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142	507_book_1,_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Neither the door nor the gate of the Hall farm has been opened in a great many years, and the inside contains rags and a big wooden doll with no nose. It used to be the home of a squire, but it is now reduced to a working farm. Mrs. Poyser keeps the kitchen spotless and the surfaces polished, and her niece, Hetty Sorre...	[ "EVIDENTLY that gate is never opened, for the long grass and the great\nhemlocks grow close against it, and if it were opened, it is so rusty\nthat the force necessary to turn it on its hinges would be likely to\npull down the square stone-built pillars, to the detriment of the two\nstone lionesses which grin with ...
143	507_book_1,_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Hetty blushes when the Captain talks to her, and he is captivated by her kitten-like charm. The activity of butter-churning is perfectly suited to showing off her well-shaped arms. He invites the women to a dance on the 30th of June and asks for two dances from Hetty. Mrs. Poyser thinks that it will be much easier to b...	[ "THE dairy was certainly worth looking at: it was a scene to sicken for\nwith a sort of calenture in hot and dusty streets--such coolness, such\npurity, such fresh fragrance of new-pressed cheese, of firm butter, of\nwooden vessels perpetually bathed in pure water; such soft colouring of\nred earthenware and creamy...
144	507_book_1,_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The vicar converses with Dinah about her hometown of Snowfield, which has changed since a new mill was built there, which brought in more residents. Dinah says that she is a member of the Society , which does not prohibit women from preaching. The first time that she preached was in Hetton-Deeps, a mining town without ...	[ "DINAH, who had risen when the gentlemen came in, but still kept hold of\nthe sheet she was mending, curtsied respectfully when she saw Mr. Irwine\nlooking at her and advancing towards her. He had never yet spoken to\nher, or stood face to face with her, and her first thought, as her eyes\nmet his, was, \"What a we...
145	507_book_1,_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Hetty has been extremely flattered by the Captain's attentions. She knows that many men like to look at her including Adam Bede, whom she finds quite manly, She also knows that her father would like her to marry Adam. Although Hetty did not like it when his attentions to her slipped, she is not in love with him-especia...	[ "WHILE she adjusted the broad leaves that set off the pale fragrant\nbutter as the primrose is set off by its nest of green I am afraid Hetty\nwas thinking a great deal more of the looks Captain Donnithorne had cast\nat her than of Adam and his troubles. Bright, admiring glances from\na handsome young gentleman wit...
146	507_book_1,_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	At five, Lisbeth comes downstairs with the key to the room where her husband lies dead. She performs small offices for him such as mending his shroud, thinking with a peasant's superstition that he is somehow still conscious before he is buried. She always assumed that she would die before her husband, since she is old...	[ "AT five o'clock Lisbeth came downstairs with a large key in her hand: it was the key of the chamber where her husband lay dead. Throughout the day, except in her occasional outbursts of wailing grief, she had been in incessant movement, performing the initial duties to her dead with the awe and exactitude that bel...
147	507_book_1,_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Dinah wakes up at half past four and goes downstairs quietly, joined by Gyp. Adam has also woken up and gone to the workshop to pick out the wood for his father's coffin. Adam hears a light footstep on the stairs and imagines that it might be Hetty. Dinah greets him, Adam looks at her closely for the first time, and sh...	[ "IT was but half-past four the next morning when Dinah, tired of lying\nawake listening to the birds and watching the growing light through the\nlittle window in the garret roof, rose and began to dress herself very\nquietly, lest she should disturb Lisbeth. But already some one else was\nastir in the house, and ha...
148	507_book_1,_chapter_12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Captain Donnithorne resolves to go to Eagledale to fish for a week. His character is such that he gets into predicaments but always resolves to let the burden fall solely on his own shoulders. Eliot writes that he is a "nice" young gentleman, but that one should not question the actions of such men too deeply when, for...	[ "THAT same Thursday morning, as Arthur Donnithorne was moving about in\nhis dressing-room seeing his well-looking British person reflected in\nthe old-fashioned mirrors, and stared at, from a dingy olive-green piece\nof tapestry, by Pharaoh's daughter and her maidens, who ought to have\nbeen minding the infant Mose...
149	507_book_1,_chapter_13	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Hetty wonders fearfully whether the Captain will meet her again on her way home. The housekeeper notices her beauty and worries for her, thinking that a sensible man would not take her on either as a servant or as a wife. Hetty walks home, delighting in the expectation of meeting the Captain not only because she finds ...	[ "IT happened that Mrs. Pomfret had had a slight quarrel with Mrs. Best, the housekeeper, on this Thursday morning--a fact which had two\nconsequences highly convenient to Hetty. It caused Mrs. Pomfret to have\ntea sent up to her own room, and it inspired that exemplary lady's maid\nwith so lively a recollection of ...
150	507_book_1,_chapter_14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lisbeth watches Seth leave with Dinah and then admits that she is sorry to see Dinah go. She wishes that Dinah would marry Seth, although she can see that Dinah does not really care for Seth since she is moving so far away. Adam says that she will fall in love with Seth eventually, and Lisbeth notes that he always stic...	[ "WHILE that parting in the wood was happening, there was a parting in the\ncottage too, and Lisbeth had stood with Adam at the door, straining her\naged eyes to get the last glimpse of Seth and Dinah, as they mounted the\nopposite slope.", "\"Eh, I'm loath to see the last on her,\" she said to Adam, as they turne...
151	507_book_1,_chapter_15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Hetty and Dinah sleep in two rooms adjoining each other which have no blinds to shut out the moonlight. Hetty is quite upset with her mirror for having so many spots on it; to get a good view of herself she must press her knees against some uncomfortable brass handles. She lights two candles, takes out a smaller, hand-...	[ "HETTY and Dinah both slept in the second story, in rooms adjoining each\nother, meagrely furnished rooms, with no blinds to shut out the light,\nwhich was now beginning to gather new strength from the rising of\nthe moon--more than enough strength to enable Hetty to move about and\nundress with perfect comfort. Sh...
152	507_book_1,_chapter_16	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Captain sets out to see the vicar early in the morning, so that he can discuss the affair of Hetty with him over breakfast. He knows that the vicar takes his breakfast alone. He runs into Adam Bede along the way, and he makes Adam very happy by shaking his hand. Adam taught the Captain some carpentry when he was a ...	[ "ARTHUR DONNITHORNE, you remember, is under an engagement with himself to\ngo and see Mr. Irwine this Friday morning, and he is awake and dressing\nso early that he determines to go before breakfast, instead of after.\nThe rector, he knows, breakfasts alone at half-past nine, the ladies of\nthe family having a diff...
153	507_book_2,_chapter_17	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Eliot anticipates that her reader will be shocked by the dullness of the vicar, perhaps hoping that the vicar would be given a fine sermon to offer. She reminds the reader that her goal, however, is a faithful reprint of life as it actually is. Eliot does not want to represent people as more clearly good and evil than ...	[ "\"THIS Rector of Broxton is little better than a pagan!\" I hear one of my\nreaders exclaim. \"How much more edifying it would have been if you had\nmade him give Arthur some truly spiritual advice! You might have put\ninto his mouth the most beautiful things--quite as good as reading a\nsermon.\"", "Certainly I...
154	507_book_2,_chapter_18	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mrs. Poyser criticizes Hetty for being late to Thias Bede's funeral, but she then sees how pretty she looks in her Sunday dress. The Poysers set off with Hetty, Totty, and their nine- and seven-year-old boys, Marty and Tommy. The grandfather stands by, and Mrs. Poyser remarks that the elderly are like babies, content w...	[ "\"HETTY, Hetty, don't you know church begins at two, and it's gone half\nafter one a'ready? Have you got nothing better to think on this good\nSunday as poor old Thias Bede's to be put into the ground, and him\ndrownded i' th' dead o' the night, as it's enough to make one's back\nrun cold, but you must be 'dizenin...
