远离尘嚣Gabriel Oak falls in love 歌词

歌曲	远离尘嚣Gabriel Oak falls in love
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[00:03.37]	Gabriel Oak falls in love
[00:30.36]
[01:12.20]	Gabriel Oak was a sensible man of good character，
[01:15.98]	who had been brought up by his father as a shepherd，
[01:18.92]	and then managed to save enough money
[01:21.08]	to rent his own farm on Norcombe Hill，in Dorset.
[01:25.63]	He was twenty－eight，a tall，well－built man，
[01:29.21]	who did not seem，however，
[01:31.66]	to think his appear－ance was very important.
[01:34.10]
[01:36.49]	One winter morning
[01:38.19]	he was in one of his fields on the side of Norcombe Hill .
[01:41.57]	Looking over his gate，
[01:43.81]	Gabriel could see a yellow cart，
[01:47.01]	loaded with furniture and plants，
[01:49.85]	coming up the road.
[01:51.89]	Right on top of the pile
[01:54.03]	sat a handsome young woman
[01:57.61]	As Gabriel was watching，
[01:59.75]	the cart stopped at the top of the hill，
[02:02.64]	and the driver climbed down to go back
[02:05.57]	and fetch some－thing that had fallen off.
[02:06.77]
[02:08.96]	The girl sat quietly in the sunshine for a few minutes.
[02:13.38]	Then she picked up a parcel lying next to her，
[02:16.90]	and looked round to see if the driver was coming back.
[02:20.88]	There was no sign of him.
[02:23.47]	She unwrapped the parcel，
[02:25.46]	and took out the mirror it con-tained.
[02:29.71]	The sun shone on her lovely face and hair.
[02:33.69]	Although it was December，
[02:36.08]	she looked almost summery，
[02:38.92]	sitting there in her bright red jacket
[02:41.56]	with the fresh green plants around her.
[02:45.39]	She looked at herself in the mirror and smiled，
[02:49.57]	thinking that only the birds could see her.
[02:53.16]	But behind the gate Gabriel Oak was watching too.
[03:00.06]
[03:00.51]	‘She must be rather vain，’he thought.
[03:03.51]	‘She doesn't need to look in that mirror at all! ’
[03:06.95]
[03:08.59]	As the girl smiled and blushed at herself，
[03:11.53]	she seemed to be dreaming，
[03:14.22]	dreaming perhaps of men's hearts won and lost.
[03:19.70]	When she heard the driver's footsteps，
[03:22.19]	she packed the mirror away.
[03:25.17]	The cart moved on downhill to the toll－gate.
[03:29.35]	Gabriel followed on foot.
[03:31.96]	As he came closer he could hear the driver arguing with the gatekeeper.
[03:36.54]
[03:38.23]	‘My mistress's niece，
[03:40.22]	that's her on top of the furniture，
[03:42.86]	is not going to pay you the extra twopence ，’
[03:46.56]	said the driver.
[03:48.55]	‘She says she's offered you quite enough already. ’
[03:52.04]
[03:53.13]	‘Well，if she doesn't pay the toll，
[03:55.98]	your mistress's niece can't pass through the gate，’
[03:59.71]	replied the gatekeeper.
[04:01.40]
[04:02.65]	Gabriel thought that twopence did not seem worth bothering about,
[04:07.62]	so he stepped forward.
[04:09.93]	‘Here，’he said，
[04:12.03]	handing the coins to the gatekeeper，
[04:14.68]	‘let the young woman pass. ’
[04:16.72]
[04:18.31]	The girl in the red jacket looked carelessly down at Gabriel，
[04:22.81]	and told her man to drive on，
[04:25.40]	without even thanking the farmer.
[04:28.73]	Gabriel and the gatekeeper watched the cart move away.
[04:33.07]	‘That's a lovely young woman，’
[04:35.88]	said the gatekeeper.
[04:37.12]
[04:38.52]	‘But she has her faults，’
[04:40.51]	answered Gabriel.
[04:42.40]	‘True，farmer. ’
[04:44.90]	‘And the greatest of them is what it always is with women. ’
[04:49.40]	‘Wanting to win the argument every time？Oh，you're right. ’
[04:54.79]	‘No，her great fault is that she's vain. ’
[05:01.38]	A few days later，
[05:02.98]	at nearly midnight on the longest night of the year，
[05:06.66]	Gabriel Oak could be heard playing his flute on Nor-combe Hill.
[05:11.89]	The sky was so clear and the stars so visible
[05:16.38]	that the earth could almost be seen turning.
[05:20.21]	In that cold，hard air
[05:21.52]	the sweet notes of the flute rang out.
[05:26.46]	The music came from a little hut on wheels，
[05:29.89]	standing in the corner of a field.
[05:32.84]	Shep－herds'huts like this are used as a shelter during the winter and spring，
[05:37.97]	when shepherds have to stay out all night in the fields，
[05:41.05]	looking after very young lambs.
