Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 1945
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Clare was relieved at this change, for the effect on her of what had happened was beginning to be a trouble to him only less than the woe of the disclosure itself. He waited patiently, apathetically, till the violence of her grief had worn itself out, and her rush of weeping had lessened to a catching gasp at intervals.