Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman

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Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman

Phase the First: The Maiden, I-XI

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Phase the Second: Maiden No More, XII-XV

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Phase the Third: The Rally, XVI-XXIV

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Phase the Fourth: The Consequence, XXV-XXXIV

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Phase the Fifth: The Woman Pays, XXXV-XLIV

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Phase the Sixth: The Convert, XLV-LII

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Phase the Seventh: Fulfilment, LIII-LIX

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On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore, or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line. He occasionally gave a smart nod, as if in confirmation of some opinion, though he was not thinking of anything in particular. An empty egg-basket was slung upon his arm, the nap of his hat was ruffled, a patch being quite worn away at its brim where his thumb came in taking it off. Presently he was met by an elderly parson astride on a gray mare, who, as he rode, hummed a wandering tune.

"Good night t'ee," said the man with the basket.

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Then Durbeyfield began to shovel in the earth, and the children cried anew. All except Tess. Her face was dry and pale, as though she regarded herself in the light of a murderess.

To be as much out of observation as possible for reasons of her own, and to escape the gallantries of the young men, she set out before the chiming began, and took a back seat under the gallery, close to the lumber, where only old men and women came, and where the bier stood on end among the churchyard tools.

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