[05:43.65]
[05:44.89]	Gabriel's two hundred and fifty sheep were not yet paid for
[05:49.87]	He knew that，in order to make a success of the farming business，
[05:53.20]	he had to make sure they produced a large number of healthy lambs.
[05:59.18]	So he was determined to spend as many nights as necessary in the fields，
[06:04.02]	to save his lambs from dying of cold or hunger.
[06:08.40]
[06:09.90]	The hut was warm and quite comfortable inside.
[06:13.79]	There was a stove，
[06:15.13]	and some bread and beer on a shelf.
[06:18.22]	On each side of the hut was a round hole like a window，
[06:21.75]	which could be closed with a piece of wood.
[06:24.85]	These air－holes were usually kept open when the stove was burning，
[06:29.13]	because too much smoke in a small，
[06:31.12]	airless hut could kill the shepherd.
[06:35.51]
[06:36.70]	From time to time the sound of the flute stopped，
[06:39.19]	and Gabriel came out of his hut to check his sheep.
[06:43.67]	Whenever he discovered a half-dead new lamb，
[06:47.60]	he brought the creature into the hut.
[06:50.78]	In front of the stove it soon came back to life，
[06:54.47]	and then he could return it to its mother.
[06:57.41]
[06:58.71]	He noticed a light further down the hill.
[07:02.34]	It came from a wooden hut at the edge of a field.
[07:06.47]	He walked down to it and put his eye to a hole in the wood.
[07:12.20]	Inside，two women were feeding a sick cow.
[07:16.98]	One of the women was middle－aged.
[07:19.42]	The other was young and wore a cloak.
[07:22.26]	Gabriel could not see her face.
[07:24.76]
[07:26.26]	‘ I think she'll be all right now，aunt，’
[07:28.75]	said the younger woman.
[07:30.25]	‘I can come and feed her again in the morning.
[07:33.23]	What a pity I lost my hat on the way here!’
[07:37.41]	Just then the girl dropped her cloak，
[07:39.75]	and her long hair fell on to the shoulders of her red jacket.
[07:44.03]	Gabriel recognized the girl of the yellow cart and the mirror，
[07:49.18]	the girl who owed him twopence.
[07:51.83]
[07:52.93]	The women left the hut，
[07:55.18]	and Gabriel returned to his sheep.
[07:58.23]
[08:00.17]	As the sun was rising the next morning，
[08:03.06]	Gabriel waited outside his hut
[08:05.14]	until he saw the young woman riding up the hill.
[08:09.04]	She was sitting sideways on the horse
[08:11.64]	in the usual lady's position.
[08:15.08]	He suddenly thought of the hat she had lost，
[08:17.96]	searched for it，
[08:19.21]	and found it among some leaves on the ground.
[08:23.19]	He was just going to go up to her to give it back，
[08:26.27]	when the girl did some-thing very strange.
[08:30.31]	Riding under the low branches of a tree，
[08:33.39]	she dropped backwards flat on the horse's back，
[08:37.32]	with her feet on its shoulders.
[08:40.66]	Then，first looking round to make sure no one was watching，
[08:45.04]	she sat up straight again and pulled her dress to her knees，
[08:48.92]	with her legs on either side of the horse.
[08:52.51]	This was obviously easier for riding，
[08:55.30]	but not very ladylike.
[08:58.18]	Gabriel was surprised and amused by her behaviour.
[09:02.72]	He waited until she returned from her aunt's hut，
[09:06.90]	and stepped out into the path in front of her.
[09:11.38]	‘I found a hat，’he said.
[09:15.46]	‘It's mine，’she said.
[09:18.51]	She put it on and smiled. ‘It flew away. ’
[09:24.04]	‘At one o'clock this morning？’
[09:25.58]
[09:27.03]	‘Well，yes. I needed my hat this morning.
[09:30.56]	I had to ride to the hut in that field，
[09:33.10]	where there's a sick cow belonging to my aunt. ’
[09:36.15]
[09:36.84]	‘Yes，I know. I saw you. ’
[09:40.24]
[09:41.18]	‘Where？’she asked，horrified.
[09:44.91]
[09:45.91]	‘Riding all the way up the hill，along the path，’
[09:50.59]	said Gabriel，thinking of her unladylike position on the horse's back.
[09:55.57]
[09:56.87]	A deep blush spread from her head to her neck.
[10:01.65]	Gabriel turned sympathetically away，
[10:04.49]	wondering when he dared look at her again.
[10:07.88]	When he turned back，she had gone.
[10:12.22]
[10:13.26]	Five mornings and evenings passed.
[10:16.35]	The young woman came regularly to take care of the sick cow，
[10:20.50]	but never spoke to Gabriel.
[10:23.39]	He felt very sorry he had offended her so much
[10:26.83]	by telling her he had seen her when she thought she was alone.
