He is as good as anybody in this parish! He is very particular, too, about going to church-yes, he is! '' I am afeard nobody ever saw him there. I never did, certainly.'' The reason of that is, ' she said eagerly, 'that he goes in privately by the old tower door, just when the service commences, and sits at the back of the gallery. He told me so.' This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock. It was not only received with utter incredulity as regarded itself, but threw doubt on all the assurances that had preceded it. . Thomas Hardy
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