Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 2842
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Despite her not inviolate past, what still abode in such a woman as Tess outvalued the freshness of her fellows. Was not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi-ezer?