Tess Durbeyfield Flashcards
(12 cards)
“mobile peony mouth
and large innocent eyes”
“she wore a red ribbon
in her hair and was the only one of the white company who could boast of such a pronounced adornment”
“she regarded herself
in the light of a murderess”
“Tess Durbeyfield did not divine,
as she innocently looked own at the roses in her bosom, that there behind the blue narcotic haze was potentially the ‘tragic mischief’ of her drama”
“an immeasureable
social chasm was to divide our heroine’s personality hereafter”
“A particularly fine spring came around
and the stir of germination was almost audible in the buds; it moved her, as it moved the wild animals, and made her passionate to go”
“she was expressing in her own native phrases…
feelings which might have been called those of the age - the ache of modernism”
“she you love is not
my real self, but one in my image; the one I might have been”
“he saw the red
interior of her mouth as if it had been a snake’s”
At Talbothays, Angel
“her hands, which, once rosy,
were now white and more delicate”
Angel seeing Tess at Sandbourne
“Tess flung herself
upon an oblong slab”
“‘Justice’ was done,
and the President of the Immortals had ended his sport with Tess”
