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Summary of Tess
Phase the Fifth
Angel, However, Is Appalled By Tess's Confession .Tess, Although Devastated ,
Accepts The Sudden Estrangeme nt As Something She Deserves. After A Few
Awkward, Awful Days, She Suggests That They Separate, Telling Her Husband
That She Will Return To Her Parents. Angel Gives Her Some Money And
Promises To Try To Reconcile Himself To Her Past, But Warns Her Not To Try To
Join Him Until He Sends For Her. After A Quick Visit To His Parents, Angel Takes
Ship For Brazil To Start A New Life. Before He Leaves, He Encounters Izz Huett
On The Road And Impulsivel y Asks Her To Come To Brazil With Him, As His
Mistress. She Accepts, But When He Asks Her How Much She Loves Him, She
Admits "Nobod y Could Love you More Than Tess Did! She Would Have Laid Down
Her Life For you . I Could Do No More!" Hearing This, He Abandons The Whim,And
Izz Goes Home Weeping Bitterly.
A Very Bleak Period In Tess's Life Begins. She Returns Home For A Time But,
Finding This Unbearable , Decides To Join Marian And Izz At A Starve-Acre Farm
Called Flintcombe-Ash. On The Road, She Is Recognised And Insulted By A
Farmer Named Groby (The Same Man Who Slighted Her In Front Of Angel); This
Man Proves To Be Her New Employer. At The Farm, The Three Former Milkmaids
Perform Very Hard Physical Labour.
One Day, Tess Attempts To Visit Angel's Family At The Parsonage In Emminster.
As She Nears Her Destinatio n, She Encounters Angel's Priggish Older Brothers
And The Woman His Parents Once Hoped He Would Marry, Mercy Chant. They
Do Not Recognise Her, But She Overhears Them Discussing Angel's Unwise
Marriage. Shamed, She Turns Back. On The Way, She Overhears A Wandering
Preacher And Is Shocked To Discover That He Is Alec D'Urbervil le, Who Has
Been Converted To Christiani ty Under The Reverend James Clare's
Influence
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