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Far from the Madding Crowd

CHAPTER XXVI
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Yes--you shall.

A gift, Miss Everdene--a gift." And before she knew what the young man was intending, a heavy gold watch was in her hand.
"It is an unusually good one for a man like me to possess," he quietly said.

"That watch has a history.

Press the spring and open the back." She did so.
"What do you see ?" "A crest and a motto." "A coronet with five points, and beneath, _Cedit amor rebus_--'Love yields to circumstance.' It's the motto of the Earls of Severn.
That watch belonged to the last lord, and was given to my mother's husband, a medical man, for his use till I came of age, when it was to be given to me.

It was all the fortune that ever I inherited.
That watch has regulated imperial interests in its time--the stately ceremonial, the courtly assignation, pompous travels, and lordly sleeps.


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