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187	507_chapter_52	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Adam has arrived at the Hall Farm at "about three o'clock" . And everybody has gone to church, except for Dinah. He finds her inside. And they have one of those super-quiet, super-polite, super-awkward moments before Adam finally blurts out what he wants to. Adam loves Dinah with his "whole heart and soul. I love you n...	[ "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_chapter_53	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As Chapter 53 opens, Adam is "going homeward, on Wednesday evening, in the six o'clock sunlight" . Then he hears music. Apparently, a whole bunch of Hayslope laborers have gathered at the Hall Farm, along with our old friends Bartle Massey and Mr. Craig. Martin Poyser is presiding, serving out meat and finding it pleas...	[ "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_chapter_54	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Oh, the things we tell ourselves for love. Dinah, apparently, is long gone, but Adam feels "hope rather than discouragement" . As Adam imagines it, Dinah is wrestling with her feelings. She's in doubt, but she'll come around. Or will she? The more Dinah stays away, the more anxious Adam gets. He even stays up "late one...	[ "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_chapter_55	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Time for George Eliot to get into Disney mode! Adam Bede is wrapping up with a big marriage extravaganza, just like any number of your favorite animated features. Cue the song and dance and the talking frogs. It's "little more than a month" after the events of our last chapter . Wow, Adam and Dinah didn't waste any tim...	[ "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...
192	507_epilogue	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	And now, it's time to party like it's 1807. That's where Eliot's "Epilogue" lands us, in a Hayslope that has changed for the better. Now we're in "Adam Bede's timber-yard, which used to be Jonathan Burge's, and the mellow evening light is falling on the pleasant house with the buff walls and the soft gray thatch" . Ada...	[ "IT is near the end of June, in 1807. The workshops have been shut\nup half an hour or more in Adam Bede's timber-yard, which used to\nbe Jonathan Burge's, and the mellow evening light is falling on the\npleasant house with the buff walls and the soft grey thatch, very much\nas it did when we saw Adam bringing in t...
137	507_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The author promises to recreate a vision of the past for the reader -- a picture of Jonathan Burge's carpentry workshop as it existed in the town of Hayslope in Loamshire, England, in 1799. After mentioning the shop itself, she focuses on a tall, sturdy young workman, Adam Bede. Several other men, including Adam's brot...	[ "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.	The traveler who had noticed Adam Bede stops at the village inn and speaks with the innkeeper, Mr. Casson, learning that Dinah is to preach. Curious, he goes to the green to observe. The townspeople of Hayslope -- only two of whom are Methodists -- gather in knots near the Green but stay aloof from the proceedings; the...	[ "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.	Seth sees Dinah home after the meeting; she is staying with her uncle and aunt, the Poysers, at the Hall Farm. He asks her to marry him, feeling her to be a beautiful soul, full of goodness. Dinah gently refuses, explaining that she wants to live without a family. Her whole life is dedicated to serving others, and she ...	[ "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.	Adam reaches the cottage where he lives with his brother and their elderly parents. His mother tells him that his father, who is apparently an irresponsible alcoholic, has wandered off to a tavern in the next town, Treddleston, instead of making a coffin which he had contracted to finish that day. Adam is very angry an...	[ "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.	The scene shifts to Broxton Parsonage, home of the Reverend Mr. Irwine, the local Church of England clergyman. The rector is playing chess with his mother when Joshua Rann, the Hayslope parish clerk, arrives. He tells Mr. Irwine that the Methodists -- especially Dinah -- are causing religious dissension in the town. At...	[ "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...
193	507_chapters_6-9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	For the most part, Chapter 6 describes daily life at the Hall Farm. The house itself is an old manor converted into a farmhouse in which Mr. and Mrs. Poyser, their three children, Mr. Poyser's niece Hetty Sorrel, and a couple of domestic servants live. It is the best run farm on the estate; Mr. Poyser is a very good fa...	[ "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 ...
