Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 670
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“I’m grateful,” she reluctantly admitted. “But I fear I do not—” The sudden vision of his passion for herself as a factor in this result so distressed her that, beginning with one slow tear, and then following with another, she wept outright.