Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?"" Yes."" All like ours?"" I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stub bard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted."" Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?"" A blighted one.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles