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Far from the Madding Crowd

Chapter XVIII · Chapter 18

Chapter 18 of Far from the Madding Crowd is here in full — 222 sentences across 45 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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SCENE ON THE VERGE OF THE HAY-MEAD Ah, Miss Everdene!” said the sergeant, touching his diminutive cap.
Little did I think it was you I was speaking to the other night.
And yet, if I had reflected, the Queen of the Corn-market (truth is truth at any hour of the day or night, and I heard you so named in Casterbridge yesterday), the Queen of the Corn-market,’ I say, could be no other woman.
I step across now to beg your forgiveness a thousand times for having been led by my feelings to express myself too strongly for a stranger.
To be sure I am no stranger to the placeI am Sergeant Troy, as I told you, and I have assisted your uncle in these fields no end of times when I was a lad.
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Far from the Madding Crowd

Chapter XVIII · Chapter 18

Chapter 18 of Far from the Madding Crowd is here in full — 222 sentences across 45 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/44 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
SCENE ON THE VERGE OF THE HAY-MEADAh, Miss Everdene!” said the sergeant, touching his diminutive cap.
Line 2
Little did I think it was you I was speaking to the other night.
Line 3
And yet, if I had reflected, theQueen of the Corn-market’ (truth is truth at any hour of the day or night, and I heard you so named in Casterbridge yesterday), theQueen of the Corn-market,’ I say, could be no other woman.
Line 4
I step across now to beg your forgiveness a thousand times for having been led by my feelings to express myself too strongly for a stranger.
Line 5
To be sure I am no stranger to the placeI am Sergeant Troy, as I told you, and I have assisted your uncle in these fields no end of times when I was a lad.

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a

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From this reading I step across now to beg your forgiveness a thousand times for having been led by my feelings to express myself too strongly for a stranger.

across

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Ah

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From this reading SCENE ON THE VERGE OF THE HAY-MEAD “Ah, Miss Everdene!” said the sergeant, touching his diminutive cap.

am

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From this reading To be sure I am no stranger to the place—I am Sergeant Troy, as I told you, and I have assisted your uncle in these fields no end of times when I was a lad.

And

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From this reading And yet, if I had reflected, the ‘Queen of the Corn-market’ (truth is truth at any hour of the day or night, and I heard you so named in Casterbridge yesterday), the ‘Queen of the Corn-market,’ I say, could be no other woman.

any

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From this reading And yet, if I had reflected, the ‘Queen of the Corn-market’ (truth is truth at any hour of the day or night, and I heard you so named in Casterbridge yesterday), the ‘Queen of the Corn-market,’ I say, could be no other woman.

as

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From this reading To be sure I am no stranger to the place—I am Sergeant Troy, as I told you, and I have assisted your uncle in these fields no end of times when I was a lad.

assisted

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From this reading To be sure I am no stranger to the place—I am Sergeant Troy, as I told you, and I have assisted your uncle in these fields no end of times when I was a lad.

at

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From this reading And yet, if I had reflected, the ‘Queen of the Corn-market’ (truth is truth at any hour of the day or night, and I heard you so named in Casterbridge yesterday), the ‘Queen of the Corn-market,’ I say, could be no other woman.

be

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From this reading And yet, if I had reflected, the ‘Queen of the Corn-market’ (truth is truth at any hour of the day or night, and I heard you so named in Casterbridge yesterday), the ‘Queen of the Corn-market,’ I say, could be no other woman.

been

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From this reading I step across now to beg your forgiveness a thousand times for having been led by my feelings to express myself too strongly for a stranger.

beg

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From this reading I step across now to beg your forgiveness a thousand times for having been led by my feelings to express myself too strongly for a stranger.

by

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From this reading I step across now to beg your forgiveness a thousand times for having been led by my feelings to express myself too strongly for a stranger.

cap

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From this reading SCENE ON THE VERGE OF THE HAY-MEAD “Ah, Miss Everdene!” said the sergeant, touching his diminutive cap.

