Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid
Author: first_name: Thomas
last_name: Hardy
Language: English
Year: 0

A milkmaid, Margery, encounters a mysterious foreigner and perhaps prevents him from committing suicide. In gratitude, the man offers her any reward she can name. She tells him she wants to go to a ball.  He takes her, admittedly a bit reluctantly, to a yeoman's ball in a neighboring county. From there the story continues because of course, a lot happens after the ball.  She happens to already have an engagement to a local lad but his hold over her seems to grow of its own accord.  This Hardy st