Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 1336
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“Yes, yes; Mercy is good and devout, I know. But, father, don’t you think that a young woman equally pure and virtuous as Miss Chant, but one who, in place of that lady’s ecclesiastical accomplishments, understands the duties of farm life as well as a farmer himself, would suit me infinitely better?”