Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy, 1896
Penguin, 1994

Characters:

• Jude Fawley
• Mr Phillotson, schoolmaster
• Drusilla Fawley, baker aunt
• Arabella Donn
• Sue Bridehead
• Mrs Edlin, widow

Part Second: At Christminster

II.-ii., p 105

The fact of her being powerless to control him lent a pathetic force to a wish that would have been inoperative as an argument.

Part Third: At Melchester

III.-vi, p 201

Their parting was in good friendship, and yet Jude's last look into her eyes was tinged with inquiry, for he felt that he did not even now quite know her mind.