5/22/2023 0 Comments Far from the madding crowd bookCoggan, for she was "dusting bottles sir, and is quite a object." Boldwood explained that he was merely inquiring as to whether Fanny had been found. Coggan, flour-covered, opened it and announced Mr. He knocked, and the responsibility for answering the door was delegated from one to another. A horse tramped up the footpath, and the women were thrown into confusion when they saw that the rider was a gentleman. Liddy was the old maltster's great-granddaughter, and "her face was a prominent advertisement of the light-hearted English country girl." Maryann Money could be heard scrubbing, and Mrs. Bathsheba and her maid-companion, Liddy, were in one of the upper rooms, sorting the belongings of the former owner. Within, the floors, at present uncarpeted, creaked and sagged. The entire complex of buildings was mellowed, and its new function, as a farmhouse, seemed to have turned it front to rear, reversing its focus. All the outlines were softened by a mossy growth. Ornate stone pilasters, finials, and other Gothic features adorned it. Bathsheba's home, which "presented itself as a hoary building, of the early stage of Classic Renaissance," was once the manorial hall of a small estate.
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