Our heroine, Anne Garland, lives quietly in a rural community deep in the English countryside. However, the arrival of several regiments preparing for an expected invasion brings colour and chaos to the county. A graceful and charming young woman, Anne is pursued by three suitors: John Loveday, the trumpet-major in a British regiment, honest and loyal; his brother Robert, a merchant seaman and womaniser, and Festus Derriman, the cowardly son of the local squire. Set at the time of the Napoleonic wars, this is the author’s only historical novel, and unusually for Hardy’s books, some of the characters live happily ever after. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Cori Samuel.)
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Chapter 00 - Preface
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Chapter 01 - What Was Seen From the Window Overlooking the Down
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Chapter 02 - Somebody Knocks and Comes In
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Chapter 03 - The Mill Becomes an Important Centre of Operations
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Chapter 04 - Who Were Present at the Miller's Little Entertainment
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Chapter 05 - The Song and the Stranger
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Chapter 06 - Old Mr. Derriman of Oxwell Hall
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Chapter 07 - How They Talked in the Pastures
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Chapter 08 - Anne Makes a Circuit of the the Camp
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Chapter 09 - Anne is Kindly Fetched by the Trumpet-Major
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Chapter 10 - The Matchmaking Virtues of a Double Garden
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Chapter 11 - Our People Are Affected by the Presence of Royalty
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Chapter 12 - How Everybody Great and Small Climbed...
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Chapter 13 - The Conversation in the Crowd
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Chapter 14 - Later in the Eve. of the Same Day
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Chapter 15 - 'Captain' Bob Loveday of the Merchant Service
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Chapter 16 - They Make Ready for the Illustrious Stranger
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Chapter 17 - Two Fainting Fits and a Bewilderment
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Chapter 18 - The Night After the Arrival
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Chapter 19 - Miss Johnson's Behaviour Causes No Little Surprise
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Chapter 20 - How They Lessened the Effect of the Calamity
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Chapter 21 - 'Upon the Hill He Turned'
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Chapter 22 - The Two Households United
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Chapter 23 - Military Preparations on an Extended Scale