155	507_book_2,_chapter_19	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As Adam walks along the farming lanes to work at a country house about three miles away, he hears the joyful sounds of the hay makers, which seem from a distance to be a part of the natural world. People work better to song, Eliot writes, though they do not move as smoothly as birds. Meanwhile, Jonathan Burge has gone ...	[ "NOTWITHSTANDING Mr. Craig's prophecy, the dark-blue cloud dispersed\nitself without having produced the threatened consequences. \"The\nweather\"--as he observed the next morning--\"the weather, you see, 's\na ticklish thing, an' a fool 'ull hit on't sometimes when a wise man\nmisses; that's why the almanecks get ...
156	507_book_2,_chapter_20	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Adam wears his Sunday clothes the Monday after, and Lisbeth is upset because she guesses correctly that he is dressed up to visit Hetty. When he reaches the Poysers' farm, Mrs. Poyser asks him to go out where Hetty is picking currants with Totty and to fetch Totty in, because she is probably eating too many currants. A...	[ "ADAM came back from his work in the empty waggon--that was why he had\nchanged his clothes--and was ready to set out to the Hall Farm when it\nstill wanted a quarter to seven.", "\"What's thee got thy Sunday cloose on for?\" said Lisbeth complainingly,\nas he came downstairs. \"Thee artna goin' to th' school i' ...
157	507_book_2,_chapter_21	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Adam reaches Bartle Massey's house thirty minutes later, just in time to catch the end of night school. The schoolmaster was helping Bill learn to read. The man has a double motivation to get up to speed--his cousin can read, as can a young boy who works in his stonecutter's shop. Another beginner is a bricklayer, prev...	[ "Bartle Massey's was one of a few scattered houses on the edge of a\ncommon, which was divided by the road to Treddleston. Adam reached it\nin a quarter of an hour after leaving the Hall Farm; and when he had his\nhand on the door-latch, he could see, through the curtainless window,\nthat there were eight or nine h...
158	507_book_3,_chapter_22	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Captain's birthday is at the end of July. Hetty prepares herself in her room, looking at a lovely pair of garnet and pearl earrings that the Captain has given her, which she knows she cannot wear yet. She wears a locket with locks of hair in it hidden in her bosom. Everyone walks towards the Chase, where the great ...	[ "THE thirtieth of July was come, and it was one of those half-dozen warm\ndays which sometimes occur in the middle of a rainy English summer. No\nrain had fallen for the last three or four days, and the weather was\nperfect for that time of the year: there was less dust than usual on\nthe dark-green hedge-rows and ...
159	507_book_3,_chapter_23	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Adam is called to dine with the large tenants and feels uncomfortable leaving his family downstairs, but Seth encourages him to go. He walks up with Bartle. There was a small argument about who was to sit at the top of the table, because the butler felt strongly that the elder Mr. Poyser should. Bartle settles the matt...	[ "WHEN Adam heard that he was to dine upstairs with the large tenants, he\nfelt rather uncomfortable at the idea of being exalted in this way above\nhis mother and Seth, who were to dine in the cloisters below. But\nMr. Mills, the butler, assured him that Captain Donnithorne had given\nparticular orders about it, an...
160	507_book_3,_chapter_24	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Everyone stands when Arthur enters, and he enjoys the sign of respect. Mr. Poyser makes a short speech thanking Arthur and calls for a toast to his health. The Captain feels only a small twinge of conscience for having feelings for Mr. Poyser's daughter and for acting on them. The Captain thanks his tenants for teachin...	[ "WHEN the dinner was over, and the first draughts from the great cask of\nbirthday ale were brought up, room was made for the broad Mr. Poyser at\nthe side of the table, and two chairs were placed at the head. It had\nbeen settled very definitely what Mr. Poyser was to do when the young\nsquire should appear, and f...
161	507_book_3,_chapter_25	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The official dancing does not begin until eight, but there is plenty of music around for the eager. There are contests including races and greased-pole-climbing, the prizes for which are handed out by the vicar's mother, who presides from under a marquee. The Captain talks to his godmother, who encourages him to get ma...	[ "THE great dance was not to begin until eight o'clock, but for any lads\nand lasses who liked to dance on the shady grass before then, there was\nmusic always at hand--for was not the band of the Benefit Club capable\nof playing excellent jigs, reels, and hornpipes? And, besides this,\nthere was a grand band hired ...
162	507_book_3,_chapter_26	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The ball is held in the grand entrance room to the Chase. Lisbeth Bede objects to Adam being invited to the dancing because it causes him to leave his family, but when Adam says that he could apologize to the Captain and explain that his mother did not want him to attend, she says that he should go after all. Seth is h...	[ "ARTHUR had chosen the entrance-hall for the ballroom: very wisely, for\nno other room could have been so airy, or would have had the advantage\nof the wide doors opening into the garden, as well as a ready entrance\ninto the other rooms. To be sure, a stone floor was not the pleasantest\nto dance on, but then, mos...
163	507_book_4,_chapter_27	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In the middle of August, Adam performs twice as much work as before. He has begun his work on the Captain's estate, but he also has remained with Mr. Burge until Mr. Burge can find a replacement. His hopes about Hetty are high, because she has behaved more nicely than usual to him after the ball. One evening she goes t...	[ "IT was beyond the middle of August--nearly three weeks after the\nbirthday feast. The reaping of the wheat had begun in our north midland\ncounty of Loamshire, but the harvest was likely still to be retarded\nby the heavy rains, which were causing inundations and much damage\nthroughout the country. From this last...
164	507_book_4,_chapter_28	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	After a few minutes, Arthur sits up and says that he fainted. Adam tends to him, putting water on his forehead. They walk to the Hermitage to get Arthur some brandy so that he can stand the walk home. It is a surprise to Adam that the Hermitage has become so well equipped as a hideaway for Arthur. Arthur revives himsel...	[ "IT was only a few minutes measured by the clock--though Adam always\nthought it had been a long while--before he perceived a gleam of\nconsciousness in Arthur's face and a slight shiver through his frame.\nThe intense joy that flooded his soul brought back some of the old\naffection with it.", "\"Do you feel any...
165	507_book_4,_chapter_29	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Arthur wakes up in the morning and decides to go for a ride on his horse. He hates to witness pain. Once he gave a gardener his favorite pencil case because he kicked over the man's supper of broth. If Arthur could gain back Adam's self-confidence with gifts, then he would try to do so, but he knows that he cannot. He ...	[ "ARTHUR did not pass a sleepless night; he slept long and well. For sleep\ncomes to the perplexed--if the perplexed are only weary enough. But at\nseven he rang his bell and astonished Pym by declaring he was going to\nget up, and must have breakfast brought to him at eight.", "\"And see that my mare is saddled a...
166	507_book_4,_chapter_30	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next Sunday Adam joins the Poysers on their way to church with the letter in his pocket. He hopes to find a moment to talk to Hetty alone. After church, Adam asks to speak to her alone. Hetty is relieved, because she knows that Adam must have seen her kiss the Captain and feels sure that they would not have talked ...	[ "THE next Sunday Adam joined the Poysers on their way out of church,\nhoping for an invitation to go home with them. He had the letter in\nhis pocket, and was anxious to have an opportunity of talking to Hetty\nalone. He could not see her face at church, for she had changed her\nseat, and when he came up to her to ...
