Hardy Thomas. Jude the Obscure

Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT, SAT, GRE, LSAT, GMAT, and AP English Test Preparation.The schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everybody seemed sorry. The
miller at Cresscombe lent him the small white tilted cart and horse to carry his
goods to the city of his destination, about twenty miles off, such a vehicle
proving of quite sufficient size for the departing teacher's effects. For the
schoolhouse had been partly furnished by the managers, and the only
cumbersome article possessed by the master, in addition to the packing-case of
books, was a cottage piano that he had bought at an auction during the year in
which he thought of learning instrumental music. But the enthusiasm having
waned he had never acquired any skill in playing, and the purchased article had
been a perpetual trouble to him ever since in moving house.
The rector had gone away for the day, being a man who disliked the sight of
changes. He did not mean to return till the evening, when the new schoolteacher
would have arrived and settled in, and everything would be smooth
again.
The blacksmith, the farm bailiff, and the schoolmaster himself were
standing in perplexed attitudes in the parlour before the instrument. The master
had remarked that even if he got it into the cart he should not know what to do
with it on his arrival at Christminster, the city he was bound for, since he was
only going into temporary lodgings just at first.