![]() But Bathsheba soon arrives and races after Gabriel, who is immediately cheered-but Bathsheba only wanted to say that she can’t bear him imagining she has many suitors when she’s independent and doesn’t want to marry anyone. Hurst, tells Gabriel that her niece has already had a host of suitors. Gabriel begins to fall in love with her, and finally musters up the courage to go to her aunt’s house and ask for her hand in marriage. She’s embarrassed and would rather have nothing to do with him, but soon after that he falls asleep in his cottage without leaving a window open to let out smoke from his fire, and Bathsheba saves him just in time. ![]() Later he sees her ride sidesaddle, not exactly ladylike, and when he finally meets the lady- Bathsheba Everdene-in person, he lets slip that he saw her. One day he catches sight of a woman in a carriage and, while she thinks she’s alone, he watches her admire herself in her mirror. ![]() Far From the Madding Crowd opens with a description of farmer Gabriel Oak, a man just out of youth who has established himself as a sheep-farmer in the past year, putting all of his savings into the livestock. ![]()
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