167	507_book_4,_chapter_31	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Hetty reads the letter from Arthur in her bedchamber. It is not easy for her to read the fancy handwriting, although Arthur has tried to write plainly. He says that he loves her and will always remember their love, but it would have been better had they not had it in the first place. He says that even if he married her...	[ "IT was no longer light enough to go to bed without a candle, even in\nMrs. Poyser's early household, and Hetty carried one with her as she\nwent up at last to her bedroom soon after Adam was gone, and bolted the\ndoor behind her.", "Now she would read her letter. It must--it must have comfort in it. How\nwas Ada...
168	507_book_4,_chapter_32	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mr. Casson sees the stranger in top-boots ride by again. He says good morning to ascertain the man's accent, and he says that it is foreign and cannot compare to his own refined accent. Bartle makes fun of him, saying that despite the fact that he has worked with gentlefolks, his accent is still terrible. The old Squir...	[ "THE next Saturday evening there was much excited discussion at the\nDonnithorne Arms concerning an incident which had occurred that very\nday--no less than a second appearance of the smart man in top-boots said\nby some to be a mere farmer in treaty for the Chase Farm, by others to\nbe the future steward, but by M...
169	507_book_4,_chapter_33	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The barley crop is in, and it is already Michaelmas. Mr. Thurle did not come to the Chase, so the old Squire was obliged to find a steward. The whole town knows that this is because Mrs. Poyser refused to be put upon. Mrs. Irwine approves highly, and she wishes that she were rich enough to give the lady a pension. Hett...	[ "THE barley was all carried at last, and the harvest suppers went by\nwithout waiting for the dismal black crop of beans. The apples and\nnuts were gathered and stored; the scent of whey departed from the\nfarm-houses, and the scent of brewing came in its stead. The woods\nbehind the Chase, and all the hedgerow tre...
170	507_book_4,_chapter_34	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On the second of November, Mrs. Poyser does not go to church because she has a serious cold. Mr. Poyser decides to keep her company. Adam walks Hetty home from church and tells her that he has been made partners with Mr. Burge. Hetty thinks that this goes together with him marrying Mary Burge, and that Adam is doing so...	[ "IT was a dry Sunday, and really a pleasant day for the 2d of November. There was no sunshine, but the clouds were high, and the wind was so\nstill that the yellow leaves which fluttered down from the hedgerow elms\nmust have fallen from pure decay. Nevertheless, Mrs. Poyser did not go\nto church, for she had taken...
171	507_book_4,_chapter_35	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It is a busy time for Adam, but one that he enjoys, because it takes him closer to March, when he will at last be married to Hetty. It was decided that Adam and Hetty should live with Lisbeth and Seth, as Hetty had agreed. Also, Seth comes back from visiting Dinah and says that her mind is not turned toward marrying at...	[ "IT was a busy time for Adam--the time between the beginning of November\nand the beginning of February, and he could see little of Hetty, except\non Sundays. But a happy time, nevertheless, for it was taking him nearer\nand nearer to March, when they were to be married, and all the little\npreparations for their n...
172	507_book_5,_chapter_36	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Hetty is terrified at the beginning of her journey, because the coachman jokes with her about the beau whom she is traveling to find, and she assumes that he actually knows about her affairs. She is alarmed further when she finds out how much the trip will actually cost. She tells everyone that she is looking for her b...	[ "A LONG, lonely journey, with sadness in the heart; away from the\nfamiliar to the strange: that is a hard and dreary thing even to the\nrich, the strong, the instructed; a hard thing, even when we are called\nby duty, not urged by dread.", "What was it then to Hetty? With her poor narrow thoughts, no longer\nmel...
173	507_book_5,_chapter_37	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Hetty is too ill for the rest of the day to realize just how bad her predicament is. The next morning she realizes that she is friendless and that all of her money is gone. She yearns to be back at home, where everything is familiar. She decides to try to sell the jewelry that Arthur has given her. But now that all of ...	[ "HETTY was too ill through the rest of that day for any questions to be\naddressed to her--too ill even to think with any distinctness of the\nevils that were to come. She only felt that all her hope was crushed,\nand that instead of having found a refuge she had only reached the\nborders of a new wilderness where ...
174	507_book_5,_chapter_38	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The ten days after Hetty leaves pass quietly at the farm, but after two weeks, everyone starts to worry. Adam decides to set out on Sunday to find her and to bring her home on Monday. Seth walks with Adam for the first two miles, saying that he will probably be a bachelor and fuss over Adam's children. Adam is so happy...	[ "THE first ten days after Hetty's departure passed as quietly as any other days with the family at the Hall Farm, and with Adam at his daily work. They had expected Hetty to stay away a week or ten days at least, perhaps a little longer if Dinah came back with her, because there might then be something to detain th...
175	507_book_5,_chapter_39	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As he shows Adam in, the butler says that a strange person, who has just left, came for some unknown reason. When Adam sees Mr. Irwine, he looks distressed and has a letter open in front of him. Adam tells him the news about Hetty. When Adam says that he may have some idea about where and to whom Hetty has gone, Mr. Ir...	[ "ADAM turned his face towards Broxton and walked with his swiftest\nstride, looking at his watch with the fear that Mr. Irwine might be gone\nout--hunting, perhaps. The fear and haste together produced a state of\nstrong excitement before he reached the rectory gate, and outside it he\nsaw the deep marks of a recen...
176	507_book_5,_chapter_40	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mr. Irwine returns home from Stoniton that night. His butler tells him that the old Squire is dead. Mrs. Irwine rejoices that Arthur is returning, but the vicar can only groan. Adam has taken a room near the prison, convinced that Hetty is innocent. Mr. Irwine thinks that it is a hard fate that he must tell the town ab...	[ "MR. IRWINE returned from Stoniton in a post-chaise that night, and the\nfirst words Carroll said to him, as he entered the house, were, that\nSquire Donnithorne was dead--found dead in his bed at ten o'clock that\nmorning--and that Mrs. Irwine desired him to say she should be awake\nwhen Mr. Irwine came home, and ...
177	507_book_5,_chapter_41	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Adam and Bartle share a room in Stoniton, and Adam looks terrible. Mr. Irwine arrives and says that Hetty is still refusing to see anyone. Arthur has still not returned. Although Mr. Irwine warns him against acting rashly, Adam says that he would prefer to commit a crime that he would be punished for rather than to sta...	[ "AN upper room in a dull Stoniton street, with two beds in it--one laid\non the floor. It is ten o'clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall\nopposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled\nwith the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is\npretending to read, while he is really...
178	507_book_5,_chapter_42	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Adam hopes that Hetty will consent to see him on the morning of her trial, so that she will give up this seeming hardness towards her jailors. Bartle comes back from the beginning of the trial with nothing decisive to report. He says that Hetty's lawyer is good, which is fitting because he has been paid a lot. There ar...	[ "AT one o'clock the next day, Adam was alone in his dull upper room;\nhis watch lay before him on the table, as if he were counting the\nlong minutes. He had no knowledge of what was likely to be said by\nthe witnesses on the trial, for he had shrunk from all the particulars\nconnected with Hetty's arrest and accus...
179	507_book_5,_chapter_43	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Adam comes into the court and takes his place beside Hetty. He looks at her and wonders why people say that she is so changed. She looks hardened, but otherwise she is the same person to him. A middle-aged woman is in the witness box. Her name is Sarah Stone, and she keeps a small shop which Hetty mistook for a public ...	[ "THE place fitted up that day as a court of justice was a grand old hall,\nnow destroyed by fire. The midday light that fell on the close pavement\nof human heads was shed through a line of high pointed windows,\nvariegated with the mellow tints of old painted glass. Grim dusty armour\nhung in high relief in front ...
