Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 295
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Every day seemed to throw upon her young shoulders more of the family burdens, and that Tess should be the representative of the Durbeyfields at the d’Urberville mansion came as a thing of course. In this instance it must be admitted that the Durbeyfields were putting their fairest side outward.