About Marlott:
- ‘for the most part untrodden as yet by tourist or landscape painter, though within a four hours’ journey from London’ Page 12
- ‘This fertile and sheltered tract of country, in which the fields are never brown and the springs never dry’ Page 12
- The forests have departed, but some old customs of their shades remain’ Page 13
- ‘built for enjoyment pure and simple’ Page 38
- ‘a little fancy farm kept in hand’ Page 38
- ‘The Chase – a truly venerable tract of forest land, one of the few remaining woodlands in England of undoubted primaeval date, wherein Druidical mistletoe was still found on aged oaks, and where enormous yew-trees, not planted by the hand of man, grew’ Page 38
- ‘the verdant plain’ Page 102
- ‘The green lea was speckled as thickly with them as a canvas by Van Alsloot or Sallaert with burghers’ page 102
- ‘more cheering’ [than Blackmoor] page 103
- ‘the new air was clear, bracing, ethereal’ page 103
- ‘their large-veined udders hung ponderous as sandbags, the teats sticking out like the legs of a gipsy’s crock; and as each animal lingered for her turn to arrive the milk oozed forth and fell in drops to the ground’ page 106
About Flincombe-Ash:
- ‘a starve-acre place’ page 284
- ‘every leaf of the vegetable having already been consumed’ page 285
- ‘the two girls crawling over the surface of the former like flies’ page 285
- ‘sticking into them like glass splinters till they were wet through’ [the rain] 286
- ‘Tess slaved in the morning frosts and in the afternoon rains’ page 287
- ‘Fashionable’ page 375
- ‘like a fairy place suddenly created by the stroke of a wand, and allowed to get a little dusty’ page 375
- ‘a glittering novelty’ page 375
- ‘pleasure city’ page 376
- ‘Were there any cows to milk here? There certainly were no fields to till’ page 376
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