Jude the Obscure Part 2 Chapter 1

In which a young and earnest Jude Fawley, freed from the harshness of his past, arrives at the venerable city of Christminster with quietly eager steps, seeking lodging and the company of old memories and scholarly shadows. Amidst ancient quadrangles and whispering walls, he encounters spectral echoes of the learned and the lofty, while the faint voice of kin and friendship stirs anew within his contemplative breast.