The Mayor of Casterbridge
WHAT DO THE PEOPLE IN CASTERBRIDGE KNOW ABOUT HENCHARD'S PAST?
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They know he was a drunkard.
"But I know that 'a's a banded teetotaller, and that if any of his men be ever so little overtook by a drop he's down upon 'em as stern as the Lord upon the jovial Jews."
But they don't know what happened to his wife, and they believe him to be a widower.
The Mayor of Casterbridge