards with wild-flowers.
The instincts of merry England lingered on here with exceptional Fill in the blank 7 of 15 , and the symbolic Fill in the blank 8 of 15 which tradition has attached to each season of the year were still a reality on Egdon. Indeed, the instincts of all such remote Fill in the blank 9 of 15 are pagan still — in these spots Fill in the blank 10 of 15 to nature, self-adoration, frantic gaieties, fragments of Teutonic rites to Fill in the blank 11 of 15 whose names are forgotten, seem in some way or other to have survived medieval religion.
Yeobright did not interrupt the preparations, and went home again. The next morning, when Thomasin pulled back the Fill in the blank 12 of 15 of her bedroom window, there stood the Maypole in the middle of the Fill in the blank 13 of 15 , its top cutting into the sky. It had sprung up in the night, or rather early morning, like Jack’s Fill in the blank 14 of 15 . She opened the window to get a better view of the Fill in the blank 15 of 15 and posies that adorned it.
air – blossom – clothes – eyes – fragrance – hoops – manner – perfume – revel – taint
The sweet Fill in the blank 1 of 10 of the flowers had already spread into the surrounding Fill in the blank 2 of 10 , which, being free from every Fill in the blank 3 of 10 , carried to her lips a full measure of the Fill in the blank 4 of 10 received from the spire of Fill in the blank 5 of 10 in its midst.
At the top of the pole were crossed Fill in the blank 6 of 10 decked with small flowers; beneath these came a milk-white zone of Maybloom; then a zone of bluebells, then of cowslips, then of lilacs, then of ragged-robins, daffodils, and so on, till the lowest stage was reached. Thomasin noticed all these, and was delighted that the May Fill in the blank 7 of 10 was to be so near.
When afternoon came people began to gather on the green, and Yeobright was interested enough to look out upon them from the open window of his room. Soon after this Thomasin walked out from the door immediately below and turned her eyes up to her cousin’s face.
She was dressed more gaily than Yeobright had ever seen her dressed since the time of Wildeve’s death, eighteen months before.
“How pretty you look today, Thomasin!” he said. “Is it because of the Maypole?”
“Not altogether.” And then she blushed and dropped her Fill in the blank 8 of 10 , which he did not specially observe, though her Fill in the blank 9 of 10 seemed to him to be rather peculiar, considering that she was only addressing himself. Could it be possible that she had put on her summer Fill in the blank 10 of 10 to please him?
band – conduct – distress – eye – gate – grave – hedge – interest – members – plant – presence – pulse – relative – wind
He recalled her Fill in the blank 1 of 14 towards him throughout the last few weeks, when they had often been working together in the garden, just as they had formerly done when they were boy and girl under his mother’s Fill in the blank 2 of 14 . What if her Fill in the blank 3 of 14 in him were not so entirely that of a Fill in the blank 4 of 14 as it had formerly been?
This thought troubled him greatly. Every Fill in the blank 5 of 14 of loverlike feeling had gone into the Fill in the blank 6 of 14 with Eustacia. If he could ever love again, that love would be a Fill in the blank 7 of 14 of slow and laboured growth, and in the end only small and sickly, like an autumn-hatched bird.
This idea caused him such Fill in the blank 8 of 14 , that when the enthusiastic brass Fill in the blank 9 of 14 arrived and struck up, which it did about five o’clock, with apparently enough Fill in the blank 10 of 14 among its Fill in the blank 11 of 14 to blow down his house, he withdrew from his rooms by the back door, went down the garden, through the Fill in the blank 12 of 14 in the Fill in the blank 13 of 14 , and away out of sight. He could not bear to remain in the Fill in the blank 14 of 14 of enjoyment today, though he had tried hard.
dews – dusk – figure – patch – porch – reproach
Nothing was seen of him for four hours. When he came back by the same path it was Fill in the blank 1 of 6 , and the Fill in the blank 2 of 6 were coating every green thing. The boisterous music had ceased; but, entering the house as he did from behind, he could not see if the May party had all gone till he had passed through Thomasin’s part of the house to the front door. Thomasin was standing within the Fill in the blank 3 of 6 alone.
She gave him a look of Fill in the blank 4 of 6 . “You went away just when it began, Clym,” she said.
“Yes. I felt I could not join in. You went out with them, of course?”
“No, I did not.”
“You appeared to be dressed on purpose.”
“Yes, but I could not go out alone; so many people were there. One is there now.”
Yeobright strained his eyes across the dark-green Fill in the blank 5 of 6 beyond the fence, and near the black form of the Maypole he could make out a shadowy Fill in the blank 6 of 6 , strolling idly up and down. “Who is it?” he said.
“Mr. Venn,” said Thomasin.
“You might have asked him to come in, I think, Tamsie. He has been very kind to you first and last.”
“I will now,” she said; and went out through the gate to where Venn stood under the Maypole.
conclusion – disclosure – glove – lantern – maidens – moonlight – owner – reason – surprise – voice
“It is Mr. Venn, I think?” she inquired.
Venn started as if he had not seen her — artful man that he was — and said, “Yes.”
“Will you come in?”
“I am afraid that I—”
“I have seen you dancing this evening, and you had the very best of the girls for your partners. Is it that you won’t come in because you wish to stand here, and think over the past hours of enjoyment?”
“Well, that’s partly it,” said Mr. Venn. “But the main Fill in the blank 1 of 10 why I’m hanging around here like this is that I want to wait till the moon rises.”
“To see how pretty the Maypole looks in the Fill in the blank 2 of 10 ?”
“No. To look for a Fill in the blank 3 of 10 that was dropped by one of the Fill in the blank 4 of 10 .”
