Chapter 9
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- Created on: 29-09-15 14:40
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- Chapter 9
- What does Hardy reveal about the relationship between Alec and Tess in this chapter
- Alec
- Tess
- 'It was Alec d'Urberville,
- 'whom she had not set eyes on'
- since he had conducted her the day before to the door of the garderners cottage where she had lodgings'
- 'there was never before such a beautiful thing in Nature or Art as you look'
- '["Cousin" had a faint ring of mockery]'
- 'I may be cross, but I didn't swear'
- 'Oh no you won't' said Tess, withdrawing towards the door'
- 'I'll give you a lesson or two'
- 'I have been watching you over the wall'
- 'and pouting that pretty red mouth'
- 'Nonsense; I don't want to touch you'
- 'The momentary pleasure of success got the better of her; her eyes enlarged, and she involuntarily smiled in his face'
- 'Her first day's experiences were fairly typical of those which followed through many succeeding days'
- 'removed much of her shyness of him'
- 'without, however, implanting any feeling which could engender shyness of a new and tenderer kind'
- 'But she was more pliable under his hands than a mere companionship would have made her'
- Tess at the Slopes
- What does Hardy reveal about the relationship between Alec and Tess in this chapter
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