1 "I'll rock the cradle for 'ee, mother," said the daughter gently.'
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 2 Having performed this without observing Tess, she went indoors, and her daughter followed her.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXVIII 3 Mr Clare the elder, whose first wife had died and left him a daughter, married a second late in life.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVIII 4 The light-minded woman had been discovering good matches for her daughter almost from the year of her birth.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VI 5 "The poor man can't go," she said to her eldest daughter, whose great eyes had opened the moment her mother's hand touched the door.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 6 She is not what in common parlance is called a lady," said Angel, unflinchingly, "for she is a cottager's daughter, as I am proud to say.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXVI 7 And as he looked at the unpracticed mouth and lips, he thought that such a daughter of the soil could only have caught up the sentiment by rote.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XIX 8 The father, and even the mother, had got drunk at times, the younger children seldom had gone to church, and the eldest daughter had made queer unions.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: LI 9 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 10 J write these few lines to say that my Daughter is away from me at present, and J am not sure when she will return, but J will let you know as Soon as she do.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 7 Fulfilment: LIII 11 When Tess had occupied herself about an hour the next morning in altering and improving the arrangements, according to her skilled ideas as the daughter of a professed poulterer, the door in the wall opened and a servant in white cap and apron entered.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IX 12 Nick-knock, nick-knock, went the cradle; the candle-flame stretched itself tall, and began jigging up and down; the water dribbled from the matron's elbows, and the song galloped on to the end of the verse, Mrs Durbeyfield regarding her daughter the while.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 13 Upon the whole she felt gratified, even though such a limited and evanescent triumph should involve her daughter's reputation; it might end in marriage yet, and in the warmth of her responsiveness to their admiration she invited her visitors to stay to tea.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIII 14 So on this, the first Lady-Day on which the Durbeyfields were expellable, the house, being roomy, was required for a carter with a large family; and Widow Joan, her daughters Tess and 'Liza-Lu, the boy Abraham, and the younger children had to go elsewhere.'
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: LI 15 Though this conversation had been private, sufficient of its import reached the understandings of those around to suggest to them that the Durbeyfields had weightier concerns to talk of now than common folks had, and that Tess, their pretty eldest daughter, had fine prospects in store.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 16 Between the mother, with her fast-perishing lumber of superstitions, folk-lore, dialect, and orally transmitted ballads, and the daughter, with her trained National teachings and Standard knowledge under an infinitely Revised Code, there was a gap of two hundred years as ordinarily understood.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 17 The letter was in the third person, and briefly informed Mrs Durbeyfield that her daughter's services would be useful to that lady in the management of her poultry-farm, that a comfortable room would be provided for her if she could come, and that the wages would be on a liberal scale if they liked her.
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