Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 1100
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“Why, maidy” (he frequently, with unconscious irony, gave her this pet name), “the prettiest milker I’ve got in my dairy; you mustn’t get so fagged as this at the first breath of summer weather, or we shall be finely put to for want of ’ee by dog-days, shan’t we, Mr Clare?”