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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: "I know you'll be angry if I tell you everything, and that's why
I don't want to!"
"Very well, then, dear," he said soothingly. "I have no real
right to ask you, and I don't wish to know."
"I shall tell you!" said she, with the perverseness that was part of her.
"This is what I have done: I have promised--I have promised--that I
will marry him when I come out of the training-school two years hence,
and have got my certificate; his plan being that we shall then take
a large double school in a great town--he the boys' and I the girls'--
as married school-teachers often do, and make a good income between us."
"Oh, Sue! ... But of course it is right--you couldn't have done better!"
Jude the Obscure |
