Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 2730
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He clenched his lips, mortified with himself for his weakness. His eyes were equally barren of worldly and religious faith. The corpses of those old fitful passions which had lain inanimate amid the lines of his face ever since his reformation seemed to wake and come together as in a resurrection. He went out indeterminately.