Elizabeth, my child, come and hearken to what we are talking about and not bide staring out o' window as if ye didn't hear.

"Elizabeth, my child, come and hearken to what we are talking about and not bide staring out o' window as if ye didn't hear.." by Robert Barnes. Plate 19, Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge, which appeared in The Graphic on 8 May 1886.

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