1 Her mother put on a deprecating look.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 2 Tess took it up, and her mother started.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 3 She knew what her mother's objection meant.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 4 Her mother's fetching simply meant one more to fetch.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 5 It grew later, and neither father nor mother reappeared.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 6 "I'll rock the cradle for 'ee, mother," said the daughter gently.'
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 7 "Well, I'm glad you've come," her mother said, as soon as the last note had passed out of her.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 8 Her mother gave irrelevant information by way of answer: "He called to see the doctor to-day in Shaston."
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 9 No ditty floated into Blackmoor Vale from the outer world but Tess's mother caught up its notation in a week.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 10 Returning along the garden path Tess mused on what the mother could have wished to ascertain from the book on this particular day.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 11 Her rebuke and her mood seemed to fill the whole room, and to impart a cowed look to the furniture, and candle, and children playing about, and to her mother's face.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 12 There stood her mother amid the group of children, as Tess had left her, hanging over the Monday washing-tub, which had now, as always, lingered on to the end of the week.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 13 A curious fetishistic fear of this grimy volume on the part of her mother prevented her ever allowing it to stay in the house all night, and hither it was brought back whenever it had been consulted.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 14 There still faintly beamed from the woman's features something of the freshness, and even the prettiness, of her youth; rendering it probable that the personal charms which Tess could boast of were in main part her mother's gift, and therefore unknightly, unhistorical.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 15 Between the mother, with her fast-perishing lumber of superstitions, folk-lore, dialect, and orally transmitted ballads, and the daughter, with her trained National teachings and Standard knowledge under an infinitely Revised Code, there was a gap of two hundred years as ordinarily understood.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 16 Her mother bore Tess no ill-will for leaving the housework to her single-handed efforts for so long; indeed, Joan seldom upbraided her thereon at any time, feeling but slightly the lack of Tess's assistance whilst her instinctive plan for relieving herself of her labours lay in postponing them.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 1 The Maiden: III 17 Even to her mother's gaze the girl's young features looked sadly out of place amid the alcoholic vapours which floated here as no unsuitable medium for wrinkled middle-age; and hardly was a reproachful flash from Tess's dark eyes needed to make her father and mother rise from their seats, hastily finish their ale, and descend the stairs behind her, Mrs Rolliver's caution following their footsteps.
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