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CHAPTER VII.

A Crisis.

The next morning the vicar rose early. The first thing he did was to write a long and careful letter to his friend in Yorkshire. Then, partaking of a little breakfast, he crossed the dale and heath in the direction of Casterbridge, bearing his letter in his pocket, that he might post it at the town office, and obviate the loss of one day in its transmission that would have resulted had he left it for the foot-post through the village.

It was a foggy morning, and the trees

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