“ Do you know that I have undergone three-quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter? ”
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891). copy citation
| Author | Thomas Hardy |
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| Source | Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| Topic | labour |
| Date | 1891 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/110/110-h/110-h.htm |
Context
“You should lift Marian! Such a lump. You are like an undulating billow warmed by the sun. And all this fluff of muslin about you is the froth.»
«It is very pretty—if I seem like that to you.»
«Do you know that I have undergone three-quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?»
«No.»
«I did not expect such an event to-day.»
«Nor I… The water came up so sudden.»
That the rise in the water was what she understood him to refer to, the state of breathing belied.” source
«It is very pretty—if I seem like that to you.»
«Do you know that I have undergone three-quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?»
«No.»
«I did not expect such an event to-day.»
«Nor I… The water came up so sudden.»
That the rise in the water was what she understood him to refer to, the state of breathing belied.” source