180	507_book_5,_chapter_44	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Arthur is not very grieved at hearing the news of his grandfather's death. He plans to show his tenants what a fine man he is--and Aunt Lydia would continue to live with him until he got married--but that event seems far in the future. He is not worried about Hetty, having received news that Adam is to marry her, which...	[ "When Arthur Donnithorne landed at Liverpool and read the letter from\nhis Aunt Lydia, briefly announcing his grand-father's death, his first\nfeeling was, \"Poor Grandfather! I wish I could have got to him to be\nwith him when he died. He might have felt or wished something at the\nlast that I shall never know now...
181	507_book_5,_chapter_45	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	An elderly gentleman is standing outside the door to the prison when Dinah asks him if she can get in. The man says that he remembers her, and she asks if he is the man who stayed on horseback throughout her preaching in Hayslope. He says that he is and that he is a magistrate who can gain Dinah's access to Hetty. His ...	[ "NEAR sunset that evening an elderly gentleman was standing with his back\nagainst the smaller entrance-door of Stoniton jail, saying a few last\nwords to the departing chaplain. The chaplain walked away, but the\nelderly gentleman stood still, looking down on the pavement and stroking\nhis chin with a ruminating a...
182	507_book_5,_chapter_47	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The whole town has heard of Dinah Morris, the Methodist woman who got Hetty to confess. Thus, there is as much eagerness among the multitude to see Dinah as to see the condemned woman. The crowd shouts in a sudden excitement. The rider who appears is Arthur Donnithorne, who is holding in his hand a hard-won release fro...	[ "IT was a sight that some people remembered better even than their own\nsorrows--the sight in that grey clear morning, when the fatal cart\nwith the two young women in it was descried by the waiting watching\nmultitude, cleaving its way towards the hideous symbol of a deliberately\ninflicted sudden death.", "All ...
183	507_book_5,_chapter_48	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next day at evening, prompted by the same memory, both Adam Bede and Arthur Donnithorne walk toward the grove where they had their previous encounter. The old Squire was buried that morning. Adam decided to wind up work with Mr. Burge and move wherever the Poysers chose to move, bound up as they are in a mutual sor...	[ "THE next day, at evening, two men were walking from opposite points\ntowards the same scene, drawn thither by a common memory. The scene was\nthe Grove by Donnithorne Chase: you know who the men were.", "The old squire's funeral had taken place that morning, the will had been\nread, and now in the first breathin...
184	507_book_6,_chapter_49	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Eighteen months after Adam and Arthur part, in 1801, Mrs. Poyser milks the cows and speaks with Dinah. Both are wearing black dresses. Mrs. Poyser is trying to convince her not to go back to Snowfield. She argues that some of the people in Hayslope whom Dinah helped to find religion will go back to sin; Chad's Bess wil...	[ "THE first autumnal afternoon sunshine of 1801--more than eighteen months\nafter that parting of Adam and Arthur in the Hermitage--was on the\nyard at the Hall Farm; and the bull-dog was in one of his most excited\nmoments, for it was that hour of the day when the cows were being driven\ninto the yard for their aft...
185	507_book_6,_chapter_50	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Adam does not ask to take her arm, since he has never seen her walk arm in arm with Seth and thus assumes that it is disagreeable to her. Adam wonders aloud that she cannot make the Poysers' home her permanent home--with no interest of his own, merely thinking of his brother. He tells Dinah that he still wishes that sh...	[ "ADAM did not ask Dinah to take his arm when they got out into the lane.\nHe had never yet done so, often as they had walked together, for he had\nobserved that she never walked arm-in-arm with Seth, and he thought,\nperhaps, that kind of support was not agreeable to her. So they walked\napart, though side by side,...
186	507_book_6,_chapter_51	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lisbeth begs her not to go, saying that perhaps Seth was not good enough for her, but Adam could be made to like her if she stops for a little while longer. After she leaves, Lisbeth complains to Seth that she would not have gone if Adam were more fond of her. Seth asks if she has said anything about the matter, but Li...	[ "LISBETH'S touch of rheumatism could not be made to appear serious enough\nto detain Dinah another night from the Hall Farm, now she had made up\nher mind to leave her aunt so soon, and at evening the friends must\npart. \"For a long while,\" Dinah had said, for she had told Lisbeth of\nher resolve.", "\"Then it'...
187	507_book_6,_chapter_52	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Dinah blushes in surprise at seeing him. She says that she hopes that Adam's mother is well. He says that he loves her with his heart and soul. She turns white with a painful joy, but then he says that they must part anyway. He asks her if she feels for him as if he is more than a brother. She says that she does but th...	[ "IT was about three o'clock when Adam entered the farmyard and roused\nAlick and the dogs from their Sunday dozing. Alick said everybody was\ngone to church \"but th' young missis\"--so he called Dinah--but this\ndid not disappoint Adam, although the \"everybody\" was so liberal as\nto include Nancy the dairymaid, ...
188	507_book_6,_chapter_53	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On Wednesday, Adam returns home from work, hoping that he can fix a time to visit Dinah in Snowfield. Upon reaching the Poysers' home, he is alarmed that Dinah is not there. She has left already. Mr. Poyser watches half-witted Tom Saft enjoy his beef dinner with great amusement. Tom seems like something of a jester aro...	[ "As Adam was going homeward, on Wednesday evening, in the six o'clock\nsunlight, he saw in the distance the last load of barley winding its way\ntowards the yard-gate of the Hall Farm, and heard the chant of \"Harvest\nHome!\" rising and sinking like a wave. Fainter and fainter, and more\nmusical through the growin...
189	507_book_6,_chapter_54	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Adam understands Dinah's reasons for leaving--her feelings towards him were getting too strong. Adam writes her a letter, but he burns it and decides to go to Snowfield himself. On the way along the same road that he once walked to try to find Hetty, Adam understands that his love for Dinah is deeper and better. He rid...	[ "ADAM understood Dinah's haste to go away, and drew hope rather than\ndiscouragement from it. She was fearful lest the strength of her feeling\ntowards him should hinder her from waiting and listening faithfully for\nthe ultimate guiding voice from within.", "\"I wish I'd asked her to write to me, though,\" he th...
190	507_book_6,_chapter_55	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A little more than a month later, Adam and Dinah are married. It is a community-wide event. For once, Dinah does not wear black. She wears a gray dress in the Quaker style. There is a small tinge of sadness in Adam's great joy, which Dinah recognizes but does not begrudge him. Bartle Massey consents to attend the weddi...	[ "IN little more than a month after that meeting on the hill--on a rimy\nmorning in departing November--Adam and Dinah were married.", "It was an event much thought of in the village. All Mr. Burge's men had\na holiday, and all Mr. Poyser's, and most of those who had a holiday\nappeared in their best clothes at th...
137	507_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The first person you meet in Adam Bede isn't a real, live, flesh-and-blood person. It's Eliot's third-person narrator. In the first paragraph, this narrator compares himself to an "Egyptian sorcerer" who reveals "far-reaching visions of the past" . Ooh, la la. The "vision" that begins the book is of "the roomy workshop...	[ "With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes\nto reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is\nwhat I undertake to do for you, reader. With this drop of ink at the\nend of my pen, I will show you the roomy workshop of Mr. Jonathan Burge,\ncarpenter and builder, i...