Casterbridge

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From this reading And yet, if I had reflected, the ‘Queen of the Corn-market’ (truth is truth at any hour of the day or night, and I heard you so named in Casterbridge yesterday), the ‘Queen of the Corn-market,’ I say, could be no other woman.

Corn-market

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From this reading And yet, if I had reflected, the ‘Queen of the Corn-market’ (truth is truth at any hour of the day or night, and I heard you so named in Casterbridge yesterday), the ‘Queen of the Corn-market,’ I say, could be no other woman.

could

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From this reading And yet, if I had reflected, the ‘Queen of the Corn-market’ (truth is truth at any hour of the day or night, and I heard you so named in Casterbridge yesterday), the ‘Queen of the Corn-market,’ I say, could be no other woman.

day

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From this reading And yet, if I had reflected, the ‘Queen of the Corn-market’ (truth is truth at any hour of the day or night, and I heard you so named in Casterbridge yesterday), the ‘Queen of the Corn-market,’ I say, could be no other woman.

did

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From this reading “Little did I think it was you I was speaking to the other night.

diminutive

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From this reading SCENE ON THE VERGE OF THE HAY-MEAD “Ah, Miss Everdene!” said the sergeant, touching his diminutive cap.

end

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From this reading To be sure I am no stranger to the place—I am Sergeant Troy, as I told you, and I have assisted your uncle in these fields no end of times when I was a lad.

Everdene

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From this reading SCENE ON THE VERGE OF THE HAY-MEAD “Ah, Miss Everdene!” said the sergeant, touching his diminutive cap.

express

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From this reading I step across now to beg your forgiveness a thousand times for having been led by my feelings to express myself too strongly for a stranger.

feelings

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From this reading I step across now to beg your forgiveness a thousand times for having been led by my feelings to express myself too strongly for a stranger.

fields

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From this reading To be sure I am no stranger to the place—I am Sergeant Troy, as I told you, and I have assisted your uncle in these fields no end of times when I was a lad.

for

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From this reading I step across now to beg your forgiveness a thousand times for having been led by my feelings to express myself too strongly for a stranger.

forgiveness

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From this reading I step across now to beg your forgiveness a thousand times for having been led by my feelings to express myself too strongly for a stranger.

had

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From this reading And yet, if I had reflected, the ‘Queen of the Corn-market’ (truth is truth at any hour of the day or night, and I heard you so named in Casterbridge yesterday), the ‘Queen of the Corn-market,’ I say, could be no other woman.

have

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From this reading To be sure I am no stranger to the place—I am Sergeant Troy, as I told you, and I have assisted your uncle in these fields no end of times when I was a lad.

having

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From this reading I step across now to beg your forgiveness a thousand times for having been led by my feelings to express myself too strongly for a stranger.

HAY-MEAD

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From this reading SCENE ON THE VERGE OF THE HAY-MEAD “Ah, Miss Everdene!” said the sergeant, touching his diminutive cap.

heard

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From this reading And yet, if I had reflected, the ‘Queen of the Corn-market’ (truth is truth at any hour of the day or night, and I heard you so named in Casterbridge yesterday), the ‘Queen of the Corn-market,’ I say, could be no other woman.

his

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From this reading SCENE ON THE VERGE OF THE HAY-MEAD “Ah, Miss Everdene!” said the sergeant, touching his diminutive cap.

hour

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From this reading And yet, if I had reflected, the ‘Queen of the Corn-market’ (truth is truth at any hour of the day or night, and I heard you so named in Casterbridge yesterday), the ‘Queen of the Corn-market,’ I say, could be no other woman.

