- Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?
- Yes.
- All like ours?
- I don't know; but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted.
- Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?
- A blighted one.
- 'Tis very unlucky that we didn't pitch on a sound one, when there were so many more of 'em!
- Yes.
- Is it like that really, Tess? said Abraham, turning to her much impressed, on reconsideration of this rare information. How would it have been if we had pitched on a sound one?
- Well, father wouldn't have coughed and creeped about as he does, and wouldn't have got too tipsy to go this journey; and mother wouldn't have been always washing, and never getting finished.
- And you would have been a rich lady ready-made, and not have had to be made rich by marrying a gentleman?
- O Aby, don't - don't talk of that any more!
- Yes.
- All like ours?
- I don't know; but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted.
- Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?
- A blighted one.
- 'Tis very unlucky that we didn't pitch on a sound one, when there were so many more of 'em!
- Yes.
- Is it like that really, Tess? said Abraham, turning to her much impressed, on reconsideration of this rare information. How would it have been if we had pitched on a sound one?
- Well, father wouldn't have coughed and creeped about as he does, and wouldn't have got too tipsy to go this journey; and mother wouldn't have been always washing, and never getting finished.
- And you would have been a rich lady ready-made, and not have had to be made rich by marrying a gentleman?
- O Aby, don't - don't talk of that any more!
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Tess's misery = long hours of pure delight
