1 Her father coughed in his chair.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VI 2 "Goodbye, father," said Tess, with a lumpy throat.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VII 3 Her father alone preserved an attitude of neutrality.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VI 4 It grew later, and neither father nor mother reappeared.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 5 "I would rather stay here with father and you," she said.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VI 6 The groan had proceeded from her father's poor horse Prince.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 7 I heard 'em talking about it up at Rolliver's when I went to find father.'
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 8 They went home together, Tess holding one arm of her father, and Mrs Durbeyfield the other.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 9 I want to go and fetch your father; but what's more'n that, I want to tell 'ee what have happened.'
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 10 '"'At the present moment,' he says to your father, 'your heart is enclosed all round there, and all round there; this space is still open,' 'a says.'
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 11 Tess's pride would not allow her to turn her head again, to learn what her father's meaning was, if he had any; and thus she moved on with the whole body to the enclosure where there was to be dancing on the green.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 12 Having at last taken her course Tess was less restless and abstracted, going about her business with some self-assurance in the thought of acquiring another horse for her father by an occupation which would not be onerous.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VI 13 Then, examining the mesh of events in her own life, she seemed to see the vanity of her father's pride; the gentlemanly suitor awaiting herself in her mother's fancy; to see him as a grimacing personage, laughing at her poverty and her shrouded knightly ancestry.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 14 She might have stayed even later, but the incident of her father's odd appearance and manner returned upon the girl's mind to make her anxious, and wondering what had become of him she dropped away from the dancers and bent her steps towards the end of the village at which the parental cottage lay.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 15 His own investigations had begun on a day in the preceding spring when, having been engaged in tracing the vicissitudes of the d'Urberville family, he had observed Durbeyfield's name on his waggon, and had thereupon been led to make inquiries about his father and grandfather till he had no doubt on the subject.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 16 However, Tess became humanely beneficent towards the small ones, and to help them as much as possible she used, as soon as she left school, to lend a hand at haymaking or harvesting on neighbouring farms; or, by preference, at milking or butter-making processes, which she had learnt when her father had owned cows; and being deft-fingered it was a kind of work in which she excelled.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: V 17 Even to her mother's gaze the girl's young features looked sadly out of place amid the alcoholic vapours which floated here as no unsuitable medium for wrinkled middle-age; and hardly was a reproachful flash from Tess's dark eyes needed to make her father and mother rise from their seats, hastily finish their ale, and descend the stairs behind her, Mrs Rolliver's caution following their footsteps.
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