1 "Some imposter who wished to come into the town barefoot, perhaps, and so excite our sympathies," said Miss Chant.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLIV 2 On his way back he encountered Miss Mercy Chant by the church, from whose walls she seemed to be a sort of emanation.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XL 3 The young lady was Miss Mercy Chant, the only daughter of his father's neighbour and friend, whom it was his parents' quiet hope that he might wed some day.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXV 4 They said nothing, however, which particularly interested her till, observing the young lady still further in front, one of them remarked, "There is Mercy Chant."
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLIV 5 Tess did not read Church-Latin like a Cardinal, but she knew that this was the door of her ancestral sepulchre, and that the tall knights of whom her father had chanted in his cups lay inside.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: LII 6 She did, indeed, take sufficient interest in herself to throw up her veil on this return journey, as if to let the world see that she could at least exhibit a face such as Mercy Chant could not show.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLIV 7 She tried several ballads, but found them inadequate; till, recollecting the psalter that her eyes had so often wandered over of a Sunday morning before she had eaten of the tree of knowledge, she chanted: "O ye Sun and Moon."
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVI