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His
reason
and
his
propensities
had
seldom
any
reciprocating
influence
,
having
separated
by
mutual
consent
long
ago
:
thence
it
sometimes
happened
that
,
while
his
intentions
were
as
honourable
as
could
be
wished
,
any
particular
deed
formed
a
dark
background
which
threw
them
into
fine
relief
.
The
sergeant
’
s
vicious
phases
being
the
offspring
of
impulse
,
and
his
virtuous
phases
of
cool
meditation
,
the
latter
had
a
modest
tendency
to
be
oftener
heard
of
than
seen
.
Troy
was
full
of
activity
,
but
his
activities
were
less
of
a
locomotive
than
a
vegetative
nature
;
and
,
never
being
based
upon
any
original
choice
of
foundation
or
direction
,
they
were
exercised
on
whatever
object
chance
might
place
in
their
way
.
Hence
,
whilst
he
sometimes
reached
the
brilliant
in
speech
because
that
was
spontaneous
,
he
fell
below
the
commonplace
in
action
,
from
inability
to
guide
incipient
effort
.
He
had
a
quick
comprehension
and
considerable
force
of
character
;
but
,
being
without
the
power
to
combine
them
,
the
comprehension
became
engaged
with
trivialities
whilst
waiting
for
the
will
to
direct
it
,
and
the
force
wasted
itself
in
useless
grooves
through
unheeding
the
comprehension
.
He
was
a
fairly
well
-
educated
man
for
one
of
middle
class
—
exceptionally
well
educated
for
a
common
soldier
.
He
spoke
fluently
and
unceasingly
.
He
could
in
this
way
be
one
thing
and
seem
another
:
for
instance
,
he
could
speak
of
love
and
think
of
dinner
;
call
on
the
husband
to
look
at
the
wife
;
be
eager
to
pay
and
intend
to
owe
.
The
wondrous
power
of
flattery
in
passados
at
woman
is
a
perception
so
universal
as
to
be
remarked
upon
by
many
people
almost
as
automatically
as
they
repeat
a
proverb
,
or
say
that
they
are
Christians
and
the
like
,
without
thinking
much
of
the
enormous
corollaries
which
spring
from
the
proposition
.
Still
less
is
it
acted
upon
for
the
good
of
the
complemental
being
alluded
to
.
With
the
majority
such
an
opinion
is
shelved
with
all
those
trite
aphorisms
which
require
some
catastrophe
to
bring
their
tremendous
meanings
thoroughly
home
.
When
expressed
with
some
amount
of
reflectiveness
it
seems
co
-
ordinate
with
a
belief
that
this
flattery
must
be
reasonable
to
be
effective
.
It
is
to
the
credit
of
men
that
few
attempt
to
settle
the
question
by
experiment
,
and
it
is
for
their
happiness
,
perhaps
,
that
accident
has
never
settled
it
for
them
.
Nevertheless
,
that
a
male
dissembler
who
by
deluging
her
with
untenable
fictions
charms
the
female
wisely
,
may
acquire
powers
reaching
to
the
extremity
of
perdition
,
is
a
truth
taught
to
many
by
unsought
and
wringing
occurrences
.
And
some
profess
to
have
attained
to
the
same
knowledge
by
experiment
as
aforesaid
,
and
jauntily
continue
their
indulgence
in
such
experiments
with
terrible
effect
.
Sergeant
Troy
was
one
.
He
had
been
known
to
observe
casually
that
in
dealing
with
womankind
the
only
alternative
to
flattery
was
cursing
and
swearing
.
There
was
no
third
method
.
"
Treat
them
fairly
,
and
you
are
a
lost
man
.
"
he
would
say
.
This
person
’
s
public
appearance
in
Weatherbury
promptly
followed
his
arrival
there
.
A
week
or
two
after
the
shearing
,
Bathsheba
,
feeling
a
nameless
relief
of
spirits
on
account
of
Boldwood
’
s
absence
,
approached
her
hayfields
and
looked
over
the
hedge
towards
the
haymakers
.
They
consisted
in
about
equal
proportions
of
gnarled
and
flexuous
forms
,
the
former
being
the
men
,
the
latter
the
women
,
who
wore
tilt
bonnets
covered
with
nankeen
,
which
hung
in
a
curtain
upon
their
shoulders
.
Coggan
and
Mark
Clark
were
mowing
in
a
less
forward
meadow
,
Clark
humming
a
tune
to
the
strokes
of
his
scythe
,
to
which
Jan
made
no
attempt
to
keep
time
with
his
.
In
the
first
mead
they
were
already
loading
hay
,
the
women
raking
it
into
cocks
and
windrows
,
and
the
men
tossing
it
upon
the
waggon
.
From
behind
the
waggon
a
bright
scarlet
spot
emerged
,
and
went
on
loading
unconcernedly
with
the
rest
It
was
the
gallant
sergeant
,
who
had
come
haymaking
for
pleasure
;
and
nobody
could
deny
that
he
was
doing
the
mistress
of
the
farm
real
knight
-
service
by
this
voluntary
contribution
of
his
labour
at
a
busy
time
.
