![]() When Tess arrives at home, she learns that her father is at the tavern celebrating the news of his esteemed family connections. Angel does not dance with Tess, but takes note of her as the most striking of the girls. During this celebration, Tess happens to meet three brothers: Felix, Cuthbert and Angel Clare. Durbeyfield arrives at home during the May Day dance, in which his daughter Tess dances. Although Parson Tringham mentions this only to note how the mighty have fallen, John Durbeyfield rejoices over the news. ![]() The parson addresses the impoverished Durbeyfield as "Sir John," and remarks that he has just learned that the Durbeyfields are descended from the d'Urbervilles, a family once renowned in England. ![]() Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles begins with the chance meeting between Parson Tringham and John Durbeyfield. ![]()
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