Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 578
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She did not abhor dancing, but she was not going to dance here. The movement grew more passionate: the fiddlers behind the luminous pillar of cloud now and then varied the air by playing on the wrong side of the bridge or with the back of the bow. But it did not matter; the panting shapes spun onwards.