“ But considering what my life has been, I cannot see why any man should, sooner or later, be able to help despising me.... ”
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891). copy citation
| Author | Thomas Hardy |
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| Source | Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| Topic | life help |
| Date | 1891 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/110/110-h/110-h.htm |
Context
“I would rather not. I would rather be dead and buried when the time comes for you to despise me, so that it may never be known to me that you despised me. ” “ I cannot ever despise you. ” “ I also hope that. But considering what my life has been, I cannot see why any man should, sooner or later, be able to help despising me.... How wickedly mad I was! Yet formerly I never could bear to hurt a fly or a worm, and the sight of a bird in a cage used often to make me cry. ” In the night the dull sky cleared, and the result was that the old caretaker at the cottage awoke early.”
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