Water Sheds.

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Water Sheds

Gertrude Lodge is a woman of quite high nobility and happens to be very young yet attractive. She has come from afar to live with her newly wedded husband, farmer Lodge, in the quiet countryside of Casterbridge. Nearby is the Egdon Heath which is a desolate moor. She is a thoughtful and kind lady, one that is rare to find at that age. Gertrude has often visited the other farms and rented lands to help the residents/tenants with what she can spare or afford. In one such example she helps Jamie Brook by purchasing some durable boots to replace his tatty-worn out ones.

She did this out of kindness without a possible motive behind it. Though it has to be said, that one noticeable element of the beautiful Gertrude is that she prides herself in her own image. This means that she wishes to look beautiful constantly and when she had picked up that crude 'withering' on her arm, she had become quite solace and bitter about it. She was adamant to do anything to rid it, no matter how preposterous it sounded. Gertude lives another disgrace, that she can't bare children for her