[10:31.16]
[10:32.65]	Then，one freezing night，
[10:35.44]	Gabriel returned，exhausted，to his hut.
[10:39.86]	The warm air from the stove made him sleepy，
[10:44.16]	and he forgot to open one of the air-holes before going to sleep.
[10:49.55]	The next thing he knew was that the girl
[10:51.84]	with the lovely face was 10 with him in the hut，
[10:54.82]	holding his head in her arms.
[10:56.96]
[10:58.76]	‘Whatever is happening？’
[11:00.80]	he asked，only half－conscious.
[11:03.83]
[11:04.53]	‘Nothing now，’she answered，‘
[11:07.37]	but you could have died in this hut of yours. ’
[11:09.71]
[11:10.81]	‘Yes，I suppose I could，’said Gabriel.
[11:16.28]	He was hoping he could stay there，close to her,
[11:19.62]	for a long time He wanted to tell her so，
[11:24.05]	but he knew he could not express himself well，
[11:27.34]	so he stayed silent.
[11:30.03]	‘How did you find me？’
[11:32.42]	he asked in the end.
[11:34.06]
[11:35.70]	‘Oh，I heard your dog scratching at the door，
[11:37.89]	so I came to see what the matter was.
[11:39.98]	I opened the door，
[11:41.42]	and found you unconscious.
[11:44.01]	It must have been the smoke from the stove. ’
[11:47.45]
[11:48.60]	‘I believe you saved my life，Miss——
[11:51.79]	I don't know your name.
[11:53.03]
[11:54.43]	‘There's no need to know it.
[11:56.08]	I probably won't see you again. ’
[11:57.87]
[11:59.06]	‘My name is Gabriel Oak. ’
[12:02.41]
[12:02.96]	‘Mine isn't.
[12:04.21]	You sound very proud of your name. ’
[12:06.50]
[12:07.34]	‘Well，it's the only one I shall ever have. ’
[12:10.53]
[12:11.87]	‘I don't like mine. ’
[12:13.12]
[12:14.56]	‘I should think you'll soon get a new one. ’
[12:16.95]
[12:18.24]	‘Well！That's my business，Gabriel Oak. ’
[12:22.02]
[12:22.72]	‘I'm not very clever at talking，miss，
[12:26.65]	but I want to thank you.
[12:29.00]	Come，give me your hand！’
[12:31.40]
[12:32.74]	She hesitated，then offered her hand.
[12:34.64]	He took it，but held it for only a moment.
[12:41.01]	‘I'm sorry，’he said.
[12:43.70]	‘I didn't mean to let your hand go so quickly. ’
[12:47.34]
[12:47.79]	‘You may have it again then. Here it is. ’
[12:49.58]
[12:51.68]	Gabriel held it longer this time.
[12:55.12]	‘How soft it is，even in winter，
[12:58.95]	not rough at all! ’he said.
[13:01.94]
[13:03.83]	‘there，that's long enough，’she said，
[13:07.02]	but without pulling it away.
[13:10.16]	‘But I suppose you're thinking you'd like to kiss it？
[13:13.74]	You may if you want to. ’
[13:15.58]
[13:17.07]	‘I wasn't thinking any such thing，’
[13:19.57]	said Gabriel，‘but—’
[13:21.02]
[13:21.41]	‘Oh no you won't！’
[13:23.11]	She pulled her hand sharply away. ‘
[13:26.04]	Now discover my name，’she added，
[13:30.17]	laughing，and left.

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[00:03.37]	Gabriel Oak falls in love
[00:30.36]
[01:12.20]	Gabriel Oak was a sensible man of good character,
[01:15.98]	who had been brought up by his father as a shepherd,
[01:18.92]	and then managed to save enough money
[01:21.08]	to rent his own farm on Norcombe Hill, in Dorset.
[01:25.63]	He was twenty eight, a tall, well built man,
[01:29.21]	who did not seem, however,
[01:31.66]	to think his appear ance was very important.
[01:34.10]
[01:36.49]	One winter morning
[01:38.19]	he was in one of his fields on the side of Norcombe Hill .
[01:41.57]	Looking over his gate,
[01:43.81]	Gabriel could see a yellow cart,
[01:47.01]	loaded with furniture and plants,
[01:49.85]	coming up the road.
[01:51.89]	Right on top of the pile
[01:54.03]	sat a handsome young woman
[01:57.61]	As Gabriel was watching,
[01:59.75]	the cart stopped at the top of the hill,
[02:02.64]	and the driver climbed down to go back
[02:05.57]	and fetch some thing that had fallen off.
[02:06.77]
[02:08.96]	The girl sat quietly in the sunshine for a few minutes.
[02:13.38]	Then she picked up a parcel lying next to her,
[02:16.90]	and looked round to see if the driver was coming back.
[02:20.88]	There was no sign of him.
[02:23.47]	She unwrapped the parcel,
[02:25.46]	and took out the mirror it contained.
