Far from the Madding Crowd keep his appointment with Fanny. Seeing the reason for her failure to meet him, he gently kisses the corpse and tells the anguished Bathsheba, "This woman is more to me, dead as she is, than ever you were, or are, or can be". The next day he spends all his money on a marble tombstone with the inscription: "Erected by Francis Troy in beloved memory of Fanny Robin ..." Then, loathing himself and unable to bear Bathsheba's company, he leaves. After a long walk he bathes in the sea, leaving his clothes on the beach. A strong current carries him
In the Beginning: The Bible Stories In the Beginning: The Bible Stories "In the Beginning" marked the fourth time Bible stories formed the basis of a Japanese-animated television series, following the two "Superbook" series and "The Flying House", which were made for Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network by Tatsunoko Production in the early 1980s. "In the Beginning" features episodes devoted to most of the major Bible stories of the Old Testament, including the stories of the Creation, Cain and Abel, Noah's Ark, Abraham and Isaac, Joseph, Moses, David, and Solomon, with the final episode featuring the birth of Jesus Christ. As with the second "Superbook" series,