1 It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song 2 If anyone says that I attempted to stop your marriage by any but honest means, that person, too, does not speak the truth.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 1 The Rencounter by the Pool 3 The marriage was scarcely in accord with the old man's wishes, for the bandmaster's pockets were as light as his occupation.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night 4 Since Thomasin's marriage Mrs. Yeobright had shown him that grim friendliness which at last arises in all such cases of undesired affinity.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day 5 Now that he had reached a cooler moment he would have preferred a less hasty marriage; but the card was laid, and he determined to abide by the game.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues 6 On the Sunday morning following the week of Thomasin's marriage a discussion on this subject was in progress at a hair-cutting before Fairway's house.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is" 7 Eustacia had got beyond the vision of some marriage of inexpressible glory; yet, though her emotions were in full vigour, she cared for no meaner union.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night 8 To pass to courtship without acquaintance, to pass to marriage without courtship, is a skipping of terms reserved for those alone who tread this royal road.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight 9 Yet Yeobright was as firm in the contrary intention as if the tendency of marriage were rather to develop the fantasies of young philanthropy than to sweep them away.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 1 The Rencounter by the Pool 10 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 11 This was not the first meeting between the relatives since Thomasin's marriage; and past blunders having been in a rough way rectified, they could always greet each other with pleasure and ease.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete 12 It meant that, though she made no conditions as to his return to the French capital, this was what she secretly longed for in the event of marriage; and it robbed him of many an otherwise pleasant hour.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness 13 Till this moment he had not met her eye since the morning of his marriage, when she had been loitering in the church, and had startled him by lifting her veil and coming forward to sign the register as witness.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression 14 The reddleman kept to himself his acquaintance with that fair personage, and also that Eustacia was there because he went to fetch her, in accordance with a promise he had given as soon as he learnt that the marriage was to take place.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart 15 The wedding subject was no further dwelt upon; and soon a faint diverging path was reached, where they parted company, Olly first begging her companion to remind Mr. Wildeve that he had not sent her sick husband the bottle of wine promised on the occasion of his marriage.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road 16 He had long since begun to sigh again for Eustacia; indeed, it may be asserted that signing the marriage register with Thomasin was the natural signal to his heart to return to its first quarters, and that the extra complication of Eustacia's marriage was the one addition required to make that return compulsory.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression 17 In the quiet days since their marriage, when Yeobright had been poring over her lips, her eyes, and the lines of her face, she had mused and mused on the subject, even while in the act of returning his gaze; and now the sight of the books, indicating a future which was antagonistic to her dream, struck her with a positively painful jar.
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