[02:29.71]	The sun shone on her lovely face and hair.
[02:33.69]	Although it was December,
[02:36.08]	she looked almost summery,
[02:38.92]	sitting there in her bright red jacket
[02:41.56]	with the fresh green plants around her.
[02:45.39]	She looked at herself in the mirror and smiled,
[02:49.57]	thinking that only the birds could see her.
[02:53.16]	But behind the gate Gabriel Oak was watching too.
[03:00.06]
[03:00.51]	' She must be rather vain,' he thought.
[03:03.51]	' She doesn' t need to look in that mirror at all! '
[03:06.95]
[03:08.59]	As the girl smiled and blushed at herself,
[03:11.53]	she seemed to be dreaming,
[03:14.22]	dreaming perhaps of men' s hearts won and lost.
[03:19.70]	When she heard the driver' s footsteps,
[03:22.19]	she packed the mirror away.
[03:25.17]	The cart moved on downhill to the toll gate.
[03:29.35]	Gabriel followed on foot.
[03:31.96]	As he came closer he could hear the driver arguing with the gatekeeper.
[03:36.54]
[03:38.23]	' My mistress' s niece,
[03:40.22]	that' s her on top of the furniture,
[03:42.86]	is not going to pay you the extra twopence ,'
[03:46.56]	said the driver.
[03:48.55]	' She says she' s offered you quite enough already. '
[03:52.04]
[03:53.13]	' Well, if she doesn' t pay the toll,
[03:55.98]	your mistress' s niece can' t pass through the gate,'
[03:59.71]	replied the gatekeeper.
[04:01.40]
[04:02.65]	Gabriel thought that twopence did not seem worth bothering about,
[04:07.62]	so he stepped forward.
[04:09.93]	' Here,' he said,
[04:12.03]	handing the coins to the gatekeeper,
[04:14.68]	' let the young woman pass. '
[04:16.72]
[04:18.31]	The girl in the red jacket looked carelessly down at Gabriel,
[04:22.81]	and told her man to drive on,
[04:25.40]	without even thanking the farmer.
[04:28.73]	Gabriel and the gatekeeper watched the cart move away.
[04:33.07]	' That' s a lovely young woman,'
[04:35.88]	said the gatekeeper.
[04:37.12]
[04:38.52]	' But she has her faults,'
[04:40.51]	answered Gabriel.
[04:42.40]	' True, farmer. '
[04:44.90]	' And the greatest of them is what it always is with women. '
[04:49.40]	' Wanting to win the argument every time? Oh, you' re right. '
[04:54.79]	' No, her great fault is that she' s vain. '
[05:01.38]	A few days later,
[05:02.98]	at nearly midnight on the longest night of the year,
[05:06.66]	Gabriel Oak could be heard playing his flute on Norcombe Hill.
[05:11.89]	The sky was so clear and the stars so visible
[05:16.38]	that the earth could almost be seen turning.
[05:20.21]	In that cold, hard air
[05:21.52]	the sweet notes of the flute rang out.
[05:26.46]	The music came from a little hut on wheels,
[05:29.89]	standing in the corner of a field.
[05:32.84]	Shep herds' huts like this are used as a shelter during the winter and spring,
[05:37.97]	when shepherds have to stay out all night in the fields,
[05:41.05]	looking after very young lambs.
[05:43.65]
[05:44.89]	Gabriel' s two hundred and fifty sheep were not yet paid for
[05:49.87]	He knew that, in order to make a success of the farming business,
[05:53.20]	he had to make sure they produced a large number of healthy lambs.
[05:59.18]	So he was determined to spend as many nights as necessary in the fields,
[06:04.02]	to save his lambs from dying of cold or hunger.
[06:08.40]
[06:09.90]	The hut was warm and quite comfortable inside.
[06:13.79]	There was a stove,
[06:15.13]	and some bread and beer on a shelf.
[06:18.22]	On each side of the hut was a round hole like a window,
[06:21.75]	which could be closed with a piece of wood.
[06:24.85]	These air holes were usually kept open when the stove was burning,
[06:29.13]	because too much smoke in a small,
[06:31.12]	airless hut could kill the shepherd.
[06:35.51]
[06:36.70]	From time to time the sound of the flute stopped,
[06:39.19]	and Gabriel came out of his hut to check his sheep.
[06:43.67]	Whenever he discovered a halfdead new lamb,
[06:47.60]	he brought the creature into the hut.
[06:50.78]	In front of the stove it soon came back to life,
[06:54.47]	and then he could return it to its mother.
[06:57.41]
[06:58.71]	He noticed a light further down the hill.
[07:02.34]	It came from a wooden hut at the edge of a field.
[07:06.47]	He walked down to it and put his eye to a hole in the wood.
[07:12.20]	Inside, two women were feeding a sick cow.
[07:16.98]	One of the women was middle aged.
