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Adam Bede

George Eliot

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ADAM BEDE

George Eliot

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Contents
Click on numbers to go to Chapter
Book First
Chapter I.  The Workshop ....................................................................8
Chapter II.  The Preaching.................................................................19
Chapter III.  After the Preaching......................................................44
Chapter IV.  Home and Its Sorrows..................................................52
Chapter V.  The Rector........................................................................72
Chapter VI.  The Hall Farm ...............................................................94
Chapter VII.  The Dairy ....................................................................110
Chapter VIII.  A Vocation.................................................................117
Chapter IX.  Hetty’s World...............................................................128
Chapter X.  Dinah Visits Lisbeth.....................................................137
Chapter XI.  In the Cottage ..............................................................152
Chapter XII.  In the Wood................................................................163
Chapter XIII.  Evening in the Wood...............................................178
Chapter XIV.  The Return Home ....................................................185
Chapter XV.  The Two Bed-Chambers...........................................197
Chapter XVI.  Links ..........................................................................214
Book Second
Chapter XVII.  In Which the Story Pauses a Little......................232
Chapter XVIII.  Church....................................................................244
Chapter XIX.  Adam on a Working Day.........................................273

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Chapter XX.  Adam Visits the Hall Farm.......................................282
Chapter XXI.  The Night-School and the Schoolmaster.............305
Book Third
Chapter XXII.  Going to the Birthday Feast .................................326
Chapter XXIII.  Dinner-Time..........................................................340
Chapter XXIV.  The Health-Drinking............................................347
Chapter XXV.  The Games...............................................................357
Chapter XXVI.  The Dance..............................................................368
Book Fourth
Chapter XXVII.  A Crisis..................................................................383
Chapter XXVIII.  A Dilemma..........................................................398
Chapter XXIX.  The Next Morning................................................408
Chapter XXX.  The Delivery of the Letter.....................................418
Chapter XXXI.  In Hetty’s Bed-Chamber......................................435
Chapter XXXII.  Mrs. Poyser “Has Her Say Out” .......................448
Chapter XXXIII.  More Links.........................................................460
Chapter XXXIV.  The Betrothal .....................................................469
Chapter XXXV.  The Hidden Dread...............................................475
Book Fifth
Chapter XXXVI.  The Journey in Hope.........................................484
Chapter XXXVII.  The Journey in Despair...................................496
Chapter XXXVIII.  The Quest ........................................................512
Chapter XXXIX.  The Tidings ........................................................531
Chapter XL.  The Bitter Waters Spread.........................................541

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Chapter XLI.  The Eve of the Trial .................................................553
Chapter XLII.  The Morning of the Trial.......................................560
Chapter XLIII.  The Verdict............................................................566
Chapter XLIV.  Arthur’s Return .....................................................575
Chapter XLV.  In the Prison ............................................................585
Chapter XLVI.  The Hours of Suspense ........................................599
Chapter XLVII.  The Last Moment ................................................607
Chapter XLVIII.  Another Meeting in the Wood..........................609
Book Sixth
Chapter XLIX.  At the Hall Farm ...................................................622
Chapter L.  In the Cottage ................................................................634
Chapter LI.  Sunday Morning..........................................................649
Chapter LII.  Adam and Dinah........................................................665
Chapter LIII.  The Harvest Supper................................................676
Chapter LIV.  The Meeting on the Hill...........................................693
Chapter LV.  Marriage Bells.............................................................700
Chapter LVI.  Epilogue.....................................................................704

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Book First

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Chapter I

The Workshop

ith a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian

sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-

reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to

do for you, reader. With this drop of ink at the end of my pen, I will

show you the roomy workshop of Mr. Jonathan Burge, carpenter

and builder, in the village of Hayslope, as it appeared on the

eighteenth of June, in the year of our Lord 1799.

The afternoon sun was warm on the five workmen there, busy

upon doors and window-frames and wainscoting. A scent of pine-

wood from a tent-like pile of planks outside the open door mingled

itself with the scent of the elder-bushes which were spreading

their summer snow close to the open window opposite; the

slanting sunbeams shone through the transparent shavings that

flew before the steady plane, and lit up the fine grain of the oak

panelling which stood propped against the wall. On a heap of

those soft shavings a rough, grey shepherd dog had made himself

a pleasant bed, and was lying with his nose between his fore-paws,

occasionally wrinkling his brows to cast a glance at the tallest of

the five workmen, who was carving a shield in the centre of a

wooden mantelpiece. It was to this workman that the strong

baritone belonged which was heard above the sound of plane and

hammer singing—

“Awake, my soul, and with the sun

Thy daily stage of duty run;

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Shake off dull sloth...

Here some measurement was to be taken which required more

concentrated attention, and the sonorous voice subsided into a low

whistle; but it presently broke out again with renewed vigour—

“Let all thy converse be sincere,

Thy conscience as the noonday clear.

Such a voice could only come from a broad chest, and the broad

chest belonged to a large-boned, muscular man nearly six feet

high, with a back so flat and a head so well poised that when he

drew himself up to take a more distant survey of his work, he had

the air of a soldier standing at ease. The sleeve rolled up above the

elbow showed an arm that was likely to win the prize for feats of

strength; yet the long supple hand, with its broad finger-tips,

looked ready for works of skill. In his tall stalwartness Adam Bede

was a Saxon, and justified his name; but the jet-black hair, made

the more noticeable by its contrast with the light paper cap, and

the keen glance of the dark eyes that shone from under strongly

marked, prominent and mobile eyebrows, indicated a mixture of

Celtic blood. The face was large and roughly hewn, and when in

repose had no other beauty than such as belongs to an expression

of good-humoured honest intelligence.

It is clear at a glance that the next workman is Adam’s brother.

He is nearly as tall; he has the same type of features, the same hue

of hair and complexion; but the strength of the family likeness

seems only to render more conspicuous the remarkable difference

of expression both in form and face. Seth’s broad shoulders have a

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slight stoop; his eyes are grey; his eyebrows have less prominence

and more repose than his brother’s; and his glance, instead of

being keen, is confiding and benign. He has thrown off his paper

cap, and you see that his hair is not thick and straight, like

Adam’s, but thin and wavy, allowing you to discern the exact

contour of a coronal arch that predominates very decidedly over

the brow.

The idle tramps always felt sure they could get a copper from

Seth; they scarcely ever spoke to Adam.

The concert of the tools and Adam’s voice was at last broken by

Seth, who, lifting the door at which he had been working intently,

placed it against the wall, and said, “There! I’ve finished my door

to-day, anyhow.”

The workmen all looked up; Jim Salt, a burly, red-haired man

known as Sandy Jim, paused from his planing, and Adam said to

Seth, with a sharp glance of surprise, “What! Dost think thee ’st

finished the door?”

“Aye, sure,” said Seth, with answering surprise; “what’s

awanting to ’t?”

A loud roar of laughter from the other three workmen made

Seth look round confusedly. Adam did not join in the laughter, but

there was a slight smile on his face as he said, in a gentler tone

than before, “Why, thee ’st forgot the panels.”

The laughter burst out afresh as Seth clapped his hands to his

head, and coloured over brow and crown.

“Hoorray!” shouted a small lithe fellow called Wiry Ben,

running forward and seizing the door. “We’ll hang up th’ door at

fur end o’ th’ shop an’ write on ’t ‘Seth Bede, the Methody, his

work.’ Here, Jim, lend’s hould o’ th’ red pot.”

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