How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Here, under the table, and leaning against forms and chairs in every conceivable attitude except the perpendicular, were the wretched persons of all the workfolk, the hair of their heads at such low level being suggestive of mops and brooms. (36.32)
When Gabriel realizes that Bathsheba's crops will be ruined by rain, he runs to find the workmen to help him cover the crops. But he discovers them all passed out after a night of partying with Sergeant Troy. Not a single one of them is reliable except for Oak, who takes it upon himself to do the work of ten men and save Bathsheba's crops.
Quote #5
Sergeant Troy had so strenuously insisted, glass in hand, that drinking should be the bond of their union that those who wished to refuse hardly liked to be so unmannerly in other circumstances. (36.41)
Sergeant Troy likes to drink so much that he's willing to throw his wife out of her own wedding party so that he can get drunk with all the workmen. On top of that, he demands that everyone around him get just as drunk as he does, even threatening to fire some people who won't drink. How's that for peer pressure?
Quote #6
"They are all asleep in the barn, in a drunken sleep, and my husband among them. That's it, is it not?" (37.30)
Bathsheba isn't one bit impressed by the way her husband and all of her workers have gotten drunk, especially considering how a thunderstorm is about to ruin their entire year's work if someone doesn't cover the crops.