138	507_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It's "about a quarter to seven," and there's more commotion than usual in Hayslope . By now, that elderly horseman is done staring at Adam and arrives in the center of the village. He stops near the town inn and asks the innkeeper, Mr. Casson, what the hullabaloo is all about. Mr. Casson informs the horseman, "It's a M...	[ "About a quarter to seven there was an unusual appearance of excitement\nin the village of Hayslope, and through the whole length of its\nlittle street, from the Donnithorne Arms to the churchyard gate, the\ninhabitants had evidently been drawn out of their houses by something\nmore than the pleasure of lounging in...
139	507_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The preaching has ended, and Seth and Dinah are walking home in "the cool evening twilight" . Dinah seems calm and content. But Seth is full of doubt and anxiety because he's got a crush on Dinah. Soon Dinah will be leaving town. There are people elsewhere who need her help. Seth, however, wants her to stay. And to mar...	[ "IN less than an hour from that time, Seth Bede was walking by Dinah's\nside along the hedgerow-path that skirted the pastures and green\ncorn-fields which lay between the village and the Hall Farm. Dinah had\ntaken off her little Quaker bonnet again, and was holding it in\nher hands that she might have a freer enj...
140	507_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	And now, back to Adam. When last we saw him, Adam Bede was walking home. His destination is a "thatched house, with a stack of timber by the side of it" . And in this house waits Adam's mother, Lisbeth Bede, a tall, hardy, and very sad woman. Why is Lisbeth sad? Pretty much all thanks to Adam's father, Thias Bede. Inst...	[ "A GREEN valley with a brook running through it, full almost to\noverflowing with the late rains, overhung by low stooping willows.\nAcross this brook a plank is thrown, and over this plank Adam Bede is\npassing with his undoubting step, followed close by Gyp with the basket;\nevidently making his way to the thatch...
141	507_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Okay, this is weird. George Eliot just killed off her main character's father. We're all in suspense, waiting, waiting like mad, when suddenly, suddenly... it's time to meet the local clergyman. Whoa, anticlimax. Eliot begins the chapter by describing the "heavy storms of rain" that break out soon after Thais Bede is f...	[ "BEFORE twelve o'clock there had been some heavy storms of rain, and the\nwater lay in deep gutters on the sides of the gravel walks in the garden\nof Broxton Parsonage; the great Provence roses had been cruelly tossed\nby the wind and beaten by the rain, and all the delicate-stemmed border\nflowers had been dashed...
142	507_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Please George, let us settle down a bit. Can we spend a little more time in Irwine's nice house? Nope: have to relocate yet again. New chapter, new location. And this time it's a grassy, mossy, picturesque corner of Hayslope known as The Hall Farm. Oh yeah, and like a gazillion of the book's most important characters l...	[ "EVIDENTLY that gate is never opened, for the long grass and the great\nhemlocks grow close against it, and if it were opened, it is so rusty\nthat the force necessary to turn it on its hinges would be likely to\npull down the square stone-built pillars, to the detriment of the two\nstone lionesses which grin with ...
143	507_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	"The dairy was certainly worth looking at" is how this chapter begins . Well, that had better be the case. Why else would it get a whole chapter? Yet Arthur, and Eliot, quickly abandon "the dairy" to stare at its pretty dairymaid. Hetty blushes deeply when handsome Arthur Donnithorne appears. Hetty is a babe. Even whil...	[ "THE dairy was certainly worth looking at: it was a scene to sicken for\nwith a sort of calenture in hot and dusty streets--such coolness, such\npurity, such fresh fragrance of new-pressed cheese, of firm butter, of\nwooden vessels perpetually bathed in pure water; such soft colouring of\nred earthenware and creamy...
144	507_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Last chapter, we had something vaguely like love at first sight. This chapter, we've got a Methodism versus Church of England smackdown. In the one corner, Dinah "The Lady Preacher" Morris. In the other, Reverend "The Reverend" Adolphus Irwine. Wait, hold on, what's this? They're talking politely? Oh. When things start...	[ "DINAH, who had risen when the gentlemen came in, but still kept hold of\nthe sheet she was mending, curtsied respectfully when she saw Mr. Irwine\nlooking at her and advancing towards her. He had never yet spoken to\nher, or stood face to face with her, and her first thought, as her eyes\nmet his, was, \"What a we...
145	507_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Now, we've just spent chapters on the Bede family's troubles, but how much do these troubles matter to Hetty? Answer : 0%. The truth is, "Hetty was thinking a great deal more of the looks Captain Donnithorne had cast at her than of Adam and his troubles" . Okay then... What are we supposed to make of Hetty? Loathe her?...	[ "WHILE she adjusted the broad leaves that set off the pale fragrant\nbutter as the primrose is set off by its nest of green I am afraid Hetty\nwas thinking a great deal more of the looks Captain Donnithorne had cast\nat her than of Adam and his troubles. Bright, admiring glances from\na handsome young gentleman wit...
146	507_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Decent day for Hetty and Arthur, awful day for Lisbeth Bede. Since morning, poor Lisbeth has been making arrangements for Thias's last rights. Oh yeah, and suffering from "occasional outbursts of wailing grief" . Girls like Hetty just want to have fun. Girls like Lisbeth--fun is the last thing they're having. Lisbeth h...	[ "AT five o'clock Lisbeth came downstairs with a large key in her hand: it was the key of the chamber where her husband lay dead. Throughout the day, except in her occasional outbursts of wailing grief, she had been in incessant movement, performing the initial duties to her dead with the awe and exactitude that bel...
147	507_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next morning at "half-past four," Dinah is "lying awake listening to the birds and watching the growing light" . Ugh. Morning people are the worst. Anyway, Dinah decides to sneak out without making a peep. The Bedes did just lose their paterfamilias. Let them rest. But Adam, "with his habitual impatience of mere pa...	[ "IT was but half-past four the next morning when Dinah, tired of lying\nawake listening to the birds and watching the growing light through the\nlittle window in the garret roof, rose and began to dress herself very\nquietly, lest she should disturb Lisbeth. But already some one else was\nastir in the house, and ha...
148	507_chapter_12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Same Thursday morning as the last chapter, totally different scene. Now we get to spend some time with Arthur Donnithorne. Arthur is lounging in his rooms and planning a fishing expedition. He's also dreaming about all the good things he'll do when he takes over the estate--that is, when his unpleasant, inept grandfath...	[ "THAT same Thursday morning, as Arthur Donnithorne was moving about in\nhis dressing-room seeing his well-looking British person reflected in\nthe old-fashioned mirrors, and stared at, from a dingy olive-green piece\nof tapestry, by Pharaoh's daughter and her maidens, who ought to have\nbeen minding the infant Mose...
149	507_chapter_13	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	There's "a slight quarrel" going on among the women of the Donnithorne estate . But Hetty--who'll be our eyes on the ground for this chapter--could care less. All Hetty can think of is her upcoming meeting. With Arthur. As she performs her duties around the Donnithorne estate, Hetty's "little butterfly soul" flutters "...	[ "IT happened that Mrs. Pomfret had had a slight quarrel with Mrs. Best, the housekeeper, on this Thursday morning--a fact which had two\nconsequences highly convenient to Hetty. It caused Mrs. Pomfret to have\ntea sent up to her own room, and it inspired that exemplary lady's maid\nwith so lively a recollection of ...
150	507_chapter_14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Now back to the Bedes. Adam and Lisbeth are standing at the door to their cottage, watching Seth and Dinah depart. Lisbeth declares herself "loathe to see the last" of Dinah . But Adam is convinced that Seth will eventually win Dinah over and bring her back. Lisbeth is pretty skeptical about this ever happening. Seth a...	[ "WHILE that parting in the wood was happening, there was a parting in the\ncottage too, and Lisbeth had stood with Adam at the door, straining her\naged eyes to get the last glimpse of Seth and Dinah, as they mounted the\nopposite slope.", "\"Eh, I'm loath to see the last on her,\" she said to Adam, as they turne...
