1 The interior, in spite of the melody, struck upon the girl's senses with an unspeakable dreariness.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 2 Her mother could not repress her consciousness of the nuptial vision conjured up by the girl's consent.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VI 3 Hastily lowering the basket the dark girl found that the vessel containing the syrup had been smashed within.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: X 4 There was a dreaminess, a pre-occupation, an exaltation, in the maternal look which the girl could not understand.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 5 Thus it was arranged; and the young girl wrote, agreeing to be ready to set out on any day on which she might be required.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VI 6 Mr d'Urberville says you must be a good girl if you are at all as you appear; he knows you must be worth your weight in gold.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VI 7 Her mother's pride in the girl's appearance led her to step back, like a painter from his easel, and survey her work as a whole.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: VII 8 The girl's surprise at Mrs d'Urberville's manner was not great; for since seeing the size of the house she had expected no more.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IX 9 The rickety little waggon was already laden, and the girl led out the horse, Prince, only a degree less rickety than the vehicle.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 10 In the Durbeyfield countenances there was nothing of the red wrath that would have burnt upon the girl from parents more ambitious for her welfare.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IV 11 The old lady was not present, and turning round the girl had an impression that the toes of a pair of boots were visible below the fringe of the curtains.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: IX 12 In addition to the distinction of a white frock, every woman and girl carried in her right hand a peeled willow wand, and in her left a bunch of white flowers.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 13 The name of the eclipsing girl, whatever it was, has not been handed down; but she was envied by all as the first who enjoyed the luxury of a masculine partner that evening.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 14 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 15 A small minority, mainly strangers, would look long at her in casually passing by, and grow momentarily fascinated by her freshness, and wonder if they would ever see her again: but to almost everybody she was a fine and picturesque country girl, and no more.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: II 16 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 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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