Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 1899
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“Happily I awoke almost immediately to a sense of my folly,” he continued. “I would have no more to say to her, and I came home. I have never repeated the offence. But I felt I should like to treat you with perfect frankness and honour, and I could not do so without telling this. Do you forgive me?”