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1
Q

Don’t you really know, Durbeyfield, that you are …

Parson Tringham,

A

the lineal representative of the ancient and knightly family of the d’Urbervilles … ?

Phase the First, Chapter 1

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But I don’t want anybody to …

Tess Durbeyfield,

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kiss me, sir!’ … the corners of her mouth trembling in her attempts not to cry.

Phase the First, Chapter 8

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I was born bad, and I have lived bad, and I shall …

Alec d’Urberville,

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die bad in all probability. But… I won’t be bad towards you again, Tess.

Phase the Second, Chapter 12

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Why didn’t you tell me there was …

Tess Durbeyfield,

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danger in men-folk? Why didn’t you warn me?

Phase the Second, Chapter 12

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Suppose your sin was not …

Tess Durbeyfield,

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of your own seeking?

Phase the Second, Chapter 13

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The baby’s offence against society in coming into the world was…

Narrator,

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forgotten by the girl-mother; her soul’s desire was to continue that offence by preserving the life of the child.

Phase the Second, Chapter 14

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Q

‘Was once lost always lost…

Tess Durbeyfield,

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really true of chastity?’

Phase the Second, Chapter 15

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All the while they were converging, under an …

Narrator,

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irresistible law, as surely as two streams in one vale.

Phase the Third, Chapter 20

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Q

It is that this sound of a non-existent coach can only be heard by one of …

Alec d’Urberville,

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d’Urberville blood, and it is held to be of ill-omen to the one who hears it. It has to do with a murder, committed by one of the family, centuries ago.

Phase the Fourth, Chapter 33

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You were more sinned …

Angel Clare,

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against than sinning, that I admit.

Phase the Fifth, Chapter 35

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Q

How can we live together while that man …

Angel Clare,

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lives?—he being your husband in nature, and not I. If he were dead it might be different.

Phase the Fifth, Chapter 36

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O, will you go away—for the sake of …

Tess Durbeyfield,

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me and my husband—go, in the name of your own Christianity!

Phase the Sixth, Chapter 46

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The oblong white ceiling, with this scarlet blot in the midst…

Narrator,

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had the appearance of a gigantic ace of hearts.

Phase the Sixth, Chapter 51

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Never in her life…

Narrator

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had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come.

, Phase the Seventh, Chapter 57

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I do love you…

Angel Clare,

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, Tess—O, I do—it is all come back!

Phase the Seventh, Chapter 57

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