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...Excerpt: Phase the First; The Maiden -- I -- On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inc...

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...Tess of the d’Urbervilles THOMAS HARDY 1891 Based on the Wessex Edition of 1912 Contents Phase the First — The Maiden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... Maiden 1 Phase the First — The Maiden I O n an evening in the latter part of May a middle aged man was walking home ward from Shaston to the village... ...f May a middle aged man was walking home ward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blake more or Blackmoor. The pair of ... ...ace than the original bald stark words. Conning for an hour in the British Museum the pages of works devoted to extinct, half extinct, obscured, and r... ...ssly blowing and blowing, wondering how she could have so grown out of the art which had come by nature, till she became aware of a movement among the... ...des had bred in him an unconquerable, and almost unreasonable, aversion to modern town life, and shut him out from such success as he might have aspir... ...eelings which might almost have been called those of the age — the ache of modernism. The perception arrested him less when he reflected that what are ... ...ed far better for mankind if Greece had been the source of the religion of modern civilization, and not Palestine; and his father’s grief was of that ... ...tness of Italian art, but in the staring and ghastly attitudes of a Wiertz Museum, and with the leer of a study by Van Beers. His conduct during these...

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...ew hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implement...

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...Table of Contents: CHAPTER 1, 1 -- CHAPTER 2, 10 -- CHAPTER 3, 15 -- CHAPTER 4, 22 -- CHAPTER 5, 28 -- CHAPTER 6, 38 -- CHAPTER 7, 46 -- CHAPTER 8, 54 -- CHAPTER 9, 60 -- CHAPTER 10, 66 -- CHAPTER 11, 77 -- CHAPTER 12, 83 -- CHAPTE...

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...wn as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itse... ... history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English cou... ...wn of an old English country house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much... ...ord, and it was his own fault if he had placed in his son’s hands the key to modern criticism. Ralph, whose head was full of ideas which his father ha... ...of course that it should be a noble picture. Within, it had been a good deal modernized—some of its best points had lost their purity; but as they saw... ...ch was so much: she saw the different fitted parts of him as she had seen, in museums and portraits, the different fitted parts of armoured warriors—in ... ...and go afterwards to the play; they would frequent the Abbey and the British Museum and find out where Doctor Johnson had lived, and Gold smith and Ad... ... unable to accept or to refute. The party went more than once to the British Museum and to that brighter palace of art which reclaims for an tique va... ...the not quite exhausted storehouse. These things kept terms with articles of modern furniture in which large allowance had been made for a lounging ge...

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...e Lamb the Wolf?s right to eat him. He thus addressed him: ?Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me.? ?Indeed,? bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, ?I was not then born.? Then said the Wolf, ?You feed in my pasture.? ?No, good sir,? replied the Lamb, ?I have not yet tasted grass.?...

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..................8 THE BOY HUNTING LOCUSTS ..................................8 THE COCK AND THE JEWEL ....................................8 THE KINGDOM OF THE LION ...................................9 THE WOLF AND THE CRANE ...................................9 THE FISHERMAN PIPING .......................................10 HERCULES AND THE WAGONER ...............................

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