146	507_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The scene shifts to Adam's cottage. Lisbeth has laid out the corpse and done everything possible to make the bedchamber where it lies clean and respectable. Her grief for her husband is so intense that it approaches despair, and when Seth tries to comfort her as she sits in the kitchen rocking and moaning, she angrily ...	[ "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.	Dinah comes down to the kitchen at dawn the following morning. Adam is already in the workshop and comes out to see who is there. Dinah explains her presence, and the two young people take a long look at one another: Adam admires Dinah's beauty, and Dinah is impressed by the strong young man. She blushes in spite of he...	[ "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...
194	507_chapters_12-13	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On the same morning as described in the previous chapter, Arthur decides to go on a week-long fishing trip. He discovers, however, that his horse is lame and then resolves just to visit a neighbor, taking his servant's horse. He knows that Hetty will be at the Chase taking needlework lessons from the lady's maid at abo...	[ "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...
195	507_chapters_14-15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	While Hetty is parting with Arthur, Dinah is taking her leave of the Bedes. When she and Seth are gone, Adam and his mother talk about her. Lisbeth approves of Dinah so much that she hints that Adam ought to marry her, but Adam ignores her. Dinah and Seth, meanwhile, encounter Hetty on her way back from the Chase. Seth...	[ "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...
152	507_chapter_16	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Arthur sets out early the next morning to carry through his resolution of confessing to Mr. Irwine. On the way, he meets Adam, and they talk for a while of Adam's prospects. Arthur offers to lend Adam enough money to set himself up in business; Adam is grateful but puts the prospect off into the indefinite future. They...	[ "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.	This chapter, entitled "In Which the Story Pauses a Little" does not advance the plot at all. The author says she intends to tell the truth about people and not to idealize or sentimentalize them. She says she finds more to love in simple, ignorant people, even though they may be vulgar, than in strict idealists or soc...	[ "\"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.	The action opens at the Poysers' farm, where the family is preparing for church. The walk across the fields to town is described, as are the social and religious customs these simple people observe on a typical Sunday morning. Thias Bede's funeral is held before the regular service, and he is buried in the churchyard. ...	[ "\"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.	The next morning, Adam sets off to work on repairs on a country house. His mind is occupied with Hetty; with his drunken father gone, his burden of responsibilities is lightened, and he can begin to think of marrying within another year or so. He plans to set up a little business on the side; he and Seth will make furn...	[ "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.	When Adam comes home from work, his mother is her usual querulous self, but he brushes off her complaints and declares that he must he left free to do what he thinks is right. He puts on his best clothes and goes to the Hall Farm, where he encounters Mrs. Poyser. She tells him that Hetty is in the garden with Totty and...	[ "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.	Adam arrives at Bartle Massey's school and waits until the evening's lessons are over. Bartle's students are boys and men of the town to whom he imparts some elementary skills in reading, writing, and "cal'clating"; the author gives humorous portraits of several of them. Adam and Bartle go into the latter's house. A do...	[ "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...
196	507_chapters_22-26	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	About a month passes, Arthur's twenty-first birthday dawns clear and warm, and all the tenants of the estate prepare for a day of celebration: the heir has come of age. At the Hall Farm, Hetty is dressing for the party. We discover that she has received some pearl and garnet earrings from Arthur and that she thinks Art...	[ "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 ...
197	507_chapters_27-28	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Book IV opens three weeks after the birthday celebration. Adam is superintending some repairs at the Chase Farm this day, and toward evening he has to pass through the grove in which Hetty and Arthur have been meeting. As he walks along, he suddenly sees the pair a short distance before him; they are kissing. When they...	[ "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...
165	507_chapter_29	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When Arthur rises the next morning, he is deeply troubled. He sits at home for a while and then goes riding, and all the time his mind is turning over the situation with Hetty. He feels guilty about deceiving Adam and about leading Hetty to hope for marriage, but he dodges his own guilt, unwilling to accuse himself of ...	[ "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...
198	507_chapters_30-31	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next Sunday, Adam gets himself invited to the Hall Farm; he has resolved to give Hetty the letter. The two walk in the garden, and Adam begins by saying that his intention is to protect Hetty from a man who doesn't intend to marry her. She is frightened and protests that Arthur does love her. Adam repeats his state...	[ "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 ...
