Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 1960
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The place to which they had travelled to-day was in the same valley as Talbothays, but some miles lower down the river; and the surroundings being open, she kept easily in sight of him. Away from the house the road wound through the meads, and along these she followed Clare without any attempt to come up with him or to attract him, but with dumb and vacant fidelity.