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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: as being that of his exemplar when he first began to teach in Galilee.
This would allow him plenty of time for deliberate study, and for acquiring
capital by his trade to help his aftercourse of keeping the necessary terms
at a theological college.
Christmas had come and passed, and Sue had gone to the Melchester
Normal School. The time was just the worst in the year for Jude to get
into new employment, and he had written suggesting to her that he should
postpone his arrival for a month or so, till the days had lengthened.
She had acquiesced so readily that he wished he had not proposed it--
she evidently did not much care about him, though she had never once
reproached him for his strange conduct in coming to her that night,
Jude the Obscure |
