Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 3297
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She ceased, and he fell into thought. In the far north-east sky he could see between the pillars a level streak of light. The uniform concavity of black cloud was lifting bodily like the lid of a pot, letting in at the earth’s edge the coming day, against which the towering monoliths and trilithons began to be blackly defined.