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Thomas Hardy
· Tess of the d’Urbervilles
· Project Gutenberg
After fixedly regarding her for some moments with the same gaze of unmeasurable woe, he bent lower, enclosed her in his arms, and rolled her in the sheet as in a shroud. Then lifting her from the bed with as much respect as one would show to a dead body, he carried her across the room, murmuring— “My poor, poor Tess—my dearest, darling Tess! So sweet, so good, so true!” The words of endearment, withheld so severely i...
The man's gaze, heavy with an unmeasurable woe, arrests the moment before his tender gesture unfolds. His careful wrapping of Tess in the sheet, likened to a shroud, blurs the line between care and mourning, infusing the act with solemn reverence. The contrast...