CHAPTER XXIII

EVENTIDE--A SECOND DECLARATION

For the shearing-supper a long table was placed on the grass-plot beside the house, the end of the table being thrust over the sill of the wide parlour window and a foot or two into the room. Miss Everdene sat inside the window, facing down the table. She was thus at the head without mingling with the men.

This evening Bathsheba was unusually excited, her red cheeks and lips contrasting lustrously with the mazy skeins of her shadowy hair. She seemed to expect assistance, and the seat at the bottom of the table was at her request left vacant until after they had begun the meal. She then asked Gabriel to take the place and the duties appertaining to that end, which he did with great readiness.

At this moment Mr. Boldwood came in at the gate, and crossed the green to Bathsheba at the window. He apologized for his lateness: his arrival was evidently by arrangement.

"Gabriel," said she, "will you move again, please, and let Mr. Boldwood come there?"

Oak moved in silence back to his original seat.

The gentleman-farmer was dressed in cheerful style, in a new coat and white waistcoat, quite contrasting with his usual sober suits of grey. Inwardy, too, he was blithe, and consequently chatty to an exceptional degree. So also was Bathsheba now that he had come, though the uninvited presence of Pennyways, the bailiff who had been dismissed for theft, disturbed her equanimity for a while.

Supper being ended, Coggan began on his own private account, without reference to listeners:-- What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. what chapter is this
2. what is the title
3. who was not mingling with the male group
4. who came into the gate
5. ws he late
6. why was Gabrial asked to move
7. what style was the farmer dressed in
8. where did miss evedene sit
9. where was the table being pushed
10. how is bathsebas hair discribed
11. who was uninvited
12. who began his own private account after supper
13. who moved back to his original seat
14. was the table short or long
15. who was dismissed for theft
16. how did Bathsheba feel that night
17. was this a large dinner party
18. did anyone die
19. did anyone become ill from the food
Answer: 1. CHAPTER XXIII
2. EVENTIDE--A SECOND DECLARATION
3. Miss Everdene
4. Mr. Boldwood
5. yes
6. to let Mr. Boldwood go there?
7. in cheerful style
8. inside the window, facing down the table
9. over the sill of the wide parlour window and a foot or two into the room
10. unusually excited
11. Pennyways
12. Coggan
13. Oak
14. it was a long table
15. the bailiff
16. blithe
17. yes
18. no
19. no

My name is Sandra. Let me tell you the story of the best meal I ever had.

I was sitting on the school bench outside Springfield Elementary School, waiting to pick up my granddaughter. She is a real cutie, and I am very proud of her grades. To pass the time, I played my triangle. In my youth, I was a triangle player in a large New York band, the Black Triangles. We all wore full black costumes every time we played.

"What lovely triangle music! You make me think of a friend I had once upon a time."

A strange lady, about my age, was standing next to me, talking! She was holding a trumpet. It turns out the strange lady was my old friend and Black Triangle trumpet player Matilda. We hadn't seen each other since New York. Matilda told me she wanted to keep in touch, but couldn't remember what I looked like! We found out that all we remembered were the black costumes we always wore! It turns out; Matilda was also there to pick someone up from school.

"Well, Sandra, why don't you join me and my grandson for lunch? There is a lovely Thai place right down the road.'

We went there with my granddaughter and her grandson, and had a delicious meal. Our grandchildren got married 15 years later. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What is the narrator's name?
2. What is her story about?
3. Where was she sitting?
4. What was she sitting on?
5. Why?
6. Is her granddaughter cute?
7. What is she proud of?
8. What did she do to pass the time?
9. What did she do in her youth?
10. Where?
11. Was it a large band?
12. What was the band's name?
13. Did the band wear costumes?
14. What color?
15. Who spoke to her?
16. How old was she?
17. Was she sitting or standing?
18. What was she holding?
19. What was the lady's name?
Answer: 1. Sandra.
2. The best meal she ever had.
3. Outside Springfield Elementary School.
4. The school bench.
5. She was waiting to pick up her granddaughter.
6. Yes.
7. Her grades.
8. Played her triangle.
9. Played a triangle for a band.
10. New York.
11. Yes.
12. The Black Triangles.
13. Yes.
14. Black.
15. A strange lady.
16. About Sandra's age.
17. Standing.
18. A trumpet.
19. Matilda.

O'Fallon, Missouri (CNN) -- Nathan Halbach is 22, with a diagnosis of terminal brain cancer. He knows that "horrible stuff" lies ahead.

His mother, Pat Bond, has been taking care of him full time. But when she needed help, she reached out to the Roman Catholic Church.

After all, his father is a priest.

Nathan was born in 1986, during a five-year affair between his mother and Father Henry Willenborg, the Franciscan priest who celebrated Nathan's baptism. In a story first reported in the New York Times, it was revealed that The Franciscan Order drew up an agreement acknowledging the boy's paternity and agreeing to pay child support in exchange for a pledge of confidentiality.

Now her son -- the youngest of four children -- may have just weeks to live. And when the Franciscans balked at paying for his care, she decided she was no longer bound by her pledge of confidentiality.

"I never asked for extraordinary amounts. I asked for the basic needs and care of my son," Bond told CNN's "AC 360." But she said the church told her, "No, we are not Nathan's biological father, we have no legal obligation to your son."

Willenborg, whose priestly vows require celibacy, has been suspended from his most recent assignment, in northern Wisconsin, as Catholic leaders investigate allegations that he was involved with another woman -- then in high school -- around the same time he was seeing Bond. Willenborg has acknowledged his relationship with Bond, but denies any inappropriate relationship with the other woman while she was a minor, according to his current bishop. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who is Nathan Halbach's mom?
2. Who has she asked to help her?
3. What does his father do?
4. When was he born?
5. How old does that make him?
6. Is he healthy?
7. What was he diagnosed with?
8. Who takes care of him?
9. Were his parents married when he was born?
10. How long was their affair?
11. Who pays the child support?
12. In exchange for what?
13. Why did she break that pledge?
14. How long does her son have to live?
15. Did she ask for a lot of money?
16. What did she ask for?
17. Was she the only one that his father was involved with?
Answer:
1. Pat Bond
2. the Roman Catholic Church.
3. He is a priest.
4. 1986
5. 22
6. No.
7. Brain cancer.
8. His mother.
9. No.
10. Five years.
11. The Franciscan Order.
12. A pledge of confidentiality.
13. The Franciscans balked at paying for his care.
14. Weeks.
15. No.
16. The basic needs and care of her son,
17. No.