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WHEN Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, exten- ding upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun. His Christian name was Gabriel, and on working days he was a young man of sound judgment, easy motions, proper dress, and general good character. On Sundays he was a man of misty views, rather given to post- poning, and hampered by his best clothes and umbrella: upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section, - that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listening to the sermon. Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: Far from the Madding Crowd
• Author: Hardy, Thomas, Defendant
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 508
• EAN: 9781421808703
• ISBN: 9781421808703
• ID: 08411347
• Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Weight: 820 g
• Dimensions: 224 × 149 × 37 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. February 2006

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