“You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.”

—  Thomas Hardy

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

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English novelist and poet 1840–1928

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