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Thomas Hardy
· Tess of the d’Urbervilles
· Project Gutenberg
She had not turned at first, but his fixed attitude led her to look round, when she perceived that her employer was the native of Trantridge from whom she had taken flight on the high-road because of his allusion to her history. He waited till she had carried the drawn bundles to the pile outside, when he said, “So you be the young woman who took my civility in such ill part? Be drowned if I didn’t think you might be...
The woman's deliberate choice to ignore her employer initially underscores a fraught history that thickens the air between them. His rough, colloquial address, steeped in suspicion and veiled accusation, illuminates a power struggle rooted in unspoken past gri...