John gets drunk so Tess and her brother must deliver the beehives to the farmer's market. They take the family horse, Prince. While traveling to the market, Tess and Abraham both fall asleep in the wagon and Prince wanders into the incoming lane of traffic. Prince is killed when a mail cart hits him and the field wagon. Joan introduces the plan to find their rich family members so that they could gain money or work. Tess originally objects but since she feels guilty about the horse dying, she relents and goes to find the d'Urberville family.

Joan hatches the plan to send Tess off. Joan leads it to John to decide an

Tess and Marian work digging up rutabagas in rocky ground. After a time, Izz Huett joins them. They are sent to work in the barn in the winter, and Tess meets the man who owns the farm--it is the man from Alec d'Urberville's village. He accuses her of being a poor worker, and she offers to work harder to compensate. Marian tells Tess that Angel invited Izz to travel with him to Brazil, and Tess at first feels as though she should write to him; before long, however, she is overcome by doubt. Tess decides to visit Angel's family to discover what has happened to him, and begins the long walk to the vicarage. She takes off her boots, and hides them, planning to put them on again for the walk home. She overhears Angel's brothers discussing Angel's unfortunate marriage, and when they find her boots, they assume they belong to a peasant. Tess is ashamed and unhappy, and decides not to meet Angel's family after all. She begins the walk home, but she stops before a barn in which a passionate sermon is being delivered. She looks inside, and sees none other than Alec d'Urberville.

d he says that he doesn't want to see his children doing things that they don't want to do. Even with that, Tess feels bad about the death of the horse so she aggress to visit the Stroke-d'Urbervilles. When she arrives at the home called The Slopes, she is surprised at the age of the house, being that the home was not old and established as she had expected. As if that isn't enough for her, Alec, the son of Mrs. D'Urberville, immediately approaches her and takes her on a tour of the garden. He feeds her strawberries and dresses her hat with flowers. He is extremely attracted to her, although she is taken back by his aggressiveness. After she returns back to her house, the family receives an invitation from Mrs. d'Urberville to serve as a caretaker for her flock of chickens. Tess's family is extremely saddened by her departure but serving as a caretaker will help with her family's fortunes. When she returns to the Slopes, Alec takes her on a rough carriage ride, which scares her and uncovers Alec's aggression even more with him trying to kiss her. She doesn't give into his demands and cleverly drops her hat so she can get out of the carriage. She then refuses to get back into the carriage and walks the rest of the distance to her new home.

Mrs. Brooks, the landlady at The Herons, follows Tess upstairs and spies on her through the keyhole. She sees Tess holding her head in her hands, accusing Alec of deceiving her into thinking that Angel would never come back for her. Alec replies angrily, and Mrs. Brooks, startled, flees the scene. Back in her own rooms, she sees Tess go through the front gate, where she disappears onto the street. A short while later, Mrs. Brooks's notices a dark red spot spreading in the ceiling. Terrified, Mrs. Brooks has a workman open the door of the d'Urberville rooms, where they discover Alec lying on the bed, stabbed to death. The landlady gives the alarm, and the news of Alec's murder quickly spreads through the town.

In the early fall, Angel asks Tess to marry him again. Tess demurs, saying that one of the other girls might make a better wife than she. Angel pleads with her to marry him, and shows her that they are near the ancestral territory of Tess's d'Urberville ancestors. Tess tells Angel about her lineage, and he is pleased, realizing that her descent from noble blood will make her a better match in the eyes of his family. At last Tess agrees to marry him, and begins to weep. She asks if she may write to her mother, and when Angel learns she is from Marlott, he remembers where he has seen her before--on May Day, when they did not dance. When Joan receives Tess's letter, she writes back advising her daughter not to tell Angel about her past. Tess luxuriates throughout October; when Angel asks her to finalize the date of their wedding; she again appears reticent, saying she is reluctant to change things. When Ange

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