[07:19.42]	The other was young and wore a cloak.
[07:22.26]	Gabriel could not see her face.
[07:24.76]
[07:26.26]	' I think she' ll be all right now, aunt,'
[07:28.75]	said the younger woman.
[07:30.25]	' I can come and feed her again in the morning.
[07:33.23]	What a pity I lost my hat on the way here!'
[07:37.41]	Just then the girl dropped her cloak,
[07:39.75]	and her long hair fell on to the shoulders of her red jacket.
[07:44.03]	Gabriel recognized the girl of the yellow cart and the mirror,
[07:49.18]	the girl who owed him twopence.
[07:51.83]
[07:52.93]	The women left the hut,
[07:55.18]	and Gabriel returned to his sheep.
[07:58.23]
[08:00.17]	As the sun was rising the next morning,
[08:03.06]	Gabriel waited outside his hut
[08:05.14]	until he saw the young woman riding up the hill.
[08:09.04]	She was sitting sideways on the horse
[08:11.64]	in the usual lady' s position.
[08:15.08]	He suddenly thought of the hat she had lost,
[08:17.96]	searched for it,
[08:19.21]	and found it among some leaves on the ground.
[08:23.19]	He was just going to go up to her to give it back,
[08:26.27]	when the girl did something very strange.
[08:30.31]	Riding under the low branches of a tree,
[08:33.39]	she dropped backwards flat on the horse' s back,
[08:37.32]	with her feet on its shoulders.
[08:40.66]	Then, first looking round to make sure no one was watching,
[08:45.04]	she sat up straight again and pulled her dress to her knees,
[08:48.92]	with her legs on either side of the horse.
[08:52.51]	This was obviously easier for riding,
[08:55.30]	but not very ladylike.
[08:58.18]	Gabriel was surprised and amused by her behaviour.
[09:02.72]	He waited until she returned from her aunt' s hut,
[09:06.90]	and stepped out into the path in front of her.
[09:11.38]	' I found a hat,' he said.
[09:15.46]	' It' s mine,' she said.
[09:18.51]	She put it on and smiled. ' It flew away. '
[09:24.04]	' At one o' clock this morning?'
[09:25.58]
[09:27.03]	' Well, yes. I needed my hat this morning.
[09:30.56]	I had to ride to the hut in that field,
[09:33.10]	where there' s a sick cow belonging to my aunt. '
[09:36.15]
[09:36.84]	' Yes, I know. I saw you. '
[09:40.24]
[09:41.18]	' Where?' she asked, horrified.
[09:44.91]
[09:45.91]	' Riding all the way up the hill, along the path,'
[09:50.59]	said Gabriel, thinking of her unladylike position on the horse' s back.
[09:55.57]
[09:56.87]	A deep blush spread from her head to her neck.
[10:01.65]	Gabriel turned sympathetically away,
[10:04.49]	wondering when he dared look at her again.
[10:07.88]	When he turned back, she had gone.
[10:12.22]
[10:13.26]	Five mornings and evenings passed.
[10:16.35]	The young woman came regularly to take care of the sick cow,
[10:20.50]	but never spoke to Gabriel.
[10:23.39]	He felt very sorry he had offended her so much
[10:26.83]	by telling her he had seen her when she thought she was alone.
[10:31.16]
[10:32.65]	Then, one freezing night,
[10:35.44]	Gabriel returned, exhausted, to his hut.
[10:39.86]	The warm air from the stove made him sleepy,
[10:44.16]	and he forgot to open one of the airholes before going to sleep.
[10:49.55]	The next thing he knew was that the girl
[10:51.84]	with the lovely face was 10 with him in the hut,
[10:54.82]	holding his head in her arms.
[10:56.96]
[10:58.76]	' Whatever is happening?'
[11:00.80]	he asked, only half conscious.
[11:03.83]
[11:04.53]	' Nothing now,' she answered,'
[11:07.37]	but you could have died in this hut of yours. '
[11:09.71]
[11:10.81]	' Yes, I suppose I could,' said Gabriel.
[11:16.28]	He was hoping he could stay there, close to her,
[11:19.62]	for a long time He wanted to tell her so,
[11:24.05]	but he knew he could not express himself well,
[11:27.34]	so he stayed silent.
[11:30.03]	' How did you find me?'
[11:32.42]	he asked in the end.
[11:34.06]
[11:35.70]	' Oh, I heard your dog scratching at the door,
[11:37.89]	so I came to see what the matter was.
[11:39.98]	I opened the door,
[11:41.42]	and found you unconscious.
[11:44.01]	It must have been the smoke from the stove. '
[11:47.45]
[11:48.60]	' I believe you saved my life, Miss
[11:51.79]	I don' t know your name.
[11:53.03]
[11:54.43]	' There' s no need to know it.
[11:56.08]	I probably won' t see you again. '
[11:57.87]
[11:59.06]	' My name is Gabriel Oak. '
[12:02.41]
[12:02.96]	' Mine isn' t.
