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Damon Wildeve
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Damon Wildeve, fictional character, an innkeeper who is secretly involved in a passionate affair with Eustacia Vye though engaged (and later married) to Thomasin Yeobright, in the novel The Return of the Native (1878) by Thomas Hardy.
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