"How can I pray for you," she said, "when I am forbidden to believe that the great Power who moves the world would alter His plans on my account?"


phase the Sixth: The Convert, ch. XLVI - Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)


How can I pray for you, she said, when I am forbidden to believe that the great Power who moves the world would alter His plans on my account?

How can I pray for you, she said, when I am forbidden to believe that the great Power who moves the world would alter His plans on my account?

How can I pray for you, she said, when I am forbidden to believe that the great Power who moves the world would alter His plans on my account?

How can I pray for you, she said, when I am forbidden to believe that the great Power who moves the world would alter His plans on my account?