Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 2109
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After fixedly regarding her for some moments with the same gaze of unmeasurable woe, he bent lower, enclosed her in his arms, and rolled her in the sheet as in a shroud. Then lifting her from the bed with as much respect as one would show to a dead body, he carried her across the room, murmuring—