Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 182
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’Liza-Lu then went to bed, and Tess, locking them all in, started on her way up the dark and crooked lane or street not made for hasty progress; a street laid out before inches of land had value, and when one-handed clocks sufficiently subdivided the day.