168	507_chapter_32	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The old Squire pays a visit to the Hall Farm and tries to talk the Poysers into accepting some alterations on their farm which would not be to their advantage. After listening for a few moments, Mrs. Poyser breaks out in a tirade in which she tells the selfish, cold old man what his tenants think of him. He is thorough...	[ "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...
199	507_chapters_33-34	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In the days following his delivery of the letter, Adam is surprised to discover that Hetty treats him more kindly than before. She has become quieter in general and always seems pleased to see him. He concludes from Hetty's behavior that there was really nothing between Arthur and her after all. Jonathan Burge, meanwhi...	[ "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...
171	507_chapter_35	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It is early February. Seth has been to see Dinah at Snowfield, and she has again rejected his offer of marriage. Hetty and Adam are preparing for a March wedding and everything seems fine, though Hetty is sometimes subject to strange fits of depression. We soon find out why: Hetty is pregnant and close to despair. She ...	[ "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...
200	507_chapters_36-37	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Hetty's journey to Windsor is a difficult one; ignorant of traveling, driven by fear, worn by fatigue and hunger, she presses on for seven days, finally arriving at Windsor both physically and mentally exhausted. Here she is befriended by a kindly innkeeper and his wife who immediately note her condition and take pity ...	[ "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...
174	507_chapter_38	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When Hetty does not come back for two weeks, Adam decides to go to Snowfield to get her. He sets off in a state of high happiness, eager to see his prospective bride. But at Snowfield, he learns that Dinah has been in the city of Leeds for three weeks and that Hetty never arrived. Distracted with worry, he traces her a...	[ "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...
201	507_chapters_39-40	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When Adam arrives at the parsonage, Mr. Irwine is in conference with a strange man. After a few minutes Adam is admitted; he tells his story and then Mr. Irwine tells Adam that the strange man is a constable; he has brought a letter from Stoniton reporting that a girl answering Hetty's description is in prison there fo...	[ "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...
202	507_chapters_41-42	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The scene shifts to Stoniton on the eve of the trial. Adam and Bartle are lodged in a small room. Adam has changed greatly; he looks like a man who has just passed through a serious illness. Mr. Irwine comes in and reports that Hetty refuses to see Adam; indeed, since her arrest, she has refused to see or speak to anyo...	[ "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...
179	507_chapter_43	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The first thing Adam notices on entering the courtroom is Hetty herself. To Adam she is still beautiful; to less prejudiced eyes she appears hard and worn. Two witnesses give testimony. One says that Hetty had borne the baby in her house and had then run off with it the following day. The other reports finding the dead...	[ "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.	Arthur sets out for home from Liverpool. He is in fine spirits; he has just come into his property, and the future looks sunny. He had heard that Adam was to marry Hetty and had been pleased; that affair apparently has ended well. He feels that his life is just beginning. When he arrives at the Chase, he pauses to comf...	[ "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.	As evening comes on after the trial, Dinah appears outside the prison. She encounters the gentleman who had watched her from horseback on the day she preached at Hayslope and through him gains admittance to see Hetty. She finds the girl huddled up in a heap. Hetty rises, takes a step forward; Dinah embraces the poor cr...	[ "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...
203	507_chapters_46-47	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next morning, Dinah comes to tell Adam that Hetty has repented and now wants to see him. Adam has not yet given up hope of a pardon, but he promises to come the next morning -- the day of the execution -- if no pardon has been granted by then. He and Bartle watch through the night; there is no news, and early in th...	[ "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...
183	507_chapter_48	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next evening, Adam is walking through the grove at the Chase. Adam though still sad, has reconciled himself to accepting his fate, but he and the Poysers have decided, out of shame, to move away from their homes on the estate. Adam and Arthur meet by chance in the grove and go to the Hermitage to talk. Arthur has b...	[ "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...
204	507_chapters_49-50	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Book VI begins after a lapse of eighteen months. The scene opens in the Poyser kitchen: Mrs. Poyser is attempting to convince Dinah, who has been living at the Hall Farm for some time, not to go back to Snowfield. Dinah replies that she must resist the temptations of ease and luxury and minister to the poor; she appear...	[ "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...
