# The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament

Author: Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3326

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Well-Beloved%3A+A+Sketch+of+a+Temperament+Hardy&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The peninsula carved by Time out of a single stone, whereon most of the following scenes are laid, has been for centuries immemorial the home of a curious and well-nigh distinct people, cherishing strange beliefs and singular customs, now for the most part obsolescent. Fancies, like certain soft-wooded plants which cannot bear the silent inland frosts, but thrive by the sea in the roughest of weather, seem to grow up naturally here, in particular amongst those natives who have no active concern in the labours of the 'Isle.' Hence it is a spot apt to generate a type of personage like the character imperfectly sketched in these pages--a native of natives--whom some may choose to call a fant...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-well-beloved-a-sketch-of-a-temperament-3326/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-well-beloved-a-sketch-of-a-temperament-3326/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-well-beloved-a-sketch-of-a-temperament-3326/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-well-beloved-a-sketch-of-a-temperament-3326/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-well-beloved-a-sketch-of-a-temperament-3326/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-well-beloved-a-sketch-of-a-temperament-3326/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-well-beloved-a-sketch-of-a-temperament-3326/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-well-beloved-a-sketch-of-a-temperament-3326/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-well-beloved-a-sketch-of-a-temperament-3326/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-well-beloved-a-sketch-of-a-temperament-3326/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-well-beloved-a-sketch-of-a-temperament-3326/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-well-beloved-a-sketch-of-a-temperament-3326/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-well-beloved-a-sketch-of-a-temperament-3326/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-well-beloved-a-sketch-of-a-temperament-3326/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-well-beloved-a-sketch-of-a-temperament-3326/chapters/15/index.md)