He was surprised to find that this dairymaid had such sad thoughts. She
was expressing in her own words the ache of modern life. This sadness
made her more interesting to him. He did not know that her experience
had given her great strength of feeling. Tess, on the other hand, could
not understand why a man of religious family, good education and
financial independence should feel sorry to be alive. How could this
admirable and poetic man have felt, as she did two or three years ago,
that he would rather die? It was true that he was not at present living
among gentlemen. But he was studying what he wanted to know, and would
become a rich farmer in time. So, as they neither understood each
other's secrets, they were both puzzled and waited to find out more.
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