Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 2186
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When at length the collapse was explained to him, a sullen mortification, not usual with Durbeyfield, overpowered the influence of the cheering glass. Yet the intrinsic quality of the event moved his touchy sensitiveness less than its conjectured effect upon the minds of others.