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Building tale on the back of Thomas Hardy's Tess?(BOOKS)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 20051016
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Byline: Claire Hopley, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Vida Avery is a hard woman, though Tom Belou, the widower who marries her, doesn't see it. He compares her to a heron. With its long and deadly beak, stilt legs, and streamlined body, a heron could be considered a hard bird. But that is not in Tom's mind when he spots Vida at awards ceremony where she is being honored as the best teacher in the school. It's her "long neck and delicate bones" that Tom falls for. Perhaps he thinks she has a heron's sharp perceptual skills also. If so, he is mistaken.

While Vida has ...

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