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Nettlecombe Tout

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Nettlecombe Tout gets a quick mention in Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles":

If Tess were made rich by marrying a gentleman, would she have money enough to buy a spy-glass so large that it would draw the stars as near to her as Nettlecombe Tout?
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"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."
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
19th September 2007ce

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