205	507_chapters_51-52	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Dinah goes back to the farm that evening, but not before Lisbeth has probed her with questions about Adam. Lisbeth tells Seth that she thinks Dinah loves Adam, but Seth tells her to forget about trying to bring them together; as far as he can see, Adam feels nothing but fraternal affection for Dinah. Lisbeth is not to ...	[ "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'...
188	507_chapter_53	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The following Wednesday, Adam goes to the Hall Farm expecting to see Dinah. The annual harvest supper is being held, and Adam joins the group of farmhands at the table. The author gives portraits of some of the laborers and then describes the ritual of the Harvest Song. After the song is ended, Mr. Craig gives his view...	[ "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...
206	507_chapters_54-55	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When Dinah has been gone for six weeks, Adam begins to grow impatient, and he decides to go to Snowfield in search of her. When he arrives, Dinah is off preaching in the next town. Adam rides to the top of a hill overlooking the town and waits to intercept Dinah on her way home. After an hour's wait, Adam sees Dinah mo...	[ "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...
192	507_epilogue	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On a June day some years later, Seth and Dinah, with Dinah's two children, are waiting for Adam to come home. Arthur, now a colonel, has returned from the wars weakened by a fever, and Adam has gone to see him. Dinah expresses her sympathy for Arthur, and for Hetty, who died just as her term of exile ended. Adam appear...	[ "IT is near the end of June, in 1807. The workshops have been shut\nup half an hour or more in Adam Bede's timber-yard, which used to\nbe Jonathan Burge's, and the mellow evening light is falling on the\npleasant house with the buff walls and the soft grey thatch, very much\nas it did when we saw Adam bringing in t...
137	507_book_1,_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The narrator promises to show the reader a workshop as it was in Hayslope on June 18, 1799. Inside the workshop, Adam Bede; his brother, Seth Bede; Wiry Ben; and two other carpenters chat as they complete their work for the day. Seth finishes a door he has been working on, but he forgets to put panels in the door, beca...	[ "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_book_1,_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In the village, people gather to hear Dinah's preaching. The tavern manager, Mr. Casson, comes outside to see what the commotion is, and he meets a stranger on a horse. He and the stranger have a discussion about Dinah, and Mr. Casson says he believes it is inappropriate for a woman to preach on the village green. As D...	[ "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_book_1,_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Seth walks Dinah home after her preaching. Dinah plans to go back to Snowfield to take care of an ailing old woman and regrets that she cannot stay in Hayslope to be with her aunt and to look after Hetty Sorrel, for whom she says she has been praying. Seth remarks that it is too bad Adam is in love with Hetty. Dinah sa...	[ "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_book_1,_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Adam and Gyp arrive home, where Adam's mother, Lisbeth, waits for them. Adam discovers that his father, who is a drunkard, has gone out without building the coffin he had promised to build for a family in town. After railing against his father, Adam stays up all night to finish the coffin, despite Seth's offer of help ...	[ "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_book_1,_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The narrator takes the reader to the home of Mr. Aldophous Irwine, the rector of Broxton, where Hayslope is located. Mr. Irwine is playing chess with his mother, Mrs. Irwine, a socialite. Mr. Irwine is a bachelor because he has chosen to take care of his mother and two unmarried sisters, one of whom is chronically ill,...	[ "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_book_1,_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Dinah repairs linens at her aunt's home, called Hall Farm. Mrs. Poyser, Dinah's aunt, scolds the maid for being lazy, even though the maid has been very industrious all day. She laughs when reminiscing about how much Dinah looks like the aunt who raised her after her mother died. Mr. Irwine and Captain Donnithorne arri...	[ "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.	Captain Donnithorne and Mrs. Poyser go to the dairy, where Captain Donnithorne first lays eyes on Hetty. A beautiful young girl, Hetty is the seventeen-year-old niece of Mr. Poyser. The Poysers took her in after she was orphaned, and she lives with them at Hall Farm and helps Mrs. Poyser with household chores. Captain ...	[ "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.	While the others are in the dairy, Mr. Irwine chats with Dinah and asks her how she became a preacher. Dinah explains that she was once going to a nearby village with a preacher when that preacher fell ill. Because she felt moved by God, she stood in for him and has been a preacher even since. She explains that she cho...	[ "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.	As Hetty continues to churn the butter, she daydreams about Captain Donnithorne and the lifestyle his wealth can afford. Although she is aware that Adam is in love with her, she does not return the affection because she is not attracted to his poor and simple lifestyle. She prefers the dashing figure cut by Captain Don...	[ "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.	Seth strives to comfort Lisbeth, who grieves for her dead husband to such an extreme that she refuses to clean up or to eat and often expresses her wish that she were dead with him. Dinah comes to visit the Bedes to help Lisbeth in her grief. Although Lisbeth resists Dinah's kindness at first, she gradually comes aroun...	[ "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.	Early in the morning, Adam rises to begin working and he hears Dinah in the kitchen, sweeping and preparing breakfast. He does not know who is in the house because he was asleep when Dinah arrived, and he secretly hopes that it is Hetty. Then he comes into the kitchen and meets Dinah, paying attention to her for the fi...	[ "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 dresses for the day and decides not to be at home when Hetty arrives to see the housekeeper. Resolving to go on a trip, he goes to the stable to order his horse ready but learns that she is lame. Then the captain chooses to visit a friend for lunch and not be back until after Hetty has left. After l...	[ "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 walks home by the same route in the woods through which she came. At every turn, she hopes and prays to see Captain Donnithorne, but he is not there. She becomes so anxious that she begins to cry. She finally comes upon Captain Donnithorne, who is waiting for her. When Captain Donnithorne sees Hetty's tears, he a...	[ "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.	Dinah bids farewell to the Bede family, and Seth walks with her most of the way home. Adam and Lisbeth watch them leave, speculating on whether Dinah will ever come to love Seth. Adam thinks she will, and Lisbeth thinks not. Along the way, Dinah and Seth meet Hetty, and Seth turns back to his own home after shaking han...	[ "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.	In her room, Hetty sneaks out some candles that she purchased at the fair and lights them so that she can see herself in the mirror. She puts on some large, glass earrings and a black shawl in an attempt to make herself look like a grand lady. She struts around the room daydreaming about the life she could have as Capt...	[ "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.	Captain Donnithorne sets out to have breakfast with Mr. Irwine and tell him about what happened with Hetty. On the road, he meets Adam, who is walking to work. Adam treats Captain Donnithorne with great respect, in part because of his rank and because he believes he will be a good manager. They recall the days when Cap...	[ "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.	The narrator pauses in the story to justify Mr. Irwine's character. The characters in this novel, the narrator claims, are true to life and not the more sophisticated, better educated, more moralistic characters that her lady readers might want. Mr. Irwine is well loved in Hayslope, the narrator says, and is more loved...	[ "\"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.	The Poysers go to church to celebrate the Sunday Mass and the funeral service for Thias Bede. On the way, the Poysers talk about Hetty, Dinah, and the Methodists. Mr. Poyser meditates on how pleased he is with Mrs. Poyser's ability to run the farm. Hetty dresses herself especially, hoping to see Captain Donnithorne the...	[ "\"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.	Adam walks to work and thinks about Hetty. With the death of Thias Bede, Adam has a better chance of making some money to marry. He decides that he and Seth should start making high-quality furniture in their spare time to make some extra money. He also decides that he will go to Hall Farm that evening after work to se...	[ "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 dresses in his Sunday best and heads out for Hall Farm. Lisbeth chases after him, harassing him about why he is wearing his good clothes, and Adam tells her that he will do what he wants with respect to Hetty. Adam goes to Mrs. Poyser in the dairy because the rest of the household is outside gathering the hay to t...	[ "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 goes to visit Bartle Massey, the schoolmaster. Massey teaches several of the adults in the community how to read, and he is gentlest with those for whom the reading is the hardest. After class is over, Adam and Massey chat, and Massey excoriates Adam on his wanting to marry because, Massey says, women are nothing ...	[ "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.	Captain Donnithorne's coming-of-age party begins. As she gets ready, Hetty tries on the earrings Captain Donnithorne has given her and wears the locket with his hair in it that he has given her but keeps it under her dress. People from the parish, including the Poysers, begin to arrive, and the Chase, the Squire's home...	[ "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.	The tenants come in to dinner, and they argue over who is to sit at the head of the table. Adam sits with the tenants, even though, as a craftsman , he would normally sit at the lower table. He sees Hetty, who flirts with him because she knows Mary Burge, who loves Adam, is watching them	[ "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.	Captain Donnithorne comes in to the dinner, and Mr. Poyser delivers a speech thanking him for all he has done for the tenants and hoping that he will soon come into his inheritance. Captain Donnithorne gives an acceptance speech and then toasts the Squire and Adam. In his toast to Adam, he announces that Adam will be w...	[ "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.	Captain Donnithorne, Mr. Irwine, the Squire, Miss Lydia, and Mrs. Irwine, along with the Irwine sisters, take up their place on a raised dais near where the games are being played. Mrs. Irwine admires the party, the last she says she will likely live to see unless Captain Donnithorne soon marries. She tells him that if...	[ "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.	Adam stays for the dance at the request of Captain Donnithorne, even though Lisbeth urges him to come home with her. He only wants to dance with Hetty, who only wants to dance with Captain Donnithorne. When Adam goes to Hetty to claim her for the dance she has promised him, she is holding Totty. When they transfer Tott...	[ "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.	Hetty has been kinder to Adam, making him believe that perhaps she is coming to love him. Adam is overseeing work for the Squire, and he must travel to the Squire's residence, where Captain Donnithorne is staying. One evening, the day before Captain Donnithorne is to leave to meet up with his regiment, Adam encounters ...	[ "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.	A few minutes later, Captain Donnithorne regains consciousness, and Adam is so relieved that he rushes to help him. Together, they go back to the Hermitage. While Adam runs to get brandy from the main house, Captain Donnithorne picks up Hetty's handkerchief and shoves it into a trashcan, underneath the trash. When Adam...	[ "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.	Captain Donnithorne wakes the next morning and contemplates the events of the night before. He does not want to write the letter to Hetty because he does not want to hurt her. However, he convinces himself that he will do good for her in the future and that she will come to owe him for his good deeds and forgive him th...	[ "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.	Hetty worries about whether Adam will tell the Poysers about her affair with Captain Donnithorne. She is relieved when he says that he wants to see her alone. Adam tells her that Captain Donnithorne has told him that he never cared for her, but she does not believe him. He gives her the letter from Captain Donnithorne,...	[ "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 Captain Donnithorne. In it, he tells her that she will never be his wife, assures her that she would have been unhappy because of their class distinctions anyway, and promises her that he will always do for her what he can. Hetty hates him for his letter and believes that her peasant life wi...	[ "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.	The Squire comes to the Poysers to ask them to give up some of their farming land in exchange for some additional dairy land. The Squire wants the arrangement so that he can lease Chase Farm, and he flatters and wheedles in his attempt to get the Poysers to agree. Mrs. Poyser is furious and refuses the offer. She says ...	[ "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.	Because Mrs. Poyser refuses to exchange farmland for dairy land, the Squire is unable to rent out Chase Farm and is forced to take other measures. Villagers find this very amusing because the Squire is universally hated. Mr. Irwine also finds the situation funny, but he is careful not to laugh about it for fear of gett...	[ "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.	As he walks with her one afternoon, Adam tells Hetty about his new partnership in the carpentry business. Hetty believes this means he will marry Mr. Burge's daughter, and her vanity is offended. She begins to cry. Adam realizes her misunderstanding and believes she is crying out of love, so he proposes immediately, ev...	[ "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.	Hetty has been going about her work more obediently than usual, and Adam is pleased because he believes that she will make a good wife after all. He notices, however, that she is sometimes unhappy. Hetty goes to a nearby market town to get some things she needs for the wedding. On the way, she sobs and dreads a coming ...	[ "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 journeys to Windsor, where she expects to find Captain Donnithorne. Although she does not dare write to him, she feels that he will help her when he learns of her predicament. After a short time in the coach, Hetty realizes that her money and valuables will not be enough to carry her to Windsor. She is forced to ...	[ "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's return journey is miserable. She gives the innkeeper and his wife the earrings Captain Donnithorne gave her in exchange for a little money. Then she heads in the direction of home, although she does not really intend to go there. On the way, she thinks of going to see Dinah, but she cannot make up her mind to l...	[ "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.	Adam and the Poysers begin to worry about Hetty because she has been gone for so long. Adam decides to go to Snowfield to fetch her and hopefully bring Dinah back with them. He sets out in great spirits, but when he gets to Snowfield, the old woman with whom Dinah lives informs him that Dinah has been on a journey to L...	[ "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.	When Adam arrives at Mr. Irwine's, there is a visitor with Mr. Irwine. Adam goes in to see him after the visitor leaves and notices that Mr. Irwine is exceptionally agitated. After Adam tells him about the affair and that Hetty is now missing, Mr. Irwine reveals that the visitor has told him that Hetty is in prison for...	[ "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 to Hayslope and learns that the Squire has died in the night. At Stoniton, Adam stays to be close to Hetty, even though he cannot bear to visit her. Adam's family and the Poysers are told the news about Hetty from Mr. Irwine. Mr. Poyser is deeply shamed and has no compassion for Hetty, whereas Mrs. P...	[ "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.	Mr. Irwine visits Adam in the room he shares with Mr. Massey in Stoniton. Adam is very pale and haggard, and Mr. Irwine tries without success to comfort him. He tells Adam that Hetty does not wish to see anyone and does not want to see Adam. Mr. Irwine tells Adam that Captain Donnithorne has not yet returned, that Adam...	[ "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 waits in his room while Mr. Massey leaves to see the beginning of the trial. When he returns, Adam asks about the trial. Mr. Massey tells Adam about the testimony of Mr. Poyser, who is terribly upset. He also explains how Mr. Irwine helped Mr. Poyser from the courtroom when Mr. Poyser was close to collapsing. Adam...	[ "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.	Everyone notices Adam when he enters the courtroom because he looks so distraught. Taking a seat near Hetty, he looks at her, but she does not notice him. Sarah Stone, a Methodist widow from Stoniton, testifies that Hetty came to her house looking for lodging, and she agreed to take her in because Hetty looked so distr...	[ "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.	Captain Donnithorne journeys home after receiving a letter with news of his grandfather's death. After musing about what a good landlord he will be and how everyone will love him, his thoughts turn to Hetty, and how bad he feels for what happened. However, Captain Donnithorne is assured that her future is bright becaus...	[ "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.	Dinah arrives and Stoniton and goes immediately to the prison to see Hetty. There she encounters the stranger who listened to her in the opening preaching at Hayslope. He helps her gain entrance to the prison. Dinah holds Hetty for a long time after she arrives, and when she speaks, she tells Hetty that God is with her...	[ "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_book_5,_chapter_46	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Dinah goes to see Adam to ask him to visit Hetty before she is executed. He says he cannot until the very last moment, but he promises to come the morning of her death if there has been no stay of execution. In the morning, Adam prepares to go see Hetty and realizes that it is the day that they were supposed to be marr...	[ "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_book_5,_chapter_47	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Dinah rides out to the gallows with Hetty. At the sight of the crowd, Hetty clings to Dinah. They pray together and keep their eyes closed. The crowd is silent and stares and Dinah in awe. As they arrive at the gallows, a huge cry goes up from the crowd because a man has arrived on horseback. Captain Donnithorne arrive...	[ "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 chapter opens up the day after Hetty was scheduled to be executed; Adam and Captain Donnithorne each go for a walk in the woods at the Chase. They meet each other in the spot where they had their fight several months earlier. Adam does not excoriate Captain Donnithorne because he can see that Captain Donnithorne is...	[ "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 have passed since Adam and Captain Donnithorne talked in the Hermitage. Dinah and Mrs. Poyser quarrel because Dinah says she must go back to Snