Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 2810
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He did not accompany her further, since, as she lived with the household, all was public indoors. No sooner had she herself entered, laved herself in a washing-tub, and shared supper with the family than she fell into thought, and withdrawing to the table under the wall, by the light of her own little lamp wrote in a passionate mood—