All 3 Uses of
equanimity
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- Moreover, she had hardly recovered her equanimity since the disturbance which she had suffered from Oak's remarks.†
Chpt 19-21 *equanimity = a calm mental state under difficult circumstances
- 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.†
Chpt 22-24
- While she had known him to be alive she could have thought of his death with equanimity; but now that it might be she had lost him, she regretted that he was not hers still.†
Chpt 49-51