I

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From this reading “Little did I think it was you I was speaking to the other night.

if

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From this reading And yet, if I had reflected, the ‘Queen of the Corn-market’ (truth is truth at any hour of the day or night, and I heard you so named in Casterbridge yesterday), the ‘Queen of the Corn-market,’ I say, could be no other woman.

in

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From this reading And yet, if I had reflected, the ‘Queen of the Corn-market’ (truth is truth at any hour of the day or night, and I heard you so named in Casterbridge yesterday), the ‘Queen of the Corn-market,’ I say, could be no other woman.

is

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From this reading And yet, if I had reflected, the ‘Queen of the Corn-market’ (truth is truth at any hour of the day or night, and I heard you so named in Casterbridge yesterday), the ‘Queen of the Corn-market,’ I say, could be no other woman.

it

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From this reading “Little did I think it was you I was speaking to the other night.

lad

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From this reading To be sure I am no stranger to the place—I am Sergeant Troy, as I told you, and I have assisted your uncle in these fields no end of times when I was a lad.

led

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From this reading I step across now to beg your forgiveness a thousand times for having been led by my feelings to express myself too strongly for a stranger.

Little

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From this reading “Little did I think it was you I was speaking to the other night.

Miss

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From this reading SCENE ON THE VERGE OF THE HAY-MEAD “Ah, Miss Everdene!” said the sergeant, touching his diminutive cap.

my

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From this reading I step across now to beg your forgiveness a thousand times for having been led by my feelings to express myself too strongly for a stranger.

myself

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From this reading I step across now to beg your forgiveness a thousand times for having been led by my feelings to express myself too strongly for a stranger.

named

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From this reading And yet, if I had reflected, the ‘Queen of the Corn-market’ (truth is truth at any hour of the day or night, and I heard you so named in Casterbridge yesterday), the ‘Queen of the Corn-market,’ I say, could be no other woman.

night

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From this reading “Little did I think it was you I was speaking to the other night.

no

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From this reading And yet, if I had reflected, the ‘Queen of the Corn-market’ (truth is truth at any hour of the day or night, and I heard you so named in Casterbridge yesterday), the ‘Queen of the Corn-market,’ I say, could be no other woman.

now

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From this reading I step across now to beg your forgiveness a thousand times for having been led by my feelings to express myself too strongly for a stranger.

OF

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From this reading SCENE ON THE VERGE OF THE HAY-MEAD “Ah, Miss Everdene!” said the sergeant, touching his diminutive cap.

ON

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From this reading SCENE ON THE VERGE OF THE HAY-MEAD “Ah, Miss Everdene!” said the sergeant, touching his diminutive cap.

or

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From this reading And yet, if I had reflected, the ‘Queen of the Corn-market’ (truth is truth at any hour of the day or night, and I heard you so named in Casterbridge yesterday), the ‘Queen of the Corn-market,’ I say, could be no other woman.

other

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From this reading “Little did I think it was you I was speaking to the other night.

place

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From this reading To be sure I am no stranger to the place—I am Sergeant Troy, as I told you, and I have assisted your uncle in these fields no end of times when I was a lad.

Queen

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From this reading And yet, if I had reflected, the ‘Queen of the Corn-market’ (truth is truth at any hour of the day or night, and I heard you so named in Casterbridge yesterday), the ‘Queen of the Corn-market,’ I say, could be no other woman.

reflected

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From this reading And yet, if I had reflected, the ‘Queen of the Corn-market’ (truth is truth at any hour of the day or night, and I heard you so named in Casterbridge yesterday), the ‘Queen of the Corn-market,’ I say, could be no other woman.

said

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From this reading SCENE ON THE VERGE OF THE HAY-MEAD “Ah, Miss Everdene!” said the sergeant, touching his diminutive cap.

say

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From this reading And yet, if I had reflected, the ‘Queen of the Corn-market’ (truth is truth at any hour of the day or night, and I heard you so named in Casterbridge yesterday), the ‘Queen of the Corn-market,’ I say, could be no other woman.

