También utilizamos estas cookies para entender cómo utilizan los clientes nuestros servicios (por ejemplo, mediante la medición de las visitas al sitio web) con el fin de poder realizar mejoras. To do this, however, he is forced to break off an engagement with a woman named Lucetta Templeman, who had nursed him when he was ill.Utilizamos cookies y herramientas similares que son necesarias para permitirte comprar, mejorar tus experiencias de compra y proporcionar nuestros servicios, según se detalla en nuestro Aviso de cookies. When the couple are reunited, Henchard proposes remarrying Susan after a sham courtship, this in his view being the simplest and most discreet way to remedy matters and to prevent Elizabeth-Jane learning of their disgrace. He has avoided explaining how he lost his wife, allowing people to assume he is a widower. Susan discovers that Henchard has become a very successful hay and grain merchant and Mayor of Casterbridge, known for his staunch sobriety. Susan has told Elizabeth-Jane little about Henchard, and the young woman knows only that he is a relation by marriage. After Newson is lost at sea Susan, lacking any means of support, decides to seek out Henchard again, taking her daughter with her. He vows not to touch liquor again for 21 years.īelieving the auction to be legally binding, Susan lives as Newson's wife for 18 years. Sober and remorseful the next day, he is too late to locate his family. Drunk on rum-laced furmity he auctions her off, along with their baby daughter Elizabeth-Jane, to Richard Newson, a passing sailor, for five guineas.
At a country fair near Casterbridge in Wessex Michael Henchard, a 21-year-old hay-trusser, argues with his wife Susan.
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