This character adds the line “Do not desert me!” to a note for a shepherd whom she earlier saved from asphyxiating in his hut. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this character who marries a different suitor who is shot by Boldwood and buried with Fanny Robin. That suitor impresses this character by splitting a caterpillar on her bosom as part of a swordplay demonstration.
ANSWER: Bathsheba Everdene [or Bathsheba Everdene]
[10m] Bathsheba Everdene initially marries Frank Troy, a man of this occupation. The Sign of the Four begins with Mary Morstan, the daughter of a murdered man in this occupation, receiving pearls from a treasure from Agra Fort.
ANSWER: soldier [or military; accept sergeant; accept captain]
[10e] Far from the Madding Crowd takes its title from a line in this Thomas Gray poem, which says of its title location that “Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest” and begins, “The curfew tolls the knell of parting day.”
ANSWER: “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
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