Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 1624
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A spiritual forgetfulness co-existed with an intellectual remembrance. She walked in brightness, but she knew that in the background those shapes of darkness were always spread. They might be receding, or they might be approaching, one or the other, a little every day.