The Trumpet-Major. Томас Харди
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Thomas Hardy
The Trumpet-Major
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4057664611253
Table of Contents
I. WHAT WAS SEEN FROM THE WINDOW OVERLOOKING THE DOWN
II. SOMEBODY KNOCKS AND COMES IN
III. THE MILL BECOMES AN IMPORTANT CENTRE OF OPERATIONS
IV. WHO WERE PRESENT AT THE MILLER’S LITTLE ENTERTAINMENT
VI. OLD MR. DERRIMAN OF OXWELL HALL
VII. HOW THEY TALKED IN THE PASTURES
VIII. ANNE MAKES A CIRCUIT OF THE CAMP
IX. ANNE IS KINDLY FETCHED BY THE TRUMPET-MAJOR
X. THE MATCH-MAKING VIRTUES OF A DOUBLE GARDEN
XI. OUR PEOPLE ARE AFFECTED BY THE PRESENCE OF ROYALTY
XII. HOW EVERYBODY GREAT AND SMALL CLIMBED TO THE TOP OF THE DOWNS
XIII. THE CONVERSATION IN THE CROWD
XIV. LATER IN THE EVENING OF THE SAME DAY
XV. ‘CAPTAIN’ BOB LOVEDAY OF THE MERCHANT SERVICE
XVI. THEY MAKE READY FOR THE ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER
XVII. TWO FAINTING FITS AND A BEWILDERMENT
XVIII. THE NIGHT AFTER THE ARRIVAL
XIX. MISS JOHNSON’S BEHAVIOUR CAUSES NO LITTLE SURPRISE
XX. HOW THEY LESSENED THE EFFECT OF THE CALAMITY
XXI. ‘UPON THE HILL HE TURNED’
XXII. THE TWO HOUSEHOLDS UNITED
XXIII. MILITARY PREPARATIONS ON AN EXTENDED SCALE
XXIV. A LETTER, A VISITOR, AND A TIN BOX
XXXIII. A DISCOVERY TURNS THE SCALE
XXXIX. BOB LOVEDAY STRUTS UP AND DOWN
XLI. JOHN MARCHES INTO THE NIGHT
PREFACE
The present tale is founded more largely on testimony—oral and written—than any other in this series. The external incidents which direct its course are mostly an unexaggerated reproduction of the recollections of old persons well known to the author in childhood, but now long dead, who were eye-witnesses of those scenes. If wholly transcribed their recollections would have filled a volume thrice the length of ‘The Trumpet-Major.’
Down to the middle of this century, and later, there were not wanting, in the neighbourhood of the places more or less clearly indicated herein, casual relics of the circumstances amid which the action moves—our preparations for defence against the threatened invasion of England by Buonaparte. An outhouse door riddled with bullet-holes, which had been extemporized by a solitary man as a target for firelock practice when the landing was hourly expected, a heap of bricks and clods on a beacon-hill, which had formed the chimney and walls of the hut occupied by the beacon-keeper, worm-eaten shafts