Tess of the d'Urbervilles quotes - Setting and Atmosphere

a4

'For the most part untrodden'
'droughts of summer'
'fertile'
'never brown and the springs never dry'
'lanes are white'
'the atmosphere colourless'
'upon a smaller more delicate scale'

a5

'Everything on this snug property was bright and thriving and well-kept'
'Everything looked like money - like the last coin issued from the Mint.'

a6

'It was always beautiful from here; it was terribly beautiful to Tess today'

a7

'Amid the oozing fatness and warm ferments of the Froom Vale, at a season when the rush of juices could almost be heard below the hiss of fertilisation, it was impossible that the most fanciful love should not grow passionate. The ready bosoms existing there were impregnated by their surroundings'

a8

'The stubborn soil around her showed plainly enough that the kind of labour in demand here was of the roughest kind.'

a9

'The dead silence within was broken only by a regular beat.
Drip, drip drip.'

a10

'The city of Wintoncester, that fine old city, aforetime capital of Wessex, lay amidst its convex and concave downlands in all the brightness and warmth of a July morning.'