Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 2380
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Towards the second evening she reached the irregular chalk table-land or plateau, bosomed with semi-globular tumuli—as if Cybele the Many-breasted were supinely extended there—which stretched between the valley of her birth and the valley of her love.