1 "Good night, Sir John," said the parson.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 2 "Good night t'ee," said the man with the basket.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 3 I am Parson Tringham, the antiquary, of Stagfoot Lane.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 4 And to think that I and these noble d'Urbervilles were one flesh all the time.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 5 Throw up your chin a moment, so that I may catch the profile of your face better.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 6 It is a fact of some interest to the local historian and genealogist, nothing more.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 7 There are several families among the cottagers of this county of almost equal lustre.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 8 Your ancestor was one of the twelve knights who assisted the Lord of Estremavilla in Normandy in his conquest of Glamorganshire.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 9 Branches of your family held manors over all this part of England; their names appear in the Pipe Rolls in the time of King Stephen.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 10 And here have I been knocking about, year after year, from pillar to post, as if I was no more than the commonest feller in the parish.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 11 The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 12 An empty egg-basket was slung upon his arm, the nap of his hat was ruffled, a patch being quite worn away at its brim where his thumb came in taking it off.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 13 You declined a little in Oliver Cromwell's time, but to no serious extent, and in Charles the Second's reign you were made Knights of the Royal Oak for your loyalty.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 14 On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore, or Blackmoor.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 15 It was only my whim," he said; and, after a moment's hesitation: "It was on account of a discovery I made some little time ago, whilst I was hunting up pedigrees for the new county history.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 16 In the reign of King John one of them was rich enough to give a manor to the Knights Hospitallers; and in Edward the Second's time your forefather Brian was summoned to Westminster to attend the great Council there.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: I 17 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.
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