Jude the Obscure (1896)/Part I

by Thomas Hardy

 

 

Part I

AT MARYGREEN

 

 

"Yea, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become servants for their sakes. Many also have perished, have erred, and sinned, for women. . . . O ye men, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they do thus?"—Esdras.