Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 1785
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Clare knew that she loved him—every curve of her form showed that—but he did not know at that time the full depth of her devotion, its single-mindedness, its meekness; what long-suffering it guaranteed, what honesty, what endurance, what good faith.