| The sub-title: "A Pure Woman" |
Section One: "The Maiden" |
| "Phases of her childhood lurked in her aspect still".
For more see P.52. |
" the self-reproach which she continued to heap upon herself
for her negligence." P. 72 |
| "Nobody blamed Tess as she blamed herself"
P. 73 |
'her mobile peony mouth and large innocent eyes added
eloquence to colour and shape." P. 12 |
| "She looked upon herself as a figure of guilt intruding
into the haunts of innocence." P. 135 |
"Every see-saw of her breath, every wave of her blood,
every pulse singing in her ears, was a voice that joined with
nature in revolt against her scrupulousness." P. 241. |
| 'The pouted-out deep red mouth..." P.13 |
"her bouncing handsome womanliness" P.13 |
| "her freshness" P.14 |
"She was so modest, so expressive, she had looked so
soft in her thin white gown..." P.17 |
| It "was a sorry and mistaken creation of Tess's fancy - a cloud
of moral hobgoblins by which she was terrified without reason."
P.108 |
"Her figure looked singularly tall and imposing as she
stood in her long white nightgown, a thick gable of twisted dark
hair hanging straight down her back..." P.119 |
| her face " a thing of immaculate beauty, with a touch
of dignity which was almost regal" P.119 (Also see context
of quote) |
At Talbothays "she felt akin to the landscape.."
p.132 |
| "Tess was trying to lead a repressed life..." P.161 |
"her mouth he had seen nothing to equal on the face of the earth..."
P 192 |
| 'she was such a sheaf of susceptibilities..." P.227 |
"There was hardly a touch of earth in her love for Clare."
P.246 |