Jude the Obscure (1896)/Part VI

by Thomas Hardy

 

 

Part VI

AT CHRISTMINSTER AGAIN

 

 

". . . And she humbled her body greatly, and all the places of her joy she filled with her torn hair."—Esther (Apoc.).

"There are two who decline, a woman and I,
And enjoy our death in the darkness here."
—R. Browning.