Book First: The Three Women 1
Ⅰ A Face on Which Time Makes But Little Impression 3
Ⅱ Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 9
Ⅲ The Custom of the Country 17
Ⅳ The Halt on the Turnpike Road 43
Ⅴ Perplexity among Honest People 50
Ⅵ The Figure against the Sky 66
Ⅶ Queen of Night 83
Ⅷ Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody 92
Ⅸ Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy 99
Ⅹ A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion 111
Ⅺ The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman 122
Book Second: The Arrival 133
Ⅰ Tidings of the Comer 135
Ⅱ The People at Blooms-End Make Ready 141
Ⅲ How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream 147
Ⅳ Eustacia Is Led On to an Adventure 153
Ⅴ Through the Moonlight 166
Ⅵ The Two Stand Face to Face 175
Ⅶ A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness 189
Ⅷ Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart 200
Book Third: The Fascination 213
Ⅰ ‘My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is’ 215
Ⅱ The New Course Causes Disappointment 221
Ⅲ The First Act in a Timeworn Drama 232
Ⅳ An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness 250
Ⅴ Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues 260
Ⅵ Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete 269
Ⅶ The Morning and the Evening of a Day 278
Ⅷ A New Force Disturbs the Current 295
Book Fourth: The Closed Door 305
Ⅰ The Rencounter by the Pool 307
Ⅱ He Is Set Upon by Adversities; but He Sings a Song 316
Ⅲ She Goes Out to Battle against Depression 329
Ⅳ Rough Coercion Is Employed 344
Ⅴ The Journey across the Heath 353
Ⅵ A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian 359
Ⅶ The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends 372
Ⅷ Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil 382
Book Fifth: The Discovery 393
Ⅰ ‘Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery’ 395
Ⅱ A Lurid Light Breaks In upon a Darkened Understanding 405
Ⅲ Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning 417
Ⅳ The Ministrations of a Half-Forgotten One 427
Ⅴ An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated 434
Ⅵ Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter 442
Ⅶ The Night of the Sixth of November 450
Ⅷ Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers 460
Ⅸ Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together 473
Book Sixth: Aftercourses 487
Ⅰ The Inevitable Movement Onward 489
Ⅱ Thomasin Walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road 500
Ⅲ The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin 504
Ⅳ Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His Vocation 510