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to serve a timber-framed construction with straps and wheels appertaining the threshing-machine which whilst it was going kept up a despotic demand upon the endurance of their muscles and nerves
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and it was the business of the two women to grub up the lower or earthy half of the root with a hooked fork called a hacker that it might be eaten also every leaf of the vegetable having already been consumed the whole field was in colour a desolate drab
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some day they thought that this was evasiveness only yes going to marry him-a gentleman repeated izz huett
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would the position have caused her to despair no she would have taken it calmly and found pleasure therein most of the misery had been generated by her conventional aspect and not by her innate sensations
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she put her hand in his and thus they went on to a place where the reflected sun glared up from the river under a bridge with a molten metallic glow that dazzled their eyes though the sun itself was hidden by the bridge
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as soon therefore as the uniform cloak of darkness without began to turn to a disordered medley of grays they blew out the lamp wrapped themselves up in their thickest pinners tied their woollen cravats round their necks and across their chests and started for the barn
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she also assented to this though i do more real work to-day than all the week besides do you all the week i work for the glory of man and on sunday for the glory of god that's more real than the other hey i
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don't mention my little brothers and sisters dont make me break down quite she said if you want to help them god knows they need it do it without telling me
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but tess set to work patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity was now no longer a minor feature in mrs angel clare and it sustained her
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she reassured him on that point and he surveyed her up and down she had been staying indoors a good deal and her complexion had grown delicate quite sure you can stand it tis comfortable enough here for rough folk
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farmer groby having insisted upon their being on the spot thus early to get the job over if possible by the end of the day close under the eaves of the stack and as yet barely visible was the red tyrant that the women had come to serve a
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nevertheless he loved his misnamed angel and in secret mourned over this treatment of him as abraham might have mourned over the doomed isaac while they went up the hill together
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we shall have plenty of time hereafter i hope to talk over our failings i will confess mine at the same time but it would be better for me to do it now i think so that you could not say-well
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here mrs durbeyfield began shedding tears on her own account as a mother to be pitied what your father will say i don't know she continued
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for heaven's sake pop thy hands under the pump deb upon my soul if the london folk only knowed of thee and thy slovenly ways they'd swaller their milk and butter more mincing than they do a'ready and that's saying a good deal
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instead of the colourless air of the uplands the atmosphere down there was a deep blue instead of the great enclosures of a hundred acres in which she was now accustomed to toil there were little fields below her of less than half-a-dozen acres so numerous that they looked from this height like the meshes of a net
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long locks of which weed had lodged against the piles driven to keep the cows from crossing yes there was the pain of it this question of a woman telling her story-the heaviest of crosses to herself seemed but amusement to others
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whenever this happened the dairy was paralyzed squish squash echoed the milk in the great cylinder but never arose the sound they waited for dairyman crick and his wife the milkmaids tess marian retty priddle izz huett and the married ones from the cottages
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this night the woman of his belittling deprecations was thinking how great and good her husband was but over them both there hung a deeper shade than the shade which angel clare perceived
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he's going to marry her murmured retty never taking eyes off tess how her face do show it you be going to marry him asked marian yes said tess
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clare was so pained and perplexed that he ran after and caught her in the passage tell me tell me he said passionately clasping her in forgetfulness of his curdy hands do tell me that you won't belong to anybody but me
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oh no-it is nothing said tess then the talk was of business only you can milk em clean my maidy i don't want my cows going azew at this time o year
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very well miss independence please yourself then i shall not hurry my good lord what a kick-up they are having there
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she reflected and with her acute memory for the letter of angel clare's remarks even when she did not comprehend their spirit she recalled a merciless polemical syllogism that she had heard him use
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your experiences dear yes certainly any number he expressed assent in loving satire looking into her face my tess
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the marked civility of clare's tone in calling her seemed to have inspired her for the moment with a new glimmer of hope but it soon died when she looked at him
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tess inclined to the freedom and novelty of her new position in the morning when the sun shone now that she was once installed there and she was curious to test her powers in the unexpected direction asked of her so as to ascertain her chance of retaining her post
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and therefore we must make the best of it but i do entreat you to endeavour to keep as much as possible in touch with moral ideals farming of course means roughing it externally but high thinking may go with plain living nevertheless
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one day she was pink and flawless another pale and tragical when she was pink she was feeling less than when pale her more perfect beauty accorded with her less elevated mood her more intense mood with her less perfect beauty
