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“Sir John d’Urberville—that’s who I am,” continued the prostrate man. “That is if knights were baronets—which they be. ’Tis recorded in history all about me." A parson refers to John as "Sir John", which confuses him as he does not have any titles. The parson explains that as he was looking through the town ancestry, the Durbeyfields came from the D'Urbervilles, a very wealthy and powerful family a long time ago.
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“I am inclined to go and have a fling with them. Why not all of us—just for a minute or two—it will not detain us long?” Angel Clare walks by a May Day festival where Tess and other village girls are dancing. His brothers want to keep going, but Angel stops to dance with one. As he leaves, he regrets not dancing with Tess.
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"The lantern hanging at her waggon had gone out, but another was shining in her face—much brighter than her own had been. Something terrible had happened. The harness was entangled with an object which blocked the way." While on a trip to deliver things to the next town that her father was not up for from the previous night, Tess falls asleep at the wheel and discovers that she's killed their horse.
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"“I fancy it is in your mind, mother. But I’ll go.”" Tess's mother, Joan, hopes to send Tess to the D'Urberville residence in hopes she'll marry into their money. Tess, feeling guilty for killing the horse and their biggest tool for income, goes willingly.
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“They say—Mrs d’Urberville says—that she wants you to look after a little fowl-farm which is her hobby. But this is only her artful way of getting ’ee there without raising your hopes. She’s going to own ’ee as kin—that’s the meaning o’t.” "Mrs. D'Urberville" invites Tess to work as a hand and help her care for her birds. Tess finds that Mrs. D'Urberville doesn't have a care, but Alec wants Tess around and invites her under his mother's name.
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“I’ll leave you to-morrow, sir.”...
"He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers. She was sleeping soundly, and upon her eyelashes there lingered tears." As Tess starts walking home, Alec finds her and tells her that he's going to give her a ride on his horse. Tess obliges, but Alec intentionally goes off the path to Chase. While he looks for where they are, Tess falls asleep. While she is, he rapes her before they go back. -
"“Why did you slip away by stealth like this?” said d’Urberville, with upbraiding breathlessness; “on a Sunday morning, too, when people were all in bed! I only discovered it by accident, and I have been driving like the deuce to overtake you." While Tess is trying to leave without making a fuss and having Alec convince her otherwise, Alec leaves to go find her. He tells her that he's going to take her home and Tess lets him. She is depressed and indifferent towards life.
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"The luminary was a golden-haired, beaming, mild-eyed, God-like creature, gazing down in the vigour and intentness of youth upon an earth that was brimming with interest for him." Tess's son, who she later names Sorrow right before he dies, is Alec's child. And assumably was born in June.
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"“SORROW, I baptize thee in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” Tess, while her son was born in what she considers to be poor circumstances, still loves her child. She fears that without being baptized and christened, her son cannot have a proper Christian burial. Since he is ill, Tess is scared he won't have the time to make it so she does the ordinances herself. Even with this, the parson cannot give Sorrow a proper Christian burial.
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"Almost at a leap Tess thus changed from simple girl to complex woman. Symbols of reflectiveness passed into her face, and a note of tragedy at times into her voice. Her eyes grew larger and more eloquent." While Tess is at Marlott, she withdraws from society. She often stays in her room and only leaves at night when no one is out. She wishes she weren't born, she sees life as pure misery. Tess wants to leave the situation she's in.
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"On a thyme-scented, bird-hatching morning in May, between two and three years after the return from Trantridge—silent, reconstructive years for Tess Durbeyfield—she left her home for the second time." Because Tess knows she cannot be happy in the situation or place she is in, she leaves to be a dairymaid. She hopes to abandon what she knows and start anew.
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“I’ll begin milking now, to get my hand in,” said Tess. Tess is very eager to start work and takes her new situation head-on. She gets the chance to rebuild herself the way she wants to.