Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 1878
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“And, more than this, there’s Marian; she’s been found dead drunk by the withy-bed—a girl who hev never been known to touch anything before except shilling ale; though, to be sure, ’a was always a good trencher-woman, as her face showed. It seems as if the maids had all gone out o’ their minds!”