Tess shrank into herself as if she had been struck. Often enough had he tried to reach those lips against her consent — often had he said gaily that … - Thomas Hardy

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Tess shrank into herself as if she had been struck. Often enough had he tried to reach those lips against her consent — often had he said gaily that her mouth and breath tasted of the butter and eggs and milk and honey on which she mainly lived, that he drew sustenance from them, and other follies of that sort. But he did not care for them now.