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1  "I dare say you may see her," said Diggory gravely.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
2  "He is not at home yet, Diggory," she said pleasantly.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
3  Then I saw Diggory Venn, and was glad to get him to take me home.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People
4  "Man alive, you've been quick at it," said Diggory sarcastically.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
5  I have had a bitter experience on that score this last month, Diggory.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
6  I cannot, Diggory, marry you, or think of letting you call me your sweetheart.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
7  A few minutes later Clym came back again, and in his company came Diggory Venn.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart
8  Meanwhile Diggory Venn had returned to his van, where he stood looking thoughtfully into the stove.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
9  Diggory, having returned to the brink of the pool, observed that the small upper hatches or floats were withdrawn.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
10  Diggory withdrew with an emphatic step, Wildeve's eye passing over his form in withering derision, as if he were no more than a heath-cropper.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
11  Wildeve stood looking on the ground beside Venn's feet, till he allowed his eyes to travel upwards over Diggory's form, as illuminated by the candle, to his head and face.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
12  When Diggory Venn had gone quite away, Eustacia walked to the bank and looked down the wild and picturesque vale towards the sun, which was also in the direction of Wildeve's.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
13  But the sale of reddle was not Diggory's primary object in remaining on the heath, particularly at so late a period of the year, when most travellers of his class had gone into winter quarters.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
14  The report that Diggory had brought of the wedding, correct as far as it went, was deficient in one significant particular, which had escaped him through his being at some distance back in the church.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart
15  No sooner had Clym given her his arm and led her off the scene than the reddleman turned back from the beaten track towards East Egdon, whither he had been strolling merely to accompany Clym in his walk, Diggory's van being again in the neighbourhood.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
16  To his astonishment there stood within the room Diggory Venn, no longer a reddleman, but exhibiting the strangely altered hues of an ordinary Christian countenance, white shirt-front, light flowered waistcoat, blue-spotted neckerchief, and bottle-green coat.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: 1 The Inevitable Movement Onward
17  She seemed to feel, after a bare look at Diggory Venn, that the man had come on a strange errand, and that he was not so mean as she had thought him; for her close approach did not cause him to writhe uneasily, or shift his feet, or show any of those little signs which escape an ingenuous rustic at the advent of the uncommon in womankind.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
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