1 "Take it gentle, sir; take it gentle," said the dairyman.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVII 2 "Because there bain't so many of 'em," said the dairyman.'
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVII 3 "Oh yes; there's nothing like a fiddle," said the dairyman.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVII 4 The dairyman removed his hard gaze from Tess, and fixed it on his wife.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVIII 5 She could not understand why he should be addressed as "sir" even by the dairyman himself.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVII 6 Tess, who had given ear to this, thought the words were addressed to the dairyman, but she was wrong.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVII 7 Sitting down as a level member of the dairyman's household seemed at the outset an undignified proceeding.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVIII 8 The general attention being drawn to her, including that of the dairyman's pupil, Tess flushed, and remarking evasively that it was only a fancy, resumed her breakfast.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVIII 9 He did not milk cows because he was obliged to milk cows, but because he was learning to be a rich and prosperous dairyman, landowner, agriculturist, and breeder of cattle.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XIX 10 Knowing, however, the dairyman's wish, she endeavoured conscientiously to take the animals just as they came, excepting the very hard yielders which she could not yet manage.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XIX 11 Tess's attention was thus attracted to the dairyman's interlocutor, of whom she could see but the merest patch, owing to his burying his head so persistently in the flank of the milcher.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVII 12 The dairyman's pupil had lent a hand in getting the cows together of late, and at the fifth or sixth time she turned her eyes, as she rested against the cow, full of sly inquiry upon him.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XIX 13 So we find Angel Clare at six-and-twenty here at Talbothays as a student of kine, and, as there were no houses near at hand in which he could get a comfortable lodging, a boarder at the dairyman's.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVIII 14 The maids' private aims, however, were the reverse of the dairyman's rule, the daily selection by each damsel of the eight or ten cows to which she had grown accustomed rendering the operation on their willing udders surprisingly easy and effortless.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XIX 15 But, before venturing to make the revelation, dubious Tess indirectly sounded the dairyman as to its possible effect upon Mr Clare, by asking the former if Mr Clare had any great respect for old county families when they had lost all their money and land.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XIX 16 To my thinking," said the dairyman, rising suddenly from a cow he had just finished off, snatching up his three-legged stool in one hand and the pail in the other, and moving on to the next hard-yielder in his vicinity, "to my thinking, the cows don't gie down their milk to-day as usual.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 3 The Rally: XVII 17 But he soon preferred to read human nature by taking his meals downstairs in the general dining-kitchen, with the dairyman and his wife, and the maids and men, who all together formed a lively assembly; for though but few milking hands slept in the house, several joined the family at meals.
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