"So the baby was carried in a small deal box, under an ancient woman's shawl, to the churchyard that…
The passage describes the burial of Tess’s infant Sorrow in Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles.
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"So the baby was carried in a small deal box, under an ancient woman's shawl, to the churchyard that night, and
buried by lantern-light, at the cost of a shilling, and a pint of beer to the sexton, in that shabby corner of God's
allotment where He lets the nettles grow, and where all unbaptized infants, notorious drunkard, suicides and
others of the conjecturally damned are laid."
From which novel is this excerpt taken?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer B
The passage describes the burial of Tess’s infant Sorrow in Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles.
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