Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 305
Stage 1 of 6

Read it through once

He had an almost swarthy complexion, with full lips, badly moulded, though red and smooth, above which was a well-groomed black moustache with curled points, though his age could not be more than three- or four-and-twenty. Despite the touches of barbarism in his contours, there was a singular force in the gentleman’s face, and in his bold rolling eye.