Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 1936
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“I thought, Angel, that you loved me—me, my very self! If it is I you do love, O how can it be that you look and speak so? It frightens me! Having begun to love you, I love you for ever—in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself. I ask no more. Then how can you, O my own husband, stop loving me?”