Thomas Hardy

A Pure Woman (Works of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse, Vol 1)

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Abigail Marie

She suddenly stopped and murmured: 'But perhaps I don't quite know the Lord as Yet.'

And probably the half-unconsciouses rhapsody was a Fetichistic utterance in a Monotheistic falsetto; women whose chief companions are the forms and forces of outdoor Nature retain in their souls far more of the Pagan fantasy of their remote forefathers than of the systematized religion taught their race at a later date.

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‘[…] though, being heart-whole as yet, she enjoyed treading a measure purely for its own sake; little divining when she saw “the soft torments, the bitter sweets, the pleasing pains, and the agreeable distresses” of those girls who had been wooed and won, what she herself was capable of in that kind. The struggles and wrangles of the lads for her hand in a jig were an amusement to her—no more; and when they became fierce she rebuked them.’

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