ANGEL CLARE in Classic Quotes

1  At first Tess seemed to regard Angel Clare as an intelligence rather than as a man.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3 The Rally: XIX

2  Angel Clare, who communistically stuck to his rule of taking part with the rest in everything, glanced up now and then.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3 The Rally: XXII

3  So we find Angel Clare at six-and-twenty here at Talbothays as a student of kine, and, as there were no houses near at hand in which he could get a comfortable lodging, a boarder at the dairyman's.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3 The Rally: XVIII

4  Being more finely formed, better educated, and, though the youngest except Retty, more woman than either, she perceived that only the slightest ordinary care was necessary for holding her own in Angel Clare's heart against these her candid friends.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3 The Rally: XXI

5  Angel Clare rises out of the past not altogether as a distinct figure, but as an appreciative voice, a long regard of fixed, abstracted eyes, and a mobility of mouth somewhat too small and delicately lined for a man's, though with an unexpectedly firm close of the lower lip now and then; enough to do away with any inference of indecision.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3 The Rally: XVIII

6  The early mornings were still sufficiently cool to render a fire acceptable in the large room wherein they breakfasted; and, by Mrs Crick's orders, who held that he was too genteel to mess at their table, it was Angel Clare's custom to sit in the yawning chimney-corner during the meal, his cup-and-saucer and plate being placed on a hinged flap at his elbow.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3 The Rally: XVIII