Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented — Chapter I • Paragraph 888
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She had no admiration for them now; she almost hated them for the dance they had led her; not a thing of all that had been theirs did she retain but the old seal and spoon. “Pooh—I have as much of mother as father in me!” she said. “All my prettiness comes from her, and she was only a dairymaid.”