1 "Ah, that's the secret," said Joan Durbeyfield sagely.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 2 "I see the tracks of a horse outside the window," said Joan.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: LI 3 Then Tess went up to her mother, put her face upon Joan's neck, and told.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XII 4 There were tears also in Joan Durbeyfield's eyes as she turned to go home.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VII 5 Even now, when burdened with a young family, Joan Durbeyfield was a passionate lover of tune.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 6 Joan Durbeyfield, as she spoke, curved a sodden thumb and forefinger to the shape of the letter C, and used the other forefinger as a pointer.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 7 Joan Durbeyfield always managed to find consolation somewhere: "Well, as one of the genuine stock, she ought to make her way with 'en, if she plays her trump card aright.'"
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VII 8 Her mother's intelligence was that of a happy child: Joan Durbeyfield was simply an additional one, and that not the eldest, to her own long family of waiters on Providence.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: V 9 But her mother heard, and Joan's simple vanity, having been denied the hope of a dashing marriage, fed itself as well as it could upon the sensation of a dashing flirtation.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIII 10 However, as the moment for the girl's setting out drew nigh, when the first excitement of the dressing had passed off, a slight misgiving found place in Joan Durbeyfield's mind.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VII 11 Tess wrote a most touching and urgent letter to her mother the very next day, and by the end of the week a response to her communication arrived in Joan Durbeyfield's wandering last-century hand.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 4 The Consequence: XXXI 12 When the large articles of furniture had been packed in position, a circular nest was made of the beds and bedding, in which Joan Durbeyfield and the young children were to sit through the journey.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: LII 13 Joan stated that they were in dreadful difficulty; the autumn rains had gone through the thatch of the house, which required entire renewal; but this could not be done because the previous thatching had never been paid for.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLI 14 By this means they had found that she was living here again; her mother was scolded for "harbouring" her; sharp retorts had ensued from Joan, who had independently offered to leave at once; she had been taken at her word; and here was the result.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: LI 15 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 16 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.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 17 After her first burst of disappointment Joan began to take the mishap as she had taken Tess's original trouble, as she would have taken a wet holiday or failure in the potato-crop; as a thing which had come upon them irrespective of desert or folly; a chance external impingement to be borne with; not a lesson.
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