SCENE

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From this reading SCENE ON THE VERGE OF THE HAY-MEAD “Ah, Miss Everdene!” said the sergeant, touching his diminutive cap.

sergeant

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From this reading SCENE ON THE VERGE OF THE HAY-MEAD “Ah, Miss Everdene!” said the sergeant, touching his diminutive cap.

so

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From this reading And yet, if I had reflected, the ‘Queen of the Corn-market’ (truth is truth at any hour of the day or night, and I heard you so named in Casterbridge yesterday), the ‘Queen of the Corn-market,’ I say, could be no other woman.

speaking

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From this reading “Little did I think it was you I was speaking to the other night.

step

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From this reading I step across now to beg your forgiveness a thousand times for having been led by my feelings to express myself too strongly for a stranger.

stranger

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strongly

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From this reading I step across now to beg your forgiveness a thousand times for having been led by my feelings to express myself too strongly for a stranger.

sure

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From this reading To be sure I am no stranger to the place—I am Sergeant Troy, as I told you, and I have assisted your uncle in these fields no end of times when I was a lad.

THE

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From this reading SCENE ON THE VERGE OF THE HAY-MEAD “Ah, Miss Everdene!” said the sergeant, touching his diminutive cap.

these

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From this reading To be sure I am no stranger to the place—I am Sergeant Troy, as I told you, and I have assisted your uncle in these fields no end of times when I was a lad.

think

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From this reading “Little did I think it was you I was speaking to the other night.

thousand

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From this reading I step across now to beg your forgiveness a thousand times for having been led by my feelings to express myself too strongly for a stranger.

times

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to

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From this reading “Little did I think it was you I was speaking to the other night.

told

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From this reading To be sure I am no stranger to the place—I am Sergeant Troy, as I told you, and I have assisted your uncle in these fields no end of times when I was a lad.

too

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From this reading I step across now to beg your forgiveness a thousand times for having been led by my feelings to express myself too strongly for a stranger.

touching

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From this reading SCENE ON THE VERGE OF THE HAY-MEAD “Ah, Miss Everdene!” said the sergeant, touching his diminutive cap.

Troy

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From this reading To be sure I am no stranger to the place—I am Sergeant Troy, as I told you, and I have assisted your uncle in these fields no end of times when I was a lad.

truth

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From this reading And yet, if I had reflected, the ‘Queen of the Corn-market’ (truth is truth at any hour of the day or night, and I heard you so named in Casterbridge yesterday), the ‘Queen of the Corn-market,’ I say, could be no other woman.

uncle

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From this reading To be sure I am no stranger to the place—I am Sergeant Troy, as I told you, and I have assisted your uncle in these fields no end of times when I was a lad.

VERGE

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From this reading SCENE ON THE VERGE OF THE HAY-MEAD “Ah, Miss Everdene!” said the sergeant, touching his diminutive cap.

was

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From this reading “Little did I think it was you I was speaking to the other night.

when

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From this reading To be sure I am no stranger to the place—I am Sergeant Troy, as I told you, and I have assisted your uncle in these fields no end of times when I was a lad.

woman

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From this reading And yet, if I had reflected, the ‘Queen of the Corn-market’ (truth is truth at any hour of the day or night, and I heard you so named in Casterbridge yesterday), the ‘Queen of the Corn-market,’ I say, could be no other woman.

yesterday

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From this reading And yet, if I had reflected, the ‘Queen of the Corn-market’ (truth is truth at any hour of the day or night, and I heard you so named in Casterbridge yesterday), the ‘Queen of the Corn-market,’ I say, could be no other woman.

yet

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From this reading And yet, if I had reflected, the ‘Queen of the Corn-market’ (truth is truth at any hour of the day or night, and I heard you so named in Casterbridge yesterday), the ‘Queen of the Corn-market,’ I say, could be no other woman.

you

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From this reading “Little did I think it was you I was speaking to the other night.

your

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From this reading I step across now to beg your forgiveness a thousand times for having been led by my feelings to express myself too strongly for a stranger.

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