Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 1760
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What she meant was not very clear, and he directed her to dismiss such fancies from her mind, which she obediently did as well as she could. But she was grave, very grave, all the way home; till she thought, “We shall go away, a very long distance, hundreds of miles from these parts, and such as this can never happen again, and no ghost of the past reach there.”