Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 2697
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“The fact is,” said d’Urberville drily, “whatever your dear husband believed you accept, and whatever he rejected you reject, without the least inquiry or reasoning on your own part. That’s just like you women. Your mind is enslaved to his.”