1 "Then I'll step outside," said Venn.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion 2 "I can keep secrets," said Venn gently.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion 3 "I should like to say a word first," said Venn firmly.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 11 The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman 4 Then I saw Diggory Venn, and was glad to get him to take me home.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People 5 Indeed," said Venn earnestly, "she knows nothing whatever about it.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion 6 There was a certain obscurity in Eustacia's beauty, and Venn's eye was not trained.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion 7 "As the only lady on the heath I think you might," said Venn with subtle indirectness.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion 8 The superciliousness that lurked in her manner told Venn that thus far he had utterly failed.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion 9 Venn declined, on the plea of it being too early, and stated that his business was with Miss Vye.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion 10 Venn passed on through these towards the house of the isolated beauty who lived up among them and despised them.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion 11 But her hope was apparently centred upon him; and dismissing his regrets Venn determined to aid her to be happy in her own chosen way.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy 12 Rejected suitors take to roaming as naturally as unhived bees; and the business to which he had cynically devoted himself was in many ways congenial to Venn.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy 13 Wildeve had told her at their last meeting that Venn had been thrust forward by Mrs. Yeobright as one ready and anxious to take his place as Thomasin's betrothed.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness 14 A traveller who should walk and observe any of these visitants as Venn observed them now could feel himself to be in direct communication with regions unknown to man.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion 15 That Eustacia was somehow the cause of Wildeve's carelessness in relation to the marriage had at once been Venn's conclusion on hearing of the secret meeting between them.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy 16 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 HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion 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.
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