Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 1073
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It was then, as has been said, that she impressed him most deeply. She was no longer the milkmaid, but a visionary essence of woman—a whole sex condensed into one typical form. He called her Artemis, Demeter, and other fanciful names half teasingly, which she did not like because she did not understand them.