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1  "I wish I had seen Mrs d'Urberville," said Tess.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: VI
2  Mrs d'Urberville's son had called on horseback, having been riding by chance in the direction of Marlott.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: VI
3  When d'Urberville got back to the tent he sat down astride on a chair, reflecting, with a pleased gleam in his face.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: V
4  Mr d'Urberville says you must be a good girl if you are at all as you appear; he knows you must be worth your weight in gold.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: VI
5  Her mother might have made inquiries, and have discovered that this Mrs d'Urberville was a lady of unequalled virtues and charity.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: V
6  This embodiment of a d'Urberville and a namesake differed even more from what Tess had expected than the house and grounds had differed.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: V
7  They had spent some time wandering desultorily thus, Tess eating in a half-pleased, half-reluctant state whatever d'Urberville offered her.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: V
8  She had an attribute which amounted to a disadvantage just now; and it was this that caused Alec d'Urberville's eyes to rivet themselves upon her.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: V
9  Stoke d'Urberville took her back to the lawn and into the tent, where he left her, soon reappearing with a basket of light luncheon, which he put before her himself.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: V
10  Well, perhaps that's what young Mr d'Urberville means," he admitted; "and sure enough he mid have serious thoughts about improving his blood by linking on to the old line.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: VI
11  Every day seemed to throw upon her young shoulders more of the family burdens, and that Tess should be the representative of the Durbeyfields at the d'Urberville mansion came as a thing of course.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: V
12  She had dreamed of an aged and dignified face, the sublimation of all the d'Urberville lineaments, furrowed with incarnate memories representing in hieroglyphic the centuries of her family's and England's history.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: V
13  Pedigree, ancestral skeletons, monumental record, the d'Urberville lineaments, did not help Tess in her life's battle as yet, even to the extent of attracting to her a dancing-partner over the heads of the commonest peasantry.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: II
14  She alighted from the van at Trantridge Cross, and ascended on foot a hill in the direction of the district known as The Chase, on the borders of which, as she had been informed, Mrs d'Urberville's seat, The Slopes, would be found.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: V
15  Rising early next day she walked to the hill-town called Shaston, and there took advantage of a van which twice in the week ran from Shaston eastward to Chaseborough, passing near Trantridge, the parish in which the vague and mysterious Mrs d'Urberville had her residence.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: V
16  His own investigations had begun on a day in the preceding spring when, having been engaged in tracing the vicissitudes of the d'Urberville family, he had observed Durbeyfield's name on his waggon, and had thereupon been led to make inquiries about his father and grandfather till he had no doubt on the subject.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: I
17  Parson Tringham had spoken truly when he said that our shambling John Durbeyfield was the only really lineal representative of the old d'Urberville family existing in the county, or near it; he might have added, what he knew very well, that the Stoke-d'Urbervilles were no more d'Urbervilles of the true tree then he was himself.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: V
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