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The haggling1 business, which had mainly depended on the horse, became disorganized forthwith. Distress3, if not penury4, loomed5 in the distance. Durbeyfield was what was locally called a slack-twisted fellow; he had good strength to work at times; but the times could not be relied on to coincide with the hours of requirement; and, having been unaccustomed to the regular toil6 of the day labourer, he was not particularly persistent7 when they did so coincide.
Tess, meanwhile, as the one who had dragged her parents into this quagmire8, was silently wondering what she could do to help them out of it; and then her mother broached9 her scheme.
`We must take the ups with the downs, Tess,' said she; `and never could your high blood have been found out at a more called for moment. You must try your friends. Do ye know that there is a very rich Mrs d'Urberville living on the outskirts10 o' The Chase, who must be our relation? You must go to her and claim kin11, and ask for some help in our trouble.'
`I shouldn't care to do that,' says Tess. `If there is such a lady, `would be enough for us if she were friendly - not to expect her to give us help.'
`You could win her round to do anything, my dear. Besides, perhaps there's more in it than you know of. I've heard what I've heard, good now.'
The oppressive sense of the harm she had done led Tess to be more deferential12 than she might otherwise have been to the

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mansion
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grumbling
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crook
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gravel
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annexed
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