Chapter 25 Chapter 5 Bitter words lead to crisis

When he was not with Eustacia, Yeobright sat hard at his book, thinking of nothing; when he was not reading, he went to see her.These meetings were conducted in absolute secrecy. His mother came home one afternoon, after visiting Thomasy in the morning.He saw from the look of uneasiness on her face that something must have happened. I heard something incomprehensible, she said sadly, that the old captain sent word in the lady's shop about you and Eustacia.Vey is getting married. Yes, said Yeobright, but that may be some time off. I just can't imagine it's going to be a long time longer!I think you will take her to Paris?she asked hopelessly, looking very depressed.

I'm not going back to Paris. In that case, what are you going to do when you marry a wife? I have already told you to set up a school in Beleikou. That is impossible!There are already too many teachers in that place.You have no special academic qualifications.What chance does a man like you have there? There is no chance of getting rich.But my method of education is absolutely new, and I can use this method to bring endless benefits to the folks. Daydream, daydream!If there is any method of education to be invented, people in universities have already invented it. Not at all, Mom.They couldn't have invented it, because the teachers there hadn't been exposed to a class that needed that kind of education, that is, students who hadn't had a primary education.My plan is to fill those blank minds with higher knowledge, not to cram them with knowledge that doesn't have to be taught before the real learning begins.

If you don't let yourself be entangled with things, I can take your word for it; but this woman is bad enough if she's a good girl, but she is She is a good girl. This is your opinion.Daughter of a Corfu musician!What kind of life has she been living?Not even her last name is her real name. She was Captain Veil's granddaughter, and her father had only taken her mother's last name.She was a born lady. It's just that people call him the captain, and anyone can be a captain. He served in the Royal Navy! Needless to say, he did go out to sea in some kind of old ship.But why doesn't he care about his granddaughter at all?No lady of class would roam the moor at will, day or night, as she did.It's not just that.For a while there was an ambiguous relationship between her and Thomasy's husband which I knew as well as I stood here.

Eustacia has told me this.He did pay her a little attention a year ago; but it was no great thing.I like her even more. Clem, said his mother firmly, unfortunately I have no evidence against her.But if she can really be a good wife for you, it can be said that there have never been such bad wives in the world. Believe me, you're almost making a quarrel, said Yeobright sharply.I was ready to arrange for you two to meet today.But you do not give me peace; you try to make my wishes come true in every way. I get annoyed at the thought of my son not being married!I hope I don't live to see it happen; it's too much for me, I never dreamed of it!She turned around and stood in front of the window.Her breathing was rapid, her lips were pale, slightly parted, and trembling.

Mom, said Clem, no matter what you do, you will always be dear to me, and you know that.But one thing I have a right to say is that I am old enough to know what is best for me at my age. For a long while Mrs Yeobright remained silent and trembling, as if she could say nothing more.She later replied, best?You put your own future on the line for such a luxurious and lazy woman, isn't that considered the best?Don't you see that the very fact that you chose her proves that you have no idea what's best for you?You put all your heart and soul into pleasing a woman. Not bad at all.And that woman is you.

How can you treat me so contemptuously!said his mother, casting another tearful glance at him.You're so weird, Clem, I didn't expect you to be like this. Chances are, he said gloomily, that you don't know what criterion you're going to measure me against, and therefore you don't know that it will apply to you in turn. You answered me, you only have her in your heart.You can't do anything without her. That just proves how precious she is.I've never endorsed bad stuff yet.I don't care about her alone.I care about you, I care about myself, I care about anything good.Once a woman doesn't like another person, she has no mercy!

Oh, Clem!Please don't attribute your own stubborn wrong thinking to my fault.If you wanted to marry yourself to a worthless woman, why did you come home and do it?Why don't you just do it in Paris?That kind of thing was all the rage there.You came back just to make a lonely woman like me feel bad, to break my life!I only hope that wherever you put your love, you live there! Clem replied hoarsely, You are my mother.I will say no more, but I beg your pardon, for I have always called this home my home.I won't drag you down any more; I'm going.He walked out with tears in his eyes.

It was early summer, and it was a sunny afternoon, and the wet depressions on the moor had changed from brown to green.Yeobright walked to the edge of the valley basin that ran down from Misty Hill and Rainmound.At this moment, he was very calm, and he looked at the scene in front of him.In this valley there are many small hills, which make the valley look uneven, and form many smaller valleys, in which the young heather is alive, and it can grow to a height of five or six feet.He went a little way down the slope and lay down on the ground, where a path led out of a small valley where he lay, and there he waited.He had promised Eustacia that he would bring his mother here this afternoon, so that they might meet and become friends.Now, this effort of his has completely failed.

He was in the midst of living greenery, surrounded by heather, which, though so luxuriant, was the same color.I saw a dense, uniform green leaf, a world of green triangles with jagged edges, and not a single flower.The air is dense with hot air, very warm, and there is a bit of undisturbed silence.The only living things that could be seen were lizards, grasshoppers and ants.The landscape seemed to belong to that old world of the Carboniferous period, when there was little vegetation but heather; there were neither buds nor blooms, and no birds but a drab clump of green leaves. Sing in it. Yeobright lay like this for a long time, brooding constantly, when he saw a white silk hat slanted on the heath on the left, coming towards him, and he knew immediately that it was his hat. Sweetheart.His heart immediately woke up from the indifference, and a surge of enthusiasm surged up. He jumped up and said loudly, I knew she would definitely come.

