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1  "I am sorry for the rain," said he.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
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2  The rain was over and the night was now clear.
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3  There came a moisture which was not of rain, and a cold which was not of frost.
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4  The rain had nearly ceased, and she opened the casement in obedience to his gesture.
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5  In the afternoon the rain came on again, and Marian said that they need not work any more.
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6  The cans of new milk were unladen in the rain, Tess getting a little shelter from a neighbouring holly tree.
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7  Here the air was dry and cold, and the long cart-roads were blown white and dusty within a few hours after rain.
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8  On the evening preceding their removal it was getting dark betimes by reason of a drizzling rain which blurred the sky.
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9  The cow and horse tracks in the road were full of water, the rain having been enough to charge them, but not enough to wash them away.
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10  For thy life shall fall as a leaf and be shed as the rain; And the veil of thine head shall be grief, and the crown shall be pain.
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11  So they drove on through the gloom, forming one bundle inside the sail-cloth, the horse going as he would, and the rain driving against them.
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12  The dull sky soon began to tell its meaning by sending down herald-drops of rain, and the stagnant air of the day changed into a fitful breeze which played about their faces.
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13  It was a relief to Tess, when she looked out of the window that morning, to find that though the weather was windy and louring, it did not rain, and that the waggon had come.
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14  It was so high a situation, this field, that the rain had no occasion to fall, but raced along horizontally upon the yelling wind, sticking into them like glass splinters till they were wet through.
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15  The stubborn soil around her showed plainly enough that the kind of labour in demand here was of the roughest kind; but it was time to rest from searching, and she resolved to stay, particularly as it began to rain.
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16  The crooked lane leading from their own parish to Mellstock ran along the lowest levels in a portion of its length, and when the girls reached the most depressed spot they found that the result of the rain had been to flood the lane over-shoe to a distance of some fifty yards.
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17  Angel, suddenly recollecting that Tess was overhearing this gloomy tale, went to shut the door between the passage and the ante-room to the inner parlour where she was; but his wife, flinging a shawl round her, had come to the outer room and was listening to the man's narrative, her eyes resting absently on the luggage and the drops of rain glistening upon it.
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