'To Please his Wife'

First published in Black and White, 27 June 1891, pp. 678-82, with a small portrait of Hardy and two illustrations by W. Hennessy.

• He advanced to their elbow, genially stole a gaze at them and said, "Emily, you don't know me?"
• When on the hill behind the port, whence a view of the Channel could be obtained, she felt sure that a little speck on the horizon was the truck of the Joanna's mainmast

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