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"Never mind that now!" she exclaimed. "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."
Take, e.g., a passage like this from Thomas Hardy's powerful but sombre story, Tess: "Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?" "Yes." "All like ours?" "I don't know; but I think so. They sometimes seem to me 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."
Here people stood to smoke and consider things in muddy weather; and cats slept on the clean surfaces when it was hot. In the large stubbard-tree at the corner of the garden was erected a pole of larch fir, which the miller had bought with others at a sale of small timber in Damer's Wood one Christmas week.
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