Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 1259
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Tess was taken completely by surprise, and she yielded to his embrace with unreflecting inevitableness. Having seen that it was really her lover who had advanced, and no one else, her lips parted, and she sank upon him in her momentary joy, with something very like an ecstatic cry.