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Bathsheba
indignantly
left
the
barn
,
followed
by
all
the
women
and
children
.
The
musicians
,
not
looking
upon
themselves
as
"
company
,
"
slipped
quietly
away
to
their
spring
waggon
and
put
in
the
horse
.
Thus
Troy
and
the
men
on
the
farm
were
left
sole
occupants
of
the
place
.
Oak
,
not
to
appear
unnecessarily
disagreeable
,
stayed
a
little
while
;
then
he
,
too
,
arose
and
quietly
took
his
departure
,
followed
by
a
friendly
oath
from
the
sergeant
for
not
staying
to
a
second
round
of
grog
.
Gabriel
proceeded
towards
his
home
.
In
approaching
the
door
,
his
toe
kicked
something
which
felt
and
sounded
soft
,
leathery
,
and
distended
,
like
a
boxing
-
glove
.
It
was
a
large
toad
humbly
travelling
across
the
path
.
Oak
took
it
up
,
thinking
it
might
be
better
to
kill
the
creature
to
save
it
from
pain
;
but
finding
it
uninjured
,
he
placed
it
again
among
the
grass
.
He
knew
what
this
direct
message
from
the
Great
Mother
meant
.
And
soon
came
another
.
When
he
struck
a
light
indoors
there
appeared
upon
the
table
a
thin
glistening
streak
,
as
if
a
brush
of
varnish
had
been
lightly
dragged
across
it
.
Oak
’
s
eyes
followed
the
serpentine
sheen
to
the
other
side
,
where
it
led
up
to
a
huge
brown
garden
-
slug
,
which
had
come
indoors
to
-
night
for
reasons
of
its
own
.
It
was
Nature
’
s
second
way
of
hinting
to
him
that
he
was
to
prepare
for
foul
weather
.
Oak
sat
down
meditating
for
nearly
an
hour
.
During
this
time
two
black
spiders
,
of
the
kind
common
in
thatched
houses
,
promenaded
the
ceiling
,
ultimately
dropping
to
the
floor
.
This
reminded
him
that
if
there
was
one
class
of
manifestation
on
this
matter
that
he
thoroughly
understood
,
it
was
the
instincts
of
sheep
.
He
left
the
room
,
ran
across
two
or
three
fields
towards
the
flock
,
got
upon
a
hedge
,
and
looked
over
among
them
.
They
were
crowded
close
together
on
the
other
side
around
some
furze
bushes
,
and
the
first
peculiarity
observable
was
that
,
on
the
sudden
appearance
of
Oak
’
s
head
over
the
fence
,
they
did
not
stir
or
run
away
.
They
had
now
a
terror
of
something
greater
than
their
terror
of
man
.
But
this
was
not
the
most
noteworthy
feature
:
they
were
all
grouped
in
such
a
way
that
their
tails
,
without
a
single
exception
,
were
towards
that
half
of
the
horizon
from
which
the
storm
threatened
.
There
was
an
inner
circle
closely
huddled
,
and
outside
these
they
radiated
wider
apart
,
the
pattern
formed
by
the
flock
as
a
whole
not
being
unlike
a
vandyked
lace
collar
,
to
which
the
clump
of
furze
-
bushes
stood
in
the
position
of
a
wearer
’
s
neck
.
This
was
enough
to
re
-
establish
him
in
his
original
opinion
.
He
knew
now
that
he
was
right
,
and
that
Troy
was
wrong
.
Every
voice
in
nature
was
unanimous
in
bespeaking
change
.
But
two
distinct
translations
attached
to
these
dumb
expressions
.
Apparently
there
was
to
be
a
thunder
-
storm
,
and
afterwards
a
cold
continuous
rain
.
The
creeping
things
seemed
to
know
all
about
the
later
rain
,
but
little
of
the
interpolated
thunder
-
storm
;
whilst
the
sheep
knew
all
about
the
thunder
-
storm
and
nothing
of
the
later
rain
.
This
complication
of
weathers
being
uncommon
,
was
all
the
more
to
be
feared
.
Oak
returned
to
the
stack
-
yard
.
All
was
silent
here
,
and
the
conical
tips
of
the
ricks
jutted
darkly
into
the
sky
.
There
were
five
wheat
-
ricks
in
this
yard
,
and
three
stacks
of
barley
.
The
wheat
when
threshed
would
average
about
thirty
quarters
to
each
stack
;
the
barley
,
at
least
forty
.
Their
value
to
Bathsheba
,
and
indeed
to
anybody
,
Oak
mentally
estimated
by
the
following
simple
calculation
:
—