[12:04.21]	You sound very proud of your name. '
[12:06.50]
[12:07.34]	' Well, it' s the only one I shall ever have. '
[12:10.53]
[12:11.87]	' I don' t like mine. '
[12:13.12]
[12:14.56]	' I should think you' ll soon get a new one. '
[12:16.95]
[12:18.24]	' Well! That' s my business, Gabriel Oak. '
[12:22.02]
[12:22.72]	' I' m not very clever at talking, miss,
[12:26.65]	but I want to thank you.
[12:29.00]	Come, give me your hand!'
[12:31.40]
[12:32.74]	She hesitated, then offered her hand.
[12:34.64]	He took it, but held it for only a moment.
[12:41.01]	' I' m sorry,' he said.
[12:43.70]	' I didn' t mean to let your hand go so quickly. '
[12:47.34]
[12:47.79]	' You may have it again then. Here it is. '
[12:49.58]
[12:51.68]	Gabriel held it longer this time.
[12:55.12]	' How soft it is, even in winter,
[12:58.95]	not rough at all! ' he said.
[13:01.94]
[13:03.83]	' there, that' s long enough,' she said,
[13:07.02]	but without pulling it away.
[13:10.16]	' But I suppose you' re thinking you' d like to kiss it?
[13:13.74]	You may if you want to. '
[13:15.58]
[13:17.07]	' I wasn' t thinking any such thing,'
[13:19.57]	said Gabriel,' but'
[13:21.02]
[13:21.41]	' Oh no you won' t!'
[13:23.11]	She pulled her hand sharply away. '
[13:26.04]	Now discover my name,' she added,
[13:30.17]	laughing, and left.

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[00:03.37]	Gabriel Oak falls in love
[00:30.36]
[01:12.20]	Gabriel Oak was a sensible man of good character,
[01:15.98]	who had been brought up by his father as a shepherd,
[01:18.92]	and then managed to save enough money
[01:21.08]	to rent his own farm on Norcombe Hill, in Dorset.
[01:25.63]	He was twenty eight, a tall, well built man,
[01:29.21]	who did not seem, however,
[01:31.66]	to think his appear ance was very important.
[01:34.10]
[01:36.49]	One winter morning
[01:38.19]	he was in one of his fields on the side of Norcombe Hill .
[01:41.57]	Looking over his gate,
[01:43.81]	Gabriel could see a yellow cart,
[01:47.01]	loaded with furniture and plants,
[01:49.85]	coming up the road.
[01:51.89]	Right on top of the pile
[01:54.03]	sat a handsome young woman
[01:57.61]	As Gabriel was watching,
[01:59.75]	the cart stopped at the top of the hill,
[02:02.64]	and the driver climbed down to go back
[02:05.57]	and fetch some thing that had fallen off.
[02:06.77]
[02:08.96]	The girl sat quietly in the sunshine for a few minutes.
[02:13.38]	Then she picked up a parcel lying next to her,
[02:16.90]	and looked round to see if the driver was coming back.
[02:20.88]	There was no sign of him.
[02:23.47]	She unwrapped the parcel,
[02:25.46]	and took out the mirror it contained.
[02:29.71]	The sun shone on her lovely face and hair.
[02:33.69]	Although it was December,
[02:36.08]	she looked almost summery,
[02:38.92]	sitting there in her bright red jacket
[02:41.56]	with the fresh green plants around her.
[02:45.39]	She looked at herself in the mirror and smiled,
[02:49.57]	thinking that only the birds could see her.
[02:53.16]	But behind the gate Gabriel Oak was watching too.
[03:00.06]
[03:00.51]	' She must be rather vain,' he thought.
[03:03.51]	' She doesn' t need to look in that mirror at all! '
[03:06.95]
[03:08.59]	As the girl smiled and blushed at herself,
[03:11.53]	she seemed to be dreaming,
[03:14.22]	dreaming perhaps of men' s hearts won and lost.
[03:19.70]	When she heard the driver' s footsteps,
[03:22.19]	she packed the mirror away.
[03:25.17]	The cart moved on downhill to the toll gate.
[03:29.35]	Gabriel followed on foot.
[03:31.96]	As he came closer he could hear the driver arguing with the gatekeeper.
[03:36.54]
[03:38.23]	' My mistress' s niece,
[03:40.22]	that' s her on top of the furniture,
[03:42.86]	is not going to pay you the extra twopence ,'
[03:46.56]	said the driver.
[03:48.55]	' She says she' s offered you quite enough already. '
[03:52.04]
[03:53.13]	' Well, if she doesn' t pay the toll,
[03:55.98]	your mistress' s niece can' t pass through the gate,'
[03:59.71]	replied the gatekeeper.
[04:01.40]
[04:02.65]	Gabriel thought that twopence did not seem worth bothering about,
[04:07.62]	so he stepped forward.
