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Quotation from Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

““Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Æschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess.”

Thomas Hardy (spoken by Narrator)

Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Phase the Seventh, Chapter LIX

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The narrator's comment as the black flag signals Tess's execution, one of the most famous and debated sentences in Hardy.

Citation: "“Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Æschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess." — Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Phase the Seventh, Chapter LIX. (id tess-of-the-durbervilles-q2)

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