Tess Durbeyfield at this time of her life was a mere vessel of emotion
untinctured by experience.
"The right of a lively mind, Fanny, seizing whatever may contribute to its own amusement or that of others; perfectly allowable, when
untinctured by ill-humour or roughness; and there is not a shadow of either in the countenance or manner of Miss Crawford: nothing sharp, or loud, or coarse.
On this point she was soon satisfied; and two or three little circumstances occurred ere they parted, which, in her anxious interpretation, denoted a recollection of Jane not
untinctured by tenderness, and a wish of saying more that might lead to the mention of her, had he dared.