Thomasin was speechless with Fill in the blank 5 of 10 . That a man who had to walk some four or five miles to his home should wait here for such a reason pointed to only one Fill in the blank 6 of 10 — the man must be amazingly interested in that glove’s Fill in the blank 7 of 10 .
“Were you dancing with her, Diggory?” she asked, in a Fill in the blank 8 of 10 which revealed that he had made himself considerably more interesting to her by this Fill in the blank 9 of 10 .
“No,” he sighed.
“And you will not come in, then?”
“Not tonight, thank you, ma’am.”
“Shall I lend you a Fill in the blank 10 of 10 to look for the young person’s glove, Mr. Venn?”
“O no; it is not necessary, Mrs. Wildeve, thank you. The moon will rise in a few minutes.”
article – cot – curtain – dark – edge – form – grass – heart – hill – lips – meadows – pity – porch – tone – valley – valley
Thomasin went back to the Fill in the blank 1 of 16 . “Is he coming in?” said Clym, who had been waiting where she had left him.
“He would rather not tonight,” she said, and then passed by him into the house. After letting her pass, Clym too withdrew to his own rooms.
When Clym was gone Thomasin crept upstairs in the Fill in the blank 2 of 16 , and, just listening by the Fill in the blank 3 of 16 , to assure herself that the child was asleep, she went to the window, gently lifted the corner of the white Fill in the blank 4 of 16 , and looked out.
Venn was still there. She watched the growth of the faint radiance appearing in the sky by the eastern Fill in the blank 5 of 16 , till presently the Fill in the blank 6 of 16 of the moon burst upwards and flooded the Fill in the blank 7 of 16 with light. Diggory’s Fill in the blank 8 of 16 was now distinct on the green; he was evidently scanning the Fill in the blank 9 of 16 for the precious missing Fill in the blank 10 of 16 , walking in zigzags right and left till he should have passed over every foot of the ground.
“How very ridiculous!” Thomasin murmured to herself, in a Fill in the blank 11 of 16 which was intended to be satirical. “To think that a man should be so silly as to go mooning about like that for a girl’s glove! A respectable dairyman, too, and a man of money as he is now. What a Fill in the blank 12 of 16 !”
At last Venn appeared to find it, and he stood up and raised it to his Fill in the blank 13 of 16 . Then placing it in his breastpocket — as close as could be to his Fill in the blank 14 of 16 — he ascended the Fill in the blank 15 of 16 in a mathematically direct line towards his distant home in the Fill in the blank 16 of 16 .
choice – fellow – gloves – length – life – mistress – mystery – question – walk – walks
Clym saw little of Thomasin for several days after this; and when they met she was more silent than usual. At Fill in the blank 1 of 10 he asked her what she was thinking of so intently.
“I am thoroughly perplexed,” she said candidly. “I cannot for my Fill in the blank 2 of 10 think who it is that Diggory Venn is so much in love with. None of the girls at the Maypole were good enough for him, and yet she must have been there.”
Clym tried to imagine Venn’s Fill in the blank 3 of 10 for a moment; but ceasing to be interested in the Fill in the blank 4 of 10 he went on again with his gardening.
No clearing up of the Fill in the blank 5 of 10 was granted her for some time. But one afternoon Thomasin was upstairs getting ready for a Fill in the blank 6 of 10 , when she had reason to call for “Rachel.” Rachel was a girl about thirteen, who often took the baby out for Fill in the blank 7 of 10 , and she came upstairs at the call.
“Have you seen one of my last new Fill in the blank 8 of 10 about the house, Rachel?” inquired Thomasin. “It is the Fill in the blank 9 of 10 to this one.”
Rachel did not reply.
“Why don’t you answer?” said her Fill in the blank 10 of 10 .
“I think it is lost, ma’am.”
“Lost? Who lost it? I have never worn them but once.”
care – circumstances – explanation – frock – hands – manner – mat – midst – mind – place – practice – steps – tumble – turf
Rachel looked dreadfully troubled, and at last began to cry. “Please, ma’am, on the day of the Maypole I had none to wear, and I seed yours on the table, and I thought I would borrow ’em. I did not mean to hurt ’em at all, but one of them got lost. Somebody gave me some money to buy another pair for you, but I have not been able to go anywhere to get ’em.”
“Who’s somebody?”
“Mr. Venn.”
“Did he know it was my glove?”
“Yes. I told him.”
Thomasin was so surprised by the Fill in the blank 1 of 14 that she quite forgot to lecture the girl, who slipped silently away. Thomasin did not move further than to turn her eyes upon the grassy Fill in the blank 2 of 14 where the Maypole had stood. She remained thinking, then said to herself that she would not go out that afternoon, but would work hard at the baby’s unfinished lovely plaid Fill in the blank 3 of 14 . She sat over her work for two hours, but her Fill in the blank 4 of 14 worked much less than her Fill in the blank 5 of 14 .
Next day she went out as usual with little Eustacia, who was just learning to take her first steps in the world. Thomasin stopped in a quiet, grassy spot to give her a little private Fill in the blank 6 of 14 on the green Fill in the blank 7 of 14 , which formed a soft Fill in the blank 8 of 14 to fall headlong upon when the little girl’s balance failed her.
Once, bending down to raise her daughter after another Fill in the blank 9 of 14 , she was alarmed to discover a man on horseback close beside her, the soft natural carpet having muffled the horse’s Fill in the blank 10 of 14 . The rider, who was Venn, waved his hat in the air and bowed gallantly.
“Diggory, give me my glove,” said Thomasin, whose Fill in the blank 11 of 14 it was under any Fill in the blank 12 of 14 to plunge into the Fill in the blank 13 of 14 of a subject which interested her.
Venn immediately dismounted, put his hand in his breastpocket, and handed her the glove.
“Thank you. It was very good of you to take Fill in the blank 14 of 14 of it.”
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