Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 818
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But now that her moral sorrows were passing away a fresh one arose on the natural side of her which knew no social law. When she reached home it was to learn to her grief that the baby had been suddenly taken ill since the afternoon. Some such collapse had been probable, so tender and puny was its frame; but the event came as a shock nevertheless.