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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: chainey plates than thatch."
They sat resting, and the shepherd came in. "Don't 'ee mind I,"
he said with a deprecating wave of the hand "bide here as long as ye will.
But mid you be thinking o' getting back to Melchester to-night by train?
Because you'll never do it in this world, since you don't know the lie
of the country. I don't mind going with ye some o' the ways, but even then
the train mid be gone."
They started up.
"You can bide here, you know, over the night--can't 'em, Mother?
The place is welcome to ye. 'Tis hard lying, rather, but volk
may do worse." He turned to Jude and asked privately: "Be you a
Jude the Obscure |
