Chapter 3
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- Created on: 22-09-15 14:22
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- Chapter 3
- Durbeyfield household
- 'to which movement a feminine voice kept time by singing, in a vigorous gallopade, the favourite ditty of 'The Spotted Cow''
- 'There stood her mother amid the group of children'
- 'The cradle-rockers had done hard duty for so many years under the weight of so many children'
- Tess's relationship with her mother
- Mrs Durbeyfield habitually spoke the dialect;
- her daughter, who had passed the Sixth Standard in the National School under a London-trained mistress
- spoke two languages: the dialect at home, more or less; ordinary English abroad and to persons of quality
- her daughter, who had passed the Sixth Standard in the National School under a London-trained mistress
- Mrs Durbeyfield habitually spoke the dialect;
- 'If the heads of the Durbyfield household chose to sail into difficulty, disaster, starvation, disease, degradation, death'
- 'thither were these half-dozen little captives under hatches compelled to sail with them'
- 'six helpless little creatures, who had never been asked if they wished for life on any terms'
- 'much less if they wished for it on such hard conditions as were involved in being of the shiftless house of Durbeyfield'
- 'six helpless little creatures, who had never been asked if they wished for life on any terms'
- 'this lent her a deputy-maternal attitude when she was alone with her juniors'
- 'thither were these half-dozen little captives under hatches compelled to sail with them'
- Durbeyfield household
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