The Trumpet-Major

King's Morning opens; Boys Together opens; Rejected Addresses opens; Love Before Breakfast opens; the Closing Hour closes.

Loveday drummers + Mill + trumpet-major + Anne on the down + closing hour = plot 80.

John Loveday in this her drummer; Anne Garland in this her down.

John Loveday + Anne Garland + trumpet-major + Bob + Mill = cast 84.

[T]he seasonal pace is the early-Hardy seasonal pace; the rural pace is the early-Hardy pace.

8 books × 6–10 chapters; Hardy before the darker phase = pace 84.

[T]he military diction is the early-Hardy military diction; the down is the early-Hardy down.

Hardy before the darker phase; the military diction = prose 89.

[T]he Napoleonic Wessex is the early-Hardy Wessex; the Militia is the early-Hardy Militia.

Napoleonic Wessex; the Militia; the Overcombe Mill = world 90.

King's Morning opens; the Overcombe Mill opens the novel.

'King's Morning' — Overcombe Mill opens = hook 86.

[T]he rusticity of the military is the early-Hardy rusticity; the military novel is the early-Hardy military novel.

The Trumpet-Major: Hardy before the darker phase = innov 86.

[T]he closing hour; Bob the drummer's wound; the Wessex closes.

'The Closing Hour' — Bob the drummer's wound = ending 87.