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• "Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoore""direct lineal representative of the ancient and knightly family of the D'Urbervilles"

  -Ambiguity/Uncertainty surrounding D'Urbervilles/Durbeyfield
• "mesh of events""morning mail cart" "speeding along these lanes like an arrow""the pointed shaft pf the cart had entered the breast of the unhappy Prince like a sword""from the wound his life's blood was spouting in a stream""she became splashed from face to skirt with the crimson drops""huge pool in front of her""'Tis all my doing - all mine."

  Crash with Prince and his death (mail cart)
• "I thought we were an old family; but this is all new!""or Stoke-D'Urbervilles, as they first called themselves""the Stoke-D'Urbervilles were no more D'Urbervilles of the true tree than he was himself""D'Urbervilles looked and sounded as well as any of them"

  -False aristocracy of Stoke-D'Urbervilles
• "strawberries""held it by the stem to her mouth""in slight distress she parted her lips and took it in""eating in an abstracted half-hypnotised state whatever D'Urbervilles offered her"

  Strawberry scene
• "recklessness in her conductor's driving"Brave bouncing girl""sometimes a wheel was off the ground""sometimes a stone was sent spinning over the hedge""kiss of mastery""revealing the red and ivory of her mouth in defiant triumph"

  Alec, dangerous cart journey