|
The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy: Yes: we will stay, and watch the approach of day.'
So they again sought out the sheltered nook, and sitting down
wrapped themselves in the rug as before.
'What were you going to ask me?' he inquired, as they undulated up
and down.
'Oh, it was not much--perhaps a thing I ought not to ask,' she
said hesitatingly. Her sudden wish had really been to discover at
once whether he had ever before been engaged to be married. If he
had, she would make that a ground for telling him a little of her
conduct with Stephen. Mrs. Jethway's seeming words had so
depressed the girl that she herself now painted her flight in the
A Pair of Blue Eyes | 
