Johannes Vermeer Girl with a Pearl Earring Painting

a piece of parchment from his pocket, with a slight fumbling of embarrassment. ¡¡¡¡`What is it?' said she. ¡¡¡¡`A marriage licence.' ¡¡¡¡`O no, sir - no!' she said quickly, starting back. ¡¡¡¡`You will not? Why is that?' ¡¡¡¡And as he asked the question a disappointment which was not entirely the disappointment of thwarted duty crossed d'Urberville face. It was unmistakably a symptom that something of his old passion for her had been revived; duty and desire ran hand-in-hand. ¡¡¡¡`Surely,' he began again, in more impetuous tones, and then looked round at the labourer who turned the slicer. ¡¡¡¡Tess, too, felt that the argument could not be ended there. Informing the man that a gentleman had come to see her, with whom she wished to walk a little way, she moved off with d'Urberville across the zebra-striped field. When they reached the first newly-sloughed section he held out his hand to help her over it; but she stepped forward on the summits of the earth-rolls as if she did not see him.