Her figure disappeared for a moment in a hollow, and then her entire figure appeared behind the bushes at a glance. only you?she asked scoldingly, showing disappointment, but the immediate blush on her face and a slightly guilty chuckle proved that this expression was fake.Where is Mrs Yeobright? She didn't come.He replied in a depressed voice. I wish I had known you had come alone, had known that we would have had an unrestrained merry time, she said solemnly, and it is half the charm of merriment not to be known of its coming; and To know all this in advance is to double the joy.It never occurred to me today that I could have you all to myself this afternoon, and that the matter itself would pass so quickly.

That's exactly what happened. Poor Clem!She went on, looking tenderly into his face.you are sad.Something must have happened in your family.Whatever that is, let's see what to do about it. Oh dear, what shall we do?He said. Go on dating like we are now, go on going day by day, never thinking about what the next day will be like.I know, you always think about that and I can see you do.But don't you have to do that at all, dear Clem? You are like all women.They are forever content to build their lives on whatever subordination is offered to them; men are preoccupied with making a planet fit for them.Listen, Eustacia.There is one thing I am determined not to procrastinate any longer.Your feeling of being drunk today is not going to work for me today.Our present way of life must end as soon as possible. It must be because of your mother! Yes.I'm going to tell you anyway, I love you; that's all you should know. I've always been terrified of my ecstasy, she said, moving her lips.This kind of joy is too strong and too immersive. There is still hope.I still have forty years of work to do, why are you so desperate?I'm just at an awkward turning point.I'd like people to stop thinking that everything has to go well for development to happen. Oh, your mind is thinking about philosophy.Well, in a way, these sad and hopeless obstacles are a good thing, for they make us indifferent to these cruel taunts that fate loves to throw at us.I have heard of men who, when happiness came upon them suddenly, died of melancholy lest they should not live to enjoy it.I've been feeling myself in this strange state of anxiety lately; but I don't have to worry about it now.let's go. Clem took the hand that had taken off the glove and waited for him to take it. It was a blissful thing for them to walk together hand in hand, and he led her across the heather.It was late in the evening, when they were walking along the valley together, the setting sun slanted on them from the right. Their slender and erratic figures, like tall poplar trees, cast far into this piece of heather and fern grass. In the sunshine, they formed a pleasing picture of love.Eustacia walked with her head thrown back, so dreamy, and with a look in her eyes that she was sure of winning, happy and satisfied that she had won this man alone, without help from anyone, and he was so beautiful in wit and appearance. , and her age is the perfect complement to her.And on the young man's part, even as he walked back in this way, the pale face which long life in Paris had brought upon him, and the imprints of age and thought which were beginning to show on it, had faded away. It was not so obvious as it had been when he first returned, for the vigor and strength which nature had given him had regained their true colors.They wandered on until they came down to the edge of the moor, where it became soggy and merged with the moor. Clem, I must part with you here, said Eustacia. They stood silently, ready to say goodbye to each other.Everything in front of me is so beautiful.The sun was high in the sky, its rays pouring down through layers of bronze and lavender clouds beneath a pale green sky.All the dark things on the earth that were illuminated by the setting sun were covered with a layer of purple-brown light, which made the swarms of buzzing midges gleaming, and these midges kept flying up and down like Sparks from a pile of fire. oh!It's too much to leave you!Eustacia murmured suddenly and painfully, Your mother will have a great influence on you; Legend, will make my image worse! impossible.No one dared to say anything rude to you or to me. Oh, how I wish I could believe that I would never lose you You can never leave me no matter what! Climb stood silently for a moment.He's emotional, the moments are most tender, and then he's out of it. You have to trust me, darling, he said, taking her in his arms.We'll get married right away. Oh, Clem! Do you agree? If only we could do it. Of course we can, we're both adults.I've amassed a fortune over the years; and if you promise to find a cottage somewhere in the moors before I find a house at Bule's Mouth and start a school, we'll spend a little A sum of money can do the marriage. How long are we going to live in this cottage, Clem? About six months or so.By the end of that period, I'll be able to finish my book. Yes, we'll do that, and this heart-wrenching day will be over.Of course, our life will be completely secluded, and our married life will only be seen by the public when we have a house in Budmouth.Would your grandfather let you do this? I think he will, as long as he understands that it won't last more than six months. As long as nothing unfortunate happens, I can guarantee it. As long as nothing unfortunate happens, she repeated slowly. That is impossible.Dearest, fix a definite date. So they discussed the matter, and finally settled on this day, which was two weeks later. Their conversation ended, and Eustacia left him.Clem watched her walk toward the sunset.Her gradually receding figure was completely enveloped in that brilliant brilliance, and the rustling sound of her skirt brushing against the newly sprouted moss and grass gradually faded away until it disappeared.As he watched, the dead flat landscape completely overwhelmed him, and he fully felt the unspoiled green beauty of early summer brought by the leaves that now looked so pitiful.However, there was something in this threatening stretch that made him think of the great stage of life, and made him feel that under the sun, all creatures are completely equal, and no one is worse than the other. Eustacia was now to him a woman and not a goddess, but a woman to be defended and helped, a woman to be fought over and vilified for her.Now that he was in a calmer moment, he would have preferred not to have married so hastily; but the cards were drawn, and he resolved to play them.Whether Eustacia was to be counted among those women who loved too strongly to be long and unfaithful, events to come would certainly amply demonstrate.