Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 2567
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Thus speaking she turned from the stile over which she had been leaning, and faced him; whereupon his eyes, falling casually upon the familiar countenance and form, remained contemplating her. The inferior man was quiet in him now; but it was surely not extracted, nor even entirely subdued.