Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  Passage: I te tau 1870, i a ia e mahi ana i te mahi hoahoanga ki te whakahoki mai i te whare karakia o St Juliot i Cornwall, ka tutaki a Hardy ka aroha ki a Emma Gifford, i marenatia e ia ki Kensington i te ngahuru o te tau 1874. te riihi i te Villa o St David, Southborough (i Surbiton inaianei) mo te tau. I te tau 1885 ka neke a Thomas raua ko tana wahine ki Max Gate, he whare i hangaia e Hardy, i hangaia e tona tuakana. Ahakoa i muri mai ka noho wehe raua, ko te matenga o Emma i te tau 1912 he tino raru ki a ia, ana i muri i tana matenga, ka haere a Hardy ki Cornwall ki te tirotiro ano i nga waahi e pa ana ki ta raua whakaipoipo; ko ana Poems 1912<unk>13 e whakaaro ana ki tona matenga. I te tau 1914, ka marenatia a Hardy ki tana kaitiaki a Florence Emily Dugdale, 39 tau te pakeke o ia. Heoi, i noho tonu ia ki te mate o tana wahine tuatahi, ka ngana ki te wikitoria i tana pouri ma te tuhi pakiwaitara. I ona tau whakamutunga, i pupuri ia i tetahi Wire Fox Terrier ko Wessex te ingoa, he tino kino te riri. Ka kitea te kohatu o te urupa o Wessex i te whenua o Max Gate. I te tau 1910, i tohua a Hardy hei Mema o te Order of Merit, a ko ia hoki te wa tuatahi i tohua mo te Tohu Nobel i roto i nga Pukapuka. Tekau ma tahi tau i muri mai ka tohua ano ia mo te tohu.  Pātai: He aha te ingoa tuatahi o te wahine a Hardy?
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