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Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.

In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was and forgot the defective can be more than the entire

Don't for God's sake speak as saint to sinner, but as you yourself to me myself - poor me!

And the d'Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing.

She suddenly thought one afternoon, when looking in the glass at her fairness, that there was yet another date, of greater importance to her than those; that of her own death, when all these charms would have disappeared; a day which lay sly and unseen among all the other days of the year, giving no sign or sound when she annually passed over it; but not the less surely there. When was it? Why did she not feel the chill of each yearly encounter with such a cold relation? She had Jeremy Taylor's thought that some time in the future those who had known her would say, 'It is the -th, the day that poor Tess Durbeyfield died'; and there would be nothing singular to their minds in the statement. Of that day, doomed to be her terminus in time through all the ages, she did not know the place in month, week, season, or year.

you temptress,Tess; you dear damned witch of Babylon- I could not resist you as soon as I met you again.

The floating pollen seemed to be his notes made visible, and the dampness of the garden the weeping of the garden's sensibility.

A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.