[04:09.93]	' Here,' he said,
[04:12.03]	handing the coins to the gatekeeper,
[04:14.68]	' let the young woman pass. '
[04:16.72]
[04:18.31]	The girl in the red jacket looked carelessly down at Gabriel,
[04:22.81]	and told her man to drive on,
[04:25.40]	without even thanking the farmer.
[04:28.73]	Gabriel and the gatekeeper watched the cart move away.
[04:33.07]	' That' s a lovely young woman,'
[04:35.88]	said the gatekeeper.
[04:37.12]
[04:38.52]	' But she has her faults,'
[04:40.51]	answered Gabriel.
[04:42.40]	' True, farmer. '
[04:44.90]	' And the greatest of them is what it always is with women. '
[04:49.40]	' Wanting to win the argument every time? Oh, you' re right. '
[04:54.79]	' No, her great fault is that she' s vain. '
[05:01.38]	A few days later,
[05:02.98]	at nearly midnight on the longest night of the year,
[05:06.66]	Gabriel Oak could be heard playing his flute on Norcombe Hill.
[05:11.89]	The sky was so clear and the stars so visible
[05:16.38]	that the earth could almost be seen turning.
[05:20.21]	In that cold, hard air
[05:21.52]	the sweet notes of the flute rang out.
[05:26.46]	The music came from a little hut on wheels,
[05:29.89]	standing in the corner of a field.
[05:32.84]	Shep herds' huts like this are used as a shelter during the winter and spring,
[05:37.97]	when shepherds have to stay out all night in the fields,
[05:41.05]	looking after very young lambs.
[05:43.65]
[05:44.89]	Gabriel' s two hundred and fifty sheep were not yet paid for
[05:49.87]	He knew that, in order to make a success of the farming business,
[05:53.20]	he had to make sure they produced a large number of healthy lambs.
[05:59.18]	So he was determined to spend as many nights as necessary in the fields,
[06:04.02]	to save his lambs from dying of cold or hunger.
[06:08.40]
[06:09.90]	The hut was warm and quite comfortable inside.
[06:13.79]	There was a stove,
[06:15.13]	and some bread and beer on a shelf.
[06:18.22]	On each side of the hut was a round hole like a window,
[06:21.75]	which could be closed with a piece of wood.
[06:24.85]	These air holes were usually kept open when the stove was burning,
[06:29.13]	because too much smoke in a small,
[06:31.12]	airless hut could kill the shepherd.
[06:35.51]
[06:36.70]	From time to time the sound of the flute stopped,
[06:39.19]	and Gabriel came out of his hut to check his sheep.
[06:43.67]	Whenever he discovered a halfdead new lamb,
[06:47.60]	he brought the creature into the hut.
[06:50.78]	In front of the stove it soon came back to life,
[06:54.47]	and then he could return it to its mother.
[06:57.41]
[06:58.71]	He noticed a light further down the hill.
[07:02.34]	It came from a wooden hut at the edge of a field.
[07:06.47]	He walked down to it and put his eye to a hole in the wood.
[07:12.20]	Inside, two women were feeding a sick cow.
[07:16.98]	One of the women was middle aged.
[07:19.42]	The other was young and wore a cloak.
[07:22.26]	Gabriel could not see her face.
[07:24.76]
[07:26.26]	' I think she' ll be all right now, aunt,'
[07:28.75]	said the younger woman.
[07:30.25]	' I can come and feed her again in the morning.
[07:33.23]	What a pity I lost my hat on the way here!'
[07:37.41]	Just then the girl dropped her cloak,
[07:39.75]	and her long hair fell on to the shoulders of her red jacket.
[07:44.03]	Gabriel recognized the girl of the yellow cart and the mirror,
[07:49.18]	the girl who owed him twopence.
[07:51.83]
[07:52.93]	The women left the hut,
[07:55.18]	and Gabriel returned to his sheep.
[07:58.23]
[08:00.17]	As the sun was rising the next morning,
[08:03.06]	Gabriel waited outside his hut
[08:05.14]	until he saw the young woman riding up the hill.
[08:09.04]	She was sitting sideways on the horse
[08:11.64]	in the usual lady' s position.
[08:15.08]	He suddenly thought of the hat she had lost,
[08:17.96]	searched for it,
[08:19.21]	and found it among some leaves on the ground.
[08:23.19]	He was just going to go up to her to give it back,
[08:26.27]	when the girl did something very strange.
[08:30.31]	Riding under the low branches of a tree,
[08:33.39]	she dropped backwards flat on the horse' s back,
[08:37.32]	with her feet on its shoulders.
[08:40.66]	Then, first looking round to make sure no one was watching,
[08:45.04]	she sat up straight again and pulled her dress to her knees,
[08:48.92]	with her legs on either side of the horse.
[08:52.51]	This was obviously easier for riding,
[08:55.30]	but not very ladylike.
