Book Forty - Far From The Madding Crowd - Part Two

About 2/3 of the way though and I do love this book. Mr Thomas Hardy sure does know people. His characters could be people that I know. That's one of my favorite things about Jane Austen! What is there about this work of his that I didn't find in Tess of the d'Urbervilles? No idea. Perhaps I didn't give Tess enough of a chance...