Return of the Native Book 3 Chapter 2

In which a young man returns to his ancestral heath, resolved to abandon commerce for the humble calling of a teacher to the poor, much to his mother’s dismay, while the village buzzes with tales of a mysterious woman reputed to be bewitched. The heath’s timeless presence stands in subtle contrast to the stirrings of new thoughts and old superstitions weaving through the lives of its denizens.