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she put her mouth against the wall and kissed the shade of his mouth i zid her though he didn't o izz huett said marian a rosy spot came into the middle of izz huett's cheek
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the removing of those things that are shaken as of things that are made that those things which cannot be shaken may remain his father grieved so deeply that it made angel quite ill to see him
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but if it comes to intellectual grasp i think you as a contented dogmatist had better leave mine alone and inquire what has become of yours
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she remained fruitlessly blowing and blowing wondering how she could have so grown out of the art which had come by nature till she became aware of a movement among the ivy-boughs which cloaked the garden-wall no less then the cottage
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the marble hardness left her face she moved with something of her old bounding step and flushed in all her young beauty at moments in spite of thought she would reply to their inquiries with a manner of superiority
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but he has done it in an hour with us my dear years ago thus they passed the minutes each well knowing that this was only waste of breath the one essential being simply to wait
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tess knew that it was impossible to go on with the swedes and by the time she had finished breakfast beside the solitary little lamp marian arrived to tell her that they were to join the rest of the women at reed drawing in the barn till the weather changed
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i know that i thought angel that you loved me-me my very self if it is i you do love o how can it be that you look and speak so it frightens me
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of course it may said angel was it not proved nineteen hundred years ago if i may trespass upon your domain a little why should you think felix that i am likely to drop my high thinking and my moral ideals
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rendering useless the two buttons behind which twinkled and bristled with sunbeams at every movement of each wearer as if they were a pair of eyes in the small of his back
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yet so entirely was his mind blinded to the idea of his wife's following him that even when she came nearer he did not recognize her under the totally changed attire in which he now beheld her it was not till she was quite close that he could believe her to be
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perhaps there's a good deal to be said for him he did not go away like some husbands without telling me and i can always find out where he is after this they continued for some long time in a reverie
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my dear son possibly you have forgotten that on the death of your godmother mrs pitney when you were a lad she vain kind woman that she was left
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for hours nothing relieved the joyless monotony of things then far beyond the ploughing teams a black speck was seen it had come from the corner of a fence where there was a gap and its tendency was up the incline towards the swede cutters
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when as it occasionally happened he indulged in a species of thinking aloud with her at his side in delivering it she gave also clare's accent and manner with reverential faithfulness
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she mercilessly nipped her eyebrows off and thus insured against aggressive admiration she went on her uneven way what a mommet of a maid said the next man who met her to a companion tears came into her eyes for very pity of herself as she heard him
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had looked so superior as she walked across the barton on that afternoon of her arrival that she was of a good family she could have sworn in point of fact mrs crick did remember thinking that tess was graceful and good-looking as she approached
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in their sad doubts as to whether their son had himself any right whatever to the title he claimed for the unknown young woman mr and mrs clare began to feel it as an advantage not to be overlooked
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but for me it was no light promise i want to make a confession to you love this from him so unexpectedly apposite had the effect upon her of a providential interposition
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clare's shape appeared at the door you must not work like this he said you are not my servant you are my wife she raised her eyes and brightened somewhat i may think myself that indeed she murmured in piteous raillery
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violent motion relieved thought the plot of ground was in a high dry open enclosure where there were forty or fifty such pieces and where labour was at its briskest when the hired labour of the day had ended
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the general sitting-room was full of guests who were continually going in and out as the door opened and shut each time for the passage of these the light within the parlour fell full upon tess's face two men came out and passed by her among the rest one of them had stared her up and down in surprise
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she could answer no more than a bare affirmative so great was the emotion aroused in her at the thought of going through the world with him as his own familiar friend her feelings almost filled her ears like a babble of waves and surged up to her eyes
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tessy o no-no replied she with grave hopelessness as one who had heard anew the turmoil of her own past in the allusion to alec d'urberville it can't be
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i repeat the woman i have been loving is not you but who another woman in your shape she perceived in his words the realization of her own apprehensive foreboding in former times
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do you mind my smoking he asked oh not at all sir he watched her pretty and unconscious munching through the skeins of smoke that pervaded the tent and tess durbeyfield did not divine as she innocently looked down at the roses in her bosom
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the eldest wore the white tie high waistcoat and thin brimmed hat of the regulation curate the second was the normal undergraduate the appearance of the third and youngest would hardly have been sufficient to characterize him
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but his sorrow was not for izz that evening he was within a feather weights turn of abandoning his road to the nearest station and driving across that elevated dorsal line of south wessex which divided him from his tess's home
