Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 1919
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“Am I to believe this? From your manner I am to take it as true. O you cannot be out of your mind! You ought to be! Yet you are not... My wife, my Tess—nothing in you warrants such a supposition as that?”