Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 3254
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The night was strangely solemn and still. In the small hours she whispered to him the whole story of how he had walked in his sleep with her in his arms across the Froom stream, at the imminent risk of both their lives, and laid her down in the stone coffin at the ruined abbey. He had never known of that till now.