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Why Gabriel took it as a sign that Bathsheba loved him?

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Why Gabriel took it as a sign that Bathsheba loved him?

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The context is the novel Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy.

Gabriel Oak was saintly. Bathsheba Everdene was beauty. One day Gabriel, a good shepherd, saw a beautiful girl coming in his village and he couldn't know when he was engulfed by love for her.

One day, Gabriel got himself unknowingly caught in smoke and fire and was almost dying when Bathsheba noticed the smoke and came rescue him. Soon after this incident, Gabriel went to Bathsheba's house to ask her if she would like to marry him. Why Gabriel took the act of saving as an indication of love? Did he really think that she loved her or was it due to suffocation that he asked her to marry him?
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