[08:58.18]	Gabriel was surprised and amused by her behaviour.
[09:02.72]	He waited until she returned from her aunt' s hut,
[09:06.90]	and stepped out into the path in front of her.
[09:11.38]	' I found a hat,' he said.
[09:15.46]	' It' s mine,' she said.
[09:18.51]	She put it on and smiled. ' It flew away. '
[09:24.04]	' At one o' clock this morning?'
[09:25.58]
[09:27.03]	' Well, yes. I needed my hat this morning.
[09:30.56]	I had to ride to the hut in that field,
[09:33.10]	where there' s a sick cow belonging to my aunt. '
[09:36.15]
[09:36.84]	' Yes, I know. I saw you. '
[09:40.24]
[09:41.18]	' Where?' she asked, horrified.
[09:44.91]
[09:45.91]	' Riding all the way up the hill, along the path,'
[09:50.59]	said Gabriel, thinking of her unladylike position on the horse' s back.
[09:55.57]
[09:56.87]	A deep blush spread from her head to her neck.
[10:01.65]	Gabriel turned sympathetically away,
[10:04.49]	wondering when he dared look at her again.
[10:07.88]	When he turned back, she had gone.
[10:12.22]
[10:13.26]	Five mornings and evenings passed.
[10:16.35]	The young woman came regularly to take care of the sick cow,
[10:20.50]	but never spoke to Gabriel.
[10:23.39]	He felt very sorry he had offended her so much
[10:26.83]	by telling her he had seen her when she thought she was alone.
[10:31.16]
[10:32.65]	Then, one freezing night,
[10:35.44]	Gabriel returned, exhausted, to his hut.
[10:39.86]	The warm air from the stove made him sleepy,
[10:44.16]	and he forgot to open one of the airholes before going to sleep.
[10:49.55]	The next thing he knew was that the girl
[10:51.84]	with the lovely face was 10 with him in the hut,
[10:54.82]	holding his head in her arms.
[10:56.96]
[10:58.76]	' Whatever is happening?'
[11:00.80]	he asked, only half conscious.
[11:03.83]
[11:04.53]	' Nothing now,' she answered,'
[11:07.37]	but you could have died in this hut of yours. '
[11:09.71]
[11:10.81]	' Yes, I suppose I could,' said Gabriel.
[11:16.28]	He was hoping he could stay there, close to her,
[11:19.62]	for a long time He wanted to tell her so,
[11:24.05]	but he knew he could not express himself well,
[11:27.34]	so he stayed silent.
[11:30.03]	' How did you find me?'
[11:32.42]	he asked in the end.
[11:34.06]
[11:35.70]	' Oh, I heard your dog scratching at the door,
[11:37.89]	so I came to see what the matter was.
[11:39.98]	I opened the door,
[11:41.42]	and found you unconscious.
[11:44.01]	It must have been the smoke from the stove. '
[11:47.45]
[11:48.60]	' I believe you saved my life, Miss
[11:51.79]	I don' t know your name.
[11:53.03]
[11:54.43]	' There' s no need to know it.
[11:56.08]	I probably won' t see you again. '
[11:57.87]
[11:59.06]	' My name is Gabriel Oak. '
[12:02.41]
[12:02.96]	' Mine isn' t.
[12:04.21]	You sound very proud of your name. '
[12:06.50]
[12:07.34]	' Well, it' s the only one I shall ever have. '
[12:10.53]
[12:11.87]	' I don' t like mine. '
[12:13.12]
[12:14.56]	' I should think you' ll soon get a new one. '
[12:16.95]
[12:18.24]	' Well! That' s my business, Gabriel Oak. '
[12:22.02]
[12:22.72]	' I' m not very clever at talking, miss,
[12:26.65]	but I want to thank you.
[12:29.00]	Come, give me your hand!'
[12:31.40]
[12:32.74]	She hesitated, then offered her hand.
[12:34.64]	He took it, but held it for only a moment.
[12:41.01]	' I' m sorry,' he said.
[12:43.70]	' I didn' t mean to let your hand go so quickly. '
[12:47.34]
[12:47.79]	' You may have it again then. Here it is. '
[12:49.58]
[12:51.68]	Gabriel held it longer this time.
[12:55.12]	' How soft it is, even in winter,
[12:58.95]	not rough at all! ' he said.
[13:01.94]
[13:03.83]	' there, that' s long enough,' she said,
[13:07.02]	but without pulling it away.
[13:10.16]	' But I suppose you' re thinking you' d like to kiss it?
[13:13.74]	You may if you want to. '
[13:15.58]
[13:17.07]	' I wasn' t thinking any such thing,'
[13:19.57]	said Gabriel,' but'
[13:21.02]
[13:21.41]	' Oh no you won' t!'
[13:23.11]	She pulled her hand sharply away. '
[13:26.04]	Now discover my name,' she added,
[13:30.17]	laughing, and left.

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