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A woman in this book is reminded of a Confirmation ceremony when a blind woman recognizes her chickens by touch. While delivering beehives, a man in this novel says that humans live "on a blighted star" (20[5]0[1])after (20[1])a (20[1])mail-cart (20[2])gores the horse Prince. (20[2])The narrator concludes "It was to be" after asking whether God (20[1])was distracted or asleep at the end of this novel's first part. A vicar in this novel relents to allow the baby (*) Sorrow to be buried (10[3])in a (10[1])churchyard (10[2]0[1])even (10[1])though he (10[1])wasn’t (0[1])formally baptized. (10[2])This novel's protagonist marries the preacher's son Angel Clare, (10[3])and is arrested at Stonehenge for stabbing her rapist Alec. (10[2]0[1])For (10[1])10 points, name this Thomas Hardy (10[1]0[1])novel named for a milkmaid from an ancient family. ■END■ (10[5]0[1])

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