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Updated: May 27, 2025
The village had formerly contained, side by side with the argicultural labourers, an interesting and better-informed class, ranking distinctly above the former the class to which Tess's father and mother had belonged and including the carpenter, the smith, the shoemaker, the huckster, together with nondescript workers other than farm-labourers; a set of people who owed a certain stability of aim and conduct to the fact of their being lifeholders like Tess's father, or copyholders, or occasionally, small freeholders.
In this he kept his leases, which had remained there unopened ever since his father's death. It was the usual hiding-place among rural lifeholders for such documents. Winterborne sat down on the bed and looked them over.
Families from decayed villages families of that once bulky, but now nearly extinct, section of village society called "liviers," or lifeholders copyholders and others, whose roof-trees had fallen for some reason or other, compelling them to quit the rural spot that had been their home for generations came here, unless they chose to lie under a hedge by the wayside.
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