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I thought it best to go back. As I drew nearer to them, trying to propitiate the tinker by my looks, I observed that the woman had a black eye. ¡¡¡¡'Where are you going?' said the tinker, gripping the bosom of my shirt with his blackened hand. ¡¡¡¡'I am going to Dover,' I said. ¡¡¡¡'Where do you come from?' asked the tinker, giving his hand another turn in my shirt, to hold me more securely. ¡¡¡¡'I come from London,' I said. ¡¡¡¡'What lay are you upon?' asked the tinker. 'Are you a prig?' ¡¡¡¡'N-no,' I said. ¡¡¡¡'Ain't you, by G--? If you make a brag of your
honesty to me,' said the tinker, 'I'll knock your brains out.' ¡¡¡¡With his disengaged hand he made a menace of striking me, and then looked at me from head to foot. ¡¡¡¡'Have you got the price of a pint of beer about you?' said the tinker. 'If you have, out with it, afore I take it away!' ¡¡¡¡I should certainly have produced it, but that I met the woman's look, and saw her very slightly shake her head, and form 'No!' with her lips.

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Ah - your husband - your husband! How strange it seems! I remember you hinted something of the sort the other day. What do you really believe in these matters, Tess?' he asked. `You seem to have no religion - perhaps owing to me.' ¡¡¡¡`But I have. Though I don't believe in anything supernatural.' D'Urberville looked at her with misgiving. ¡¡¡¡`Then do you think that the line I take is all wrong?' ¡¡¡¡`A good deal of it.' ¡¡¡¡`H'm - and yet I've felt so sure about it,' he said uneasily. ¡¡¡¡`I believe in the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount, and so did my dear husband... . But I don't believe------' ¡¡¡¡Here she gave her negations. ¡¡¡¡`The fact is,' said d'Urberville drily, `whatever your dear husband believed you accept, and whatever he rejected you reject, without the least inquiry or reasoning on your own part. That's just like you women. Your mind is enslaved to his.'

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¡¡¡¡`There - you've owned it!' ¡¡¡¡`So have you - so have we all,' said Marian, with the dry frankness of complete indifference to opinion. `It is silly to pretend otherwise amongst ourselves, though we need not own it to other folks. I would just marry 'n to-morrow!' ¡¡¡¡`So would I - and more,' murmured Izz Huett. ¡¡¡¡`And I too,' whispered the more timid Retty. ¡¡¡¡The listener grew warm. ¡¡¡¡`We can't all marry him,' said Izz. ¡¡¡¡`We shan't, either of us; which is worse still,' said the eldest. `There he is again!' ¡¡¡¡They all three blew him a silent kiss. ¡¡¡¡`Why?' asked Retty quickly. ¡¡¡¡`Because he likes Tess Durbeyfield best,' said Marian, lowering her voice. `I have watched him every day, and have found it out.' ¡¡¡¡There was a reflective silence. ¡¡¡¡`But she don't care anything for 'n?' at length breathed Retty. ¡¡¡¡`Well - I sometimes think that too.'

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"Ah," said CanonPennyfather, faintly, somewhat overcome by all these revelations. "A good Samaritan."
　　"And he saw you were a clergyman so my husbandsaid, 'it's all quite respectable.'Then he said he'd better not call thepolice because being a clergyman and all that you mightn'tlike it. that's if you was drunk, in spite of there being nosmell of drink. So then we hit upon getting Dr. Stokes to come and have a look at you. Westill call him Dr. stokes although he's been struck off. Avery nice man he is, embittered a bit, of course, by being struck off. It was only hiskind heart really, helping a lot of girls who were no better than they should be. Anyway,he's a good enough doctor and we got him to come and take alook at you. He says you've come to no real harm, says it's mild concussion. All we'd got to do was to keepyou lying flat and quiet in a dark

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"Well, yes…. Yes Idid. I ran across her by chance. We were staying in the same hotel, as a matter of fact. Iurged Bess to make some arrangements to see the girl."
　　"What did she say?" askedEgerton curiously.
　　"Refused point blank. She more or less said thatshe wasn't a safe person for the girl to know."
　　"Looked at from one point of view I don't suppose she is," said Egerton. "She's mixed up with that racing fellow, isn't she?"
　　"I've heard rumours."
　　"Yes, I've heard themtoo. I don't know if there's muchin it really. There might be, I suppose. That could be why she feels as she does. Bess's friends are strong meat from time to time! But what a woman she is, ehDerek? What a woman."

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master as he turned to an image in the center of the twenty holograms which wascontinually interrupted by static and faded in and out as Captain Needa of the StarDestroyer Avenger made his report. His first words had already been drowned bystatic. "…which was the last time they appeared in any of our scopes," Captain Needacontinued, "Considering the amount of damage we've sustained, they also must havebeen destroyed." Vader disagreed. He knew of the Millennium Falcon's power and was quitefamiliar with the skills of her cocky pilot. "No, Captain," he snarled angrily,"they're alive. I want every ship available to sweep the asteroid field until they'refound." As soon as Vader had given his command, Captain Needa's image and those ofthe other nineteen captains faded completely. When the last hologram vanished,

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The princess nodded. She was surprised to see him there where the danger wasseverest. "Come on," he urged before she could reply. "You've got to get to your ship." Leia looked exhausted. She had been standing at the console viewscreens forhours and had participated in dispatching Rebel personnel to their posts. Taking herhand, Han led her from the chamber, with the protocol droid clacking after them. As they left, Leia gave one final order to the controller. "Give the evacuationcode signal…and get to the transport." Then, as Leia, Han, and Threepio made their hasty exit from the command center,a voice blared from the public address speakers, echoing in the nearby deserted icecorridors. "Disengage, disengage! Begin retreat action!" "Come, on," Han urged, grimacing. "If you don't get there fast, your shipwon't be able to take off." The walls quaked even more violently than before. Ice chunks continued to fallthroughout the underground base as the three hurried toward the transport ships.They had nearly reached the hangar where Leia's transport ship was waiting, ready for