Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 806
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The men who sat nearest considerately turned their faces towards the other end of the field, some of them beginning to smoke; one, with absent-minded fondness, regretfully stroking the jar that would no longer yield a stream. All the women but Tess fell into animated talk, and adjusted the disarranged knots of their hair.