THE ARRANGEMENT for getting back again to Weatherbury had been that Oak should take the place of Poorgrass in Bathsheba’s conveyance and drive her home, it being discovered late in the afternoon that Joseph was suffering from his old complaint, a multiplying eye, and was, therefore, hardly trustworthy as coachman and protector to a woman. But Oak had found himself so occupied, and was full of so many cares relative to those portions of Boldwood’s flocks that were not disposed of, that Bathsheba, without telling Oak or anybody, resolved to drive home herself, as she had many times done from
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This book has been dragging, and I have tried to put my finger on why. This passage is really over written as though Hardy needs to hit a certain word count. Some of it isn't necessary to move the plot forward. It is so overwritten that it bores me.
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