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he is a mighty handsome man i don't think so said tess coldly well there's your chance whether or no and i'm sure he wears a beautiful diamond ring
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chapter thirty in the diminishing daylight they went along the level roadway through the meads which stretched away into gray miles and were backed in the extreme edge of distance by the swarthy and abrupt slopes of egdon
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of the methods of bolting and the old-fashioned machinery which he feared would not enlighten him greatly on modern improved methods some of it seeming to have been in use ever since the days it ground for the monks in the adjoining conventual buildings now a heap of ruins
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my dear girl-a d'urberville hurt the dignity of a clare it is a grand card to play that of your belonging to such a family and i am reserving it for a grand effect when we are married and have the proofs of your descent from parson tringham
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on disconnecting herself by littles from her eventful past at every step obliterating her identity giving no thought to accidents or contingencies which might make a quick discovery of her whereabouts by others of importance to her own happiness if not to theirs
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everything on this snug property was bright thriving and well kept acres of glass-houses stretched down the inclines to the copses at their feet everything looked like money like the last coin issued from the mint
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and therefore unknightly unhistorical i'll rock the cradle for ee mother said the daughter gently or i'll take off my best frock and help you wring up i thought you had finished long ago
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presently looking back she perceived that the church party had left the gate with her boots and retreated down the hill thereupon our heroine resumed her walk tears blinding tears were running down her face
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that interchanged their hues with her every pulsation do you remember what we said to each other this morning about telling our faults he asked abruptly finding that she still remained immovable we spoke lightly perhaps and you may well have done so
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it is silly to pretend otherwise amongst ourselves though we need not own it to other folks i would just marry n to-morrow so would i-and more murmured izz huett and i too whispered the more timid
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with this view he was returning to emminster to disclose his plan to his parents and to make the best explanation he could make of arriving without tess short of revealing what had actually separated them
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yet could a woman who had done even what she had done deserve all this but she could contest the point with him no further she simply repeated after him his own words until you come to me i must not try to come to you just so
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i will i will tell you she exclaimed and i will give you a complete answer if you will let me go now i will tell you my experiences all about myself all your
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she could not understand why he should be addressed as sir even by the dairyman himself but no explanation was discernible he remained under the cow long enough to have milked three uttering a private ejaculation now and then as if he could not get on
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and the other two laid their arms round her waist all looking into her face how it do seem almost more than i can think of said izz huett marian kissed tess yes she murmured as she withdrew her lips
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hasn't it struck you cuthbert now felix said angel drily we are very good friends you know each of us treading our allotted circles
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mr clare volunteered to do so though it was none of his business asking tess to accompany him the evening though sunless had been warm and muggy for the season and tess had come out with her milking hood only naked armed and jacketless certainly not dressed for a drive
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if she tried to be cheerful to dismiss all care to take pleasure in the daylight the flowers the baby she could only be this idea to them ah she bears it very well
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i am so anxious to talk to you-i want to confess all my faults and blunders she said with attempted lightness no no we can't have faults talked of-you must be deemed perfect to-day at least my sweet he cried
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but no no she cried i will take nothing from you either for them or for me he did not accompany her further since as she lived with the household all was public indoors
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tess who continued to live at the cottage with the warm gable that cheered any lonely pedestrian who paused beside it awoke in the night and heard above the thatch noises which seemed to signify that the roof had turned itself into a gymnasium of all the winds
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the university as a step to anything but ordination seemed to this man of fixed ideas a preface without a volume he was a man not merely religious but devout a firm believer not as the phrase is now elusively construed by theological thimble-riggers in the church and out of it
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what's done can't be undone i'm sure i don't know why children o my bringing forth should all be bigger simpletons than other peoples not to know better than to blab such a thing as that when he couldn't ha found it out till too late
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my husband that was is gone away and never will love me any more but i love him just the same and hate all other men and like to make em think scornfully of me
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he was obliged to advance with outstretched hands to avoid contact with the boughs and discovered that to hit the exact spot from which he had started was at first entirely beyond him
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yes they didn't know where you were it was only by chance that i found you here the cold moon looked aslant upon tess's fagged face between the twigs of the garden-hedge as she paused outside the cottage which was her temporary home d'urberville pausing beside her
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her mother bore tess no ill-will for leaving the housework to her single-handed efforts for so long indeed joan seldom upbraided her thereon at any time feeling but slightly the lack of tess's assistance whilst her instinctive plan for relieving herself of her labours lay in postponing them
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