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Douglas Henshall in The Story of The Novel

Eyes almost as deep and speaking he had seen before, and cheeks perhaps as fair; brows as arched, a chin and throat almost as shapely; her mouth he had seen nothing to equal on the face of the earth.

To a young man with the least fire in him that little upward lift in the middle of her red top lip was distracting, infatuating, maddening.

Quotes from Tess of The D'Urbervilles chapter 24