Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 140
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She might have stayed even later, but the incident of her father’s odd appearance and manner returned upon the girl’s mind to make her anxious, and wondering what had become of him she dropped away from the dancers and bent her steps towards the end of the village at which the parental cottage lay.