151	507_chapter_15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Hetty and Dinah are both getting ready for bed "in rooms adjoining each other, meagerly furnished rooms, with no blinds to shut out the light" . And that's pretty much where the similarities stop. Adjoining rooms or no adjoining rooms, the two girls are worlds away--personality-wise, that is. Here's what Hetty cares ab...	[ "HETTY and Dinah both slept in the second story, in rooms adjoining each\nother, meagrely furnished rooms, with no blinds to shut out the light,\nwhich was now beginning to gather new strength from the rising of\nthe moon--more than enough strength to enable Hetty to move about and\nundress with perfect comfort. Sh...
152	507_chapter_16	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It's Friday morning now, and Arthur is "under an engagement with himself to go and see Mr. Irwine" . He sure picked a good time to do it. As Eliot's narrator explains, breakfast is a time when you can discuss unpleasant matters in an "easy and cheerful" way . Take the whole Hetty and Arthur forbidden love thing. Unplea...	[ "ARTHUR DONNITHORNE, you remember, is under an engagement with himself to\ngo and see Mr. Irwine this Friday morning, and he is awake and dressing\nso early that he determines to go before breakfast, instead of after.\nThe rector, he knows, breakfasts alone at half-past nine, the ladies of\nthe family having a diff...
153	507_chapter_17	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Stop what you're doing: George Eliot has something important to say! Or rather, one of her imaginary readers does. Eliot opens Chapter 17 by imagining a reader who is turned off by Mr. Irwine--who finds the jolly fellow "little better than a pagan" and wishes he had "the most beautiful things" to say instead" . And wha...	[ "\"THIS Rector of Broxton is little better than a pagan!\" I hear one of my\nreaders exclaim. \"How much more edifying it would have been if you had\nmade him give Arthur some truly spiritual advice! You might have put\ninto his mouth the most beautiful things--quite as good as reading a\nsermon.\"", "Certainly I...
154	507_chapter_18	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Hetty and her aunt, Mrs. Poyser, are getting ready for church. And Hetty's lookin' good: "if ever a girl looked as if she had been made of roses, that girl was Hetty in her Sunday hat and frock" . Soon all the Poysers are ready, and set off in a "little procession" . Even old Martin, who is feeling a tad ill and will b...	[ "\"HETTY, Hetty, don't you know church begins at two, and it's gone half\nafter one a'ready? Have you got nothing better to think on this good\nSunday as poor old Thias Bede's to be put into the ground, and him\ndrownded i' th' dead o' the night, as it's enough to make one's back\nrun cold, but you must be 'dizenin...
155	507_chapter_19	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It's a beautiful summer morning, and Adam is on his way to work. He has to help refurbish "a country house about three miles off, which was being put in repair for the son of a neighbouring squire" . What shall we call this scenario: This Old Mansion? Hayslope Improvement? Bede Eye for the Aristocratic Guy? As Adam wal...	[ "NOTWITHSTANDING Mr. Craig's prophecy, the dark-blue cloud dispersed\nitself without having produced the threatened consequences. \"The\nweather\"--as he observed the next morning--\"the weather, you see, 's\na ticklish thing, an' a fool 'ull hit on't sometimes when a wise man\nmisses; that's why the almanecks get ...
156	507_chapter_20	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Adam returns from work, stops in to see his mother, then sets off for the Hall Farm in his best set of clothes. Or so he thinks. He's barely left when Lisbeth runs after him. She is "uneasy at the thought that she had vexed him" . She's also none too happy about him courting a n'er-do-well like Hetty, but she doesn't h...	[ "ADAM came back from his work in the empty waggon--that was why he had\nchanged his clothes--and was ready to set out to the Hall Farm when it\nstill wanted a quarter to seven.", "\"What's thee got thy Sunday cloose on for?\" said Lisbeth complainingly,\nas he came downstairs. \"Thee artna goin' to th' school i' ...
157	507_chapter_21	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Time to get ourselves an education, Hayslope-style. After leaving the Hall Farm, Adam heads to the local schoolhouse, a place he knows like the back of his hand. Heck, he knew "the backs of all the books of the shelf running along the whitewashed wall above the pegs for the slates" . Meet Bartle Massey, Schoolteacher. ...	[ "Bartle Massey's was one of a few scattered houses on the edge of a\ncommon, which was divided by the road to Treddleston. Adam reached it\nin a quarter of an hour after leaving the Hall Farm; and when he had his\nhand on the door-latch, he could see, through the curtainless window,\nthat there were eight or nine h...
158	507_chapter_22	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It's a new chapter, and all of Hayslope is getting ready for the official Arthur Donnithorne Birthday Bonanza. The local forecast: "Perfect weather for an outdoor July merrymaking" . The local traffic report: "It was a time of leisure on the farm--that pause between hay- and corn-harvest" . Everybody is chillin' like a...	[ "THE thirtieth of July was come, and it was one of those half-dozen warm\ndays which sometimes occur in the middle of a rainy English summer. No\nrain had fallen for the last three or four days, and the weather was\nperfect for that time of the year: there was less dust than usual on\nthe dark-green hedge-rows and ...
159	507_chapter_23	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When Adam hears "that he was to dine upstairs with the large tenants," he's put off . What about his family? But Seth is happy to see his brother getting on in the world, and reassures Adam that "Mother 'ull be fine and joyful about it" . So Adam joins the other big-shots, folks like Martin Poyser and Mr. Craig and Bar...	[ "WHEN Adam heard that he was to dine upstairs with the large tenants, he\nfelt rather uncomfortable at the idea of being exalted in this way above\nhis mother and Seth, who were to dine in the cloisters below. But\nMr. Mills, the butler, assured him that Captain Donnithorne had given\nparticular orders about it, an...
160	507_chapter_24	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Now you get to see how Hayslope parties. Dinner has ended and "the great cask of birthday ale" has just been trotted out . Fortunately, all Eliot's characters know how to hold their liquor . There will be no drunken brawls, just good, clean, orderly speeches. Mr. Poyser--and a nervous Mr. Poyser, at that--is the first ...	[ "WHEN the dinner was over, and the first draughts from the great cask of\nbirthday ale were brought up, room was made for the broad Mr. Poyser at\nthe side of the table, and two chairs were placed at the head. It had\nbeen settled very definitely what Mr. Poyser was to do when the young\nsquire should appear, and f...
161	507_chapter_25	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Let the games begin! Since "the great dance was not to begin until eight o'clock," the Donnithornes have set up some races, contests, and other amusements to help their guests pass the time . By modern standards, though, Donnithorne and Company have some weird game ideas. Like the "Climb a Slippery Pole Challenge." Lik...	[ "THE great dance was not to begin until eight o'clock, but for any lads\nand lasses who liked to dance on the shady grass before then, there was\nmusic always at hand--for was not the band of the Benefit Club capable\nof playing excellent jigs, reels, and hornpipes? And, besides this,\nthere was a grand band hired ...
162	507_chapter_26	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	There are some grand rooms on the Donnithorne estate, but the dance is being held in one of the grandest: the entrance hall. There are "stucco angels, trumpets, and flower-wreaths on the lofty ceiling, and great medallions of miscellaneous heroes on the walls, alternating with statues in niches" . Seth isn't in the bes...	[ "ARTHUR had chosen the entrance-hall for the ballroom: very wisely, for\nno other room could have been so airy, or would have had the advantage\nof the wide doors opening into the garden, as well as a ready entrance\ninto the other rooms. To be sure, a stone floor was not the pleasantest\nto dance on, but then, mos...
