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  • That Sue was not as she had been, but was labelled "Phillotson," paralyzed Jude whenever he wanted to commune with her as an individual.

    Jude the Obscure 1896

  • That Sue was not as she had been, but was labelled "Phillotson," paralyzed Jude whenever he wanted to commune with her as an individual.

    Jude the Obscure 1894

  • Although Phillotson had never spoken to one of these gentlemen they now nobly led the forlorn hope in his defence.

    Jude the Obscure 1896

  • When Phillotson saw the blood running down the rector's face he deplored almost in groans the untoward and degrading circumstances, regretted that he had not resigned when called upon, and went home so ill that next morning he could not leave his bed.

    Jude the Obscure 1896

  • Phillotson did not speak; the door was hesitatingly opened, and there entered -- Sue.

    Jude the Obscure 1896

  • Gillingham looked at him, and wondered whether it would ever happen that the reactionary spirit induced by the world's sneers and his own physical wishes would make Phillotson more orthodoxly cruel to her than he had erstwhile been informally and perversely kind.

    Jude the Obscure 1896

  • "She doesn't care anything about me!" said Phillotson.

    Jude the Obscure 1896

  • The day after this visit Phillotson received a letter from Jude, containing the information that he had again consulted his cousin, who took more and more warmly to the idea of tuition; and that she had agreed to come.

    Jude the Obscure 1896

  • Phillotson was perhaps twenty years her senior, but many a happy marriage had been made in such conditions of age.

    Jude the Obscure 1896

  • This generous phalanx of supporters, and a few others of independent judgment, whose own domestic experiences had been not without vicissitude, came up and warmly shook hands with Phillotson; after which they expressed their thoughts so strongly to the meeting that issue was joined, the result being a general scuffle, wherein a black board was split, three panes of the school windows were broken, an inkbottle was spilled over a town-councillor's shirt front,

    Jude the Obscure 1896

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