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Having mounted beside her, Alec d'Urberville drove rapidly along the crest of the first hill, chatting compliments to Tess as they went, the cart with her box being left far behind. Rising still, an immense landscape stretched around them on every side; behind, the green valley of her birth; before, a grey country of which she knew nothing except from her first brief visit to Trantridge. Thus they reached the verge of an incline down which the road stretched in a long straight descent of nearly a mile. 去书内
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  • LonelyMonkey LonelyMonkey

    The most potent element is the description of the road itself: they reach a slope leading to a "long straight descent of nearly a mile." This is not just a physical path but a powerful symbol of Tess's tragic fate—the "long descent" directly prefigures her inevitable downfall and life's subsequent decline. At this moment, Tess is poised on the "verge," about to embark on an irreversible decline, underscoring the novel's themes of inevitability and Hardy's pessimistic worldview. This journey is a definitive turning point in the novel's plot.

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