163	507_chapter_27	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	That's all for the festivities, folks. It's now "beyond the middle of August--nearly three weeks after the birthday feast" . Confetti's been swept up, dizziness has been slept off, and yet the weather is still beautiful as can be. When this chapter opens, even the wind "seemed only part of the general gladness because ...	[ "IT was beyond the middle of August--nearly three weeks after the\nbirthday feast. The reaping of the wheat had begun in our north midland\ncounty of Loamshire, but the harvest was likely still to be retarded\nby the heavy rains, which were causing inundations and much damage\nthroughout the country. From this last...
164	507_chapter_28	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	After waiting in tortured suspense, Adam "perceived a gleam of consciousness in Arthur's face" . Arthur's not in the best of shape. Adam checks to see how he is, offers him water, then checks again to see how he is. He'd better. As Arthur tells him, "that blow of yours must have come against me like a battering-ram" . ...	[ "IT was only a few minutes measured by the clock--though Adam always\nthought it had been a long while--before he perceived a gleam of\nconsciousness in Arthur's face and a slight shiver through his frame.\nThe intense joy that flooded his soul brought back some of the old\naffection with it.", "\"Do you feel any...
165	507_chapter_29	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Amazingly, Arthur slept quite well after the dust-up, "for sleep comes to the perplexed--if the perplexed are weary enough" . When Arthur wakes up, his first thoughts have to do with Adam. Arthur's a generous guy, the type who likes "to make all offenses forgotten in benefits" . But he realizes how profoundly he has hu...	[ "ARTHUR did not pass a sleepless night; he slept long and well. For sleep\ncomes to the perplexed--if the perplexed are only weary enough. But at\nseven he rang his bell and astonished Pym by declaring he was going to\nget up, and must have breakfast brought to him at eight.", "\"And see that my mare is saddled a...
166	507_chapter_30	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It's "the next Sunday," and Adam has to find a way to get the letter to Hetty . The Bedes aren't a family of connivers or schemers, but sometimes a Bede's got to do what a Bede's got to do. So Adam goes home with the Poysers after church, falls into step alongside Hetty, and pigeonholes her with "something partic'lar t...	[ "THE next Sunday Adam joined the Poysers on their way out of church,\nhoping for an invitation to go home with them. He had the letter in\nhis pocket, and was anxious to have an opportunity of talking to Hetty\nalone. He could not see her face at church, for she had changed her\nseat, and when he came up to her to ...
167	507_chapter_31	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Now after all that, Hetty gets to read the infamous letter. She bolts her bedroom door, takes the letter out, and smells a "faint scent of roses, which made her feel as if Arthur were close to her" . This must be a good sign, right? Wrong. Yeah, Arthur begins the letter by telling Hetty "I have spoken truly when I have...	[ "IT was no longer light enough to go to bed without a candle, even in\nMrs. Poyser's early household, and Hetty carried one with her as she\nwent up at last to her bedroom soon after Adam was gone, and bolted the\ndoor behind her.", "Now she would read her letter. It must--it must have comfort in it. How\nwas Ada...
168	507_chapter_32	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Okay, who remembers that stranger on a horse from Chapters 1 and 2? He's back. There has been "much excited discussion" about this fellow's return at the local inn . Now, Mrs. Poyser--the heroine of this chapter--doesn't frequent the local inn. But the news of the stranger's reappearance strikes her even more strongly ...	[ "THE next Saturday evening there was much excited discussion at the\nDonnithorne Arms concerning an incident which had occurred that very\nday--no less than a second appearance of the smart man in top-boots said\nby some to be a mere farmer in treaty for the Chase Farm, by others to\nbe the future steward, but by M...
169	507_chapter_33	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Harvest time in Hayslope has now come and gone--"the apples and nuts were gathered and stored; the scent of whey departed from the farmhouses" . And by now, it's common knowledge that Mrs. Poyser threw a great big monkey wrench in Squire Donnithorne's scheme. Even Mr. Irwine thinks it a piece of "irregular justice" . A...	[ "THE barley was all carried at last, and the harvest suppers went by\nwithout waiting for the dismal black crop of beans. The apples and\nnuts were gathered and stored; the scent of whey departed from the\nfarm-houses, and the scent of brewing came in its stead. The woods\nbehind the Chase, and all the hedgerow tre...
170	507_chapter_34	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It's now "a dry Sunday, and really a pleasant day for the second of November" . For Pete's sake, is every day in Adam Bede "really a pleasant day?" Well, this one isn't pleasant for everyone. Mrs. Poyser is laid up with a cold, and Hetty has taken the Poyser boys to church on her own. And Adam joins them on the way bac...	[ "IT was a dry Sunday, and really a pleasant day for the 2d of November. There was no sunshine, but the clouds were high, and the wind was so\nstill that the yellow leaves which fluttered down from the hedgerow elms\nmust have fallen from pure decay. Nevertheless, Mrs. Poyser did not go\nto church, for she had taken...
171	507_chapter_35	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It's winter in Hayslope--"a busy time for Adam" this year . No, Adam isn't a mall Santa or a history professor with a big, big pile of papers to grade over the break. He's engaged. He's adding rooms to his house, anticipating his wedding, and mooning over Hetty like there's no tomorrow. Hetty, meanwhile, seems a bit sh...	[ "IT was a busy time for Adam--the time between the beginning of November\nand the beginning of February, and he could see little of Hetty, except\non Sundays. But a happy time, nevertheless, for it was taking him nearer\nand nearer to March, when they were to be married, and all the little\npreparations for their n...
172	507_chapter_36	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Right off the bat, we're told that Hetty is on a "long, lonely journey, with sadness in the heart" . It would be bad enough if she had plenty of money, but she's taking a public coach and counting her shillings. To make matters worse, her coachman jokes about "the sweetheart as you've left behind"--never guessing that ...	[ "A LONG, lonely journey, with sadness in the heart; away from the\nfamiliar to the strange: that is a hard and dreary thing even to the\nrich, the strong, the instructed; a hard thing, even when we are called\nby duty, not urged by dread.", "What was it then to Hetty? With her poor narrow thoughts, no longer\nmel...
173	507_chapter_37	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Hetty's nervous, Hetty's lonely, Hetty's running out of cash. And now she's sick--"too ill even to think with any distinctness of the evils that were to come" . As she lies in bed, she imagines the scandal that would ensue if she went back to Hayslope. She would be a charity case, without money, without anyone's compas...	[ "HETTY was too ill through the rest of that day for any questions to be\naddressed to her--too ill even to think with any distinctness of the\nevils that were to come. She only felt that all her hope was crushed,\nand that instead of having found a refuge she had only reached the\nborders of a new wilderness where ...
174	507_chapter_38	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Meanwhile, back in Hayslope, everything is pretty much normal. True, people have started wondering why Hetty has been gone so long. Did she find it "pleasanter to be with Dinah than any one could have supposed?" . But Adam is getting impatient. He's got a wedding to plan, dang it. So Adam sets off one Sunday morning to...	[ "THE first ten days after Hetty's departure passed as quietly as any other days with the family at the Hall Farm, and with Adam at his daily work. They had expected Hetty to stay away a week or ten days at least, perhaps a little longer if Dinah came back with her, because there might then be something to detain th...
175	507_chapter_39	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Might as well call this chapter "Fear and Loathing in Broxton Parsonage." Reeling from "the double suffering of certain and uncertain sorrow," Adam has tracked down Mr. Irwine, the one person in Hayslope who seems to have all the answers . Or enough of them, anyway. Adam is shown into Mr. Irwine's study. The good clerg...	[ "ADAM turned his face towards Broxton and walked with his swiftest\nstride, looking at his watch with the fear that Mr. Irwine might be gone\nout--hunting, perhaps. The fear and haste together produced a state of\nstrong excitement before he reached the rectory gate, and outside it he\nsaw the deep marks of a recen...
176	507_chapter_40	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The last chapter was harrowing enough, but Eliot opens this one by killing off a character. Who is it? Mrs. Poyser? Seth? Dinah? Which one of these kind, good people will be taken from us? Which one will--oh wait, it's old Squire Donnithorne, "found dead in his bed" . Nobody liked him anyway. Phew. When Mr. Irwine gets...	[ "MR. IRWINE returned from Stoniton in a post-chaise that night, and the\nfirst words Carroll said to him, as he entered the house, were, that\nSquire Donnithorne was dead--found dead in his bed at ten o'clock that\nmorning--and that Mrs. Irwine desired him to say she should be awake\nwhen Mr. Irwine came home, and ...
177	507_chapter_41	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Back to Stoniton. We know this is the last place anyone wants to be, but it's where Adam Bede is taking us. Chapter 41 opens in an "upper room in a dull Stoniton street" . This is where a distressed Adam Bede and a concerned Bartle Massey are spending the night. Can't we all just go home? No, we can't. Because here's M...	[ "AN upper room in a dull Stoniton street, with two beds in it--one laid\non the floor. It is ten o'clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall\nopposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled\nwith the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is\npretending to read, while he is really...
178	507_chapter_42	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	So here we are, once more, in Adam's "dull upper room" in Stoniton . Heavens, will we never leave this dreadful town? Adam himself feels trapped, crushed by the "irremediable evil and suffering" that surrounds Hetty's crime . Yet there is a silver lining. Adam now looks "back on all the previous years as if they had be...	[ "AT one o'clock the next day, Adam was alone in his dull upper room;\nhis watch lay before him on the table, as if he were counting the\nlong minutes. He had no knowledge of what was likely to be said by\nthe witnesses on the trial, for he had shrunk from all the particulars\nconnected with Hetty's arrest and accus...
179	507_chapter_43	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Since we're in Stoniton, might as well see the sights. And one of those sights is the courthouse, a "grand old hall" full of stained glass and old armor and miserable George Eliot characters . Everyone is here, Adam, Irwine, all our Stoniton tourists, waiting for Hetty's verdict. Adam has taken a place beside Hetty, or...	[ "THE place fitted up that day as a court of justice was a grand old hall,\nnow destroyed by fire. The midday light that fell on the close pavement\nof human heads was shed through a line of high pointed windows,\nvariegated with the mellow tints of old painted glass. Grim dusty armour\nhung in high relief in front ...
180	507_chapter_44	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Welcome back, Arthur. Sure, we've just spent the past five chapters watching Hetty's and Adam's lives implode. But Arthur hasn't. In fact, when this chapter opens, he's just received news of his grandfather's death. He reacts: "Poor Grandfather! I wish I could have got to be with him when he died" . But he won't let it...	[ "When Arthur Donnithorne landed at Liverpool and read the letter from\nhis Aunt Lydia, briefly announcing his grand-father's death, his first\nfeeling was, \"Poor Grandfather! I wish I could have got to him to be\nwith him when he died. He might have felt or wished something at the\nlast that I shall never know now...
181	507_chapter_45	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	What kind of person would actually want to spend time in the Stoniton prison? Hang on, because you're about to find out. As Chapter 45 opens, a woman with a "sweet clear" voice is asking to enter the Stoniton jail . An elderly gentleman outside the jail remembers this woman "preaching on the village green at Hayslope,"...	[ "NEAR sunset that evening an elderly gentleman was standing with his back\nagainst the smaller entrance-door of Stoniton jail, saying a few last\nwords to the departing chaplain. The chaplain walked away, but the\nelderly gentleman stood still, looking down on the pavement and stroking\nhis chin with a ruminating a...
191	507_chapter_46	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It is now "Sunday morning, when the church bells in Stoniton were ringing for the morning service" . But Bartle Massey and Adam are still in that apartment. Do they never leave? Should they just bring in a laugh track and start doing a sitcom called Massey? You know, like Seinfeld, except they visit the jail instead of...	[ "ON Sunday morning, when the church bells in Stoniton were ringing for\nmorning service, Bartle Massey re-entered Adam's room, after a short\nabsence, and said, \"Adam, here's a visitor wants to see you.\"", "Adam was seated with his back towards the door, but he started up and\nturned round instantly, with a flu...
182	507_chapter_47	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Hetty is approaching the scaffold, where she will be hanged before a "waiting watching multitude" . But Dinah is with her, and compassionately exhorts her to "pray without ceasing to God" . All at once, without warning, Hetty shrieks. And the crowd cries out, too. Why is everyone shouting? "It was a shout of sudden exc...	[ "IT was a sight that some people remembered better even than their own\nsorrows--the sight in that grey clear morning, when the fatal cart\nwith the two young women in it was descried by the waiting watching\nmultitude, cleaving its way towards the hideous symbol of a deliberately\ninflicted sudden death.", "All ...
183	507_chapter_48	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Here we are again, back in the Hayslope woods. We've got two men "walking from opposite points towards the same scene, drawn thither by a common memory" . Let's kill the drama; those "two men" are Arthur and Adam. Arthur is trying to face the future and commit himself to "a sad resolution" . Adam has decided to skip to...	[ "THE next day, at evening, two men were walking from opposite points\ntowards the same scene, drawn thither by a common memory. The scene was\nthe Grove by Donnithorne Chase: you know who the men were.", "The old squire's funeral had taken place that morning, the will had been\nread, and now in the first breathin...
184	507_chapter_49	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Jump forward to "the first autumnal afternoon sunshine of 1801" . It's a fine day on the Hall Farm. Mrs. Poyser is milking the cows, Totty is playing with her baby doll, and Dinah is back to lend a hand. Not for long, though. Dinah is once again thinking of leaving Hayslope. Her aunt already has plenty of help around t...	[ "THE first autumnal afternoon sunshine of 1801--more than eighteen months\nafter that parting of Adam and Arthur in the Hermitage--was on the\nyard at the Hall Farm; and the bull-dog was in one of his most excited\nmoments, for it was that hour of the day when the cows were being driven\ninto the yard for their aft...
185	507_chapter_50	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Adam and Dinah approach the Bede cottage. They're talking, mostly about Dinah's desire to do good works and "find the fullness of the Divine Presence" . Not quite a lovers' topic, but what can you do? But when Adam talks of what a blessing Dinah's company is, the poor lass blushes to "a deep rose-colour" . Still, they ...	[ "ADAM did not ask Dinah to take his arm when they got out into the lane.\nHe had never yet done so, often as they had walked together, for he had\nobserved that she never walked arm-in-arm with Seth, and he thought,\nperhaps, that kind of support was not agreeable to her. So they walked\napart, though side by side,...
186	507_chapter_51	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As much as she'd love to have Dinah stay, Lisbeth is getting over her sickness. So she tries a different tactic. When the two of them are alone, Lisbeth starts talking about her sons. Take that Adam: "He'd be a fine husband for anybody, be they who they will" . Cough cough cough cough... But Dinah escapes this conversa...	[ "LISBETH'S touch of rheumatism could not be made to appear serious enough\nto detain Dinah another night from the Hall Farm, now she had made up\nher mind to leave her aunt so soon, and at evening the friends must\npart. \"For a long while,\" Dinah had said, for she had told Lisbeth of\nher resolve.", "\"Then it'...

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