![]() ![]() The townspeople, unaware of their history, call for Bathsheba to hire the heroic Gabriel as a shepherd, to which she assents. The barn coincidentally belongs to Bathsheba, who has inherited her uncle’s farm. ![]() Spotting a barn on fire, he leaps to work to save it. Some months later, he is travelling to look for work when he finds himself in Weatherbury. ![]() Shortly thereafter, Gabriel’s sheepdog in training mistakenly drives his entire flock over a cliff, bankrupting Gabriel. He quickly falls in love and asks her to marry him however, she rejects his proposal and soon moves away to nearby Weatherbury. One day, he makes the acquaintance of Bathsheba Everdene, who is staying with her aunt nearby, when she saves him from accidental suffocation. The novel begins in the town of Norcombe, where Gabriel Oak is a young farmer. ![]()
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