The voice of a "ranter"triumphantly consigning a Barnful of rustics to eternal damnation caused Tess to pause a moment in a doorway,
The voice of a "ranter" triumphantly consigning a barnful of rustics to eternal damnation caused Tess to pause a moment in a doorway, and there on a platform of corn-bags, in sanctimonious sidewhiskers and semi-clerical blacks, stood Alec D'Urberville.
