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Jude and Sue had stood parting in the silent highway,and their tense and
passionate moods had led to bewildered inquiries of each other on how far
their intimacy ought to go;till they had almost quarrelled,and she said
tearfully that it was hardly proper of him as a parson in embryo to think
of such a thing as kissing her even in farewell,as he not wished to do.Then
she had conceded that the fact of the kiss would be nothing:all would depend
upon the spirit of it.If given in the spirit of a cousin and a friend she saw
no objection:if in the spirit of a lover she could not permit it."will you
swear that it will not be in that spirit?"she had said.

No:he would not.And then they had turned from each other in estrangement,and
gone their several ways,till at a distance of twenty or thirty yards both had
looked round simultaneously.That look behind was fatal to the reserve hitherto
more or less maintained.They had quickly run back ,and met, and embracing most
unpremeditatedly,kissed close and long.When they parted for good it was with
flushed cheeks on her side,and a beating heart on his.
  The kiss was a turning-point in Jude's career.Back again in the cottage,
and left to reflection, he saw one thing:that though his kiss of that
aerial being had seemed the purest moment of his faultful life,as long as
he nourished this unlicensed tenderness it was glaringly inconsistent for
him to pursue the idea of becoming the soldier and savant of religion in
which sexual love was regarded as at best a frailty,and at its worst dam-
nation.What Sue had said in warmth was really the cold truth.When to defend
his affection tooth and nail, to persist with headlong force in impassioned
attentions to her,was all he thought of,he was condemned ipso facto as a pro-
fessor of the accepted school of morals.He was as unfit,obviously,by nature,
as he had been by social position, to fill the part of a propounder of accred-
ited dogma.