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<Text id=HarFarF>
<Author>Hardy, Thomas</Author>
<Title>Far from the Madding Crowd</Title>
<Edition>Ronald Blythe, ed. Middlesex, England: Penguin, 1978</Edition>
<Date>1874</Date>
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<div1 type=chapter id=ch01 n=i>
<head>DESCRIPTION OF FARMER OAK — AN INCIDENT</head>
<p>When Farmer Oak smiled, the
corners of his mouth spread till they were within an
unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to
chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them,
extending upon his countenance like the rays in a
rudimentary sketch of the rising sun.
<p>His Christian name was
Gabriel, and on working days he was a young man of sound
judgment, easy motions, proper dress, and general good
character. On Sundays he was a man of misty views, rather
given to postponing, and hampered by his best clothes and
umbrella: upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy
morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which
lay between the Communion peo . . .
