A Changed Man and Other Tales
READING AGE 16+
(1913)
Prefatory Note:
I reprint in this volume, for what they may be worth, a dozen minor novels that have been published in the periodical press at various dates in the past, in order to render them accessible to readers who desire to have them in the complete series issued by my publishers. For aid in reclaiming some of the narratives I express my thanks to the proprietors and editors of the newspapers and magazines in whose pages they first appeared.--Thomas Hardy. August 1913.
Unfold
CHAPTER I
The traveller in school-books, who vouched in dryest tones for the
fidelity to fact of the following narrative, used to add a ring of truth
to it by opening with a nicety of criticism on the heroine's personality.
People were wrong, he declared, when they surmised that Baptista Trewthen
was a young woman w……
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