บท 160: Swindlers bankrupt

Ickapoo seeks love, but he should be wary of swindlers.

Far from the madding crowd is Thomas Hardy’s tale of Bathsheba Everdene, a young farming heiress and the choices she is presented in love: Gabriel Oark, Troy and Mr Boldwood. Bathsheba is of a rather wilful and restless temperament and feels initially though Oak proposes to her that he is not good enough for her or strong enough to tame her and satisfy her restlessness and wilfulness, a man whom she deems worthy for this cause if Sergeant Troy, who turns out to be an arch dissembler whom she invests wrongly in passion as he spends all her inheritance at race horsing and leaves her ruined while he proclaims at Fanny’s funeral that he never really loved Bathsheba. It thus turns out that while sexual passion and conquest was what drew Bathsheba initially to Sergeant Troy, these turn out to be ephemeral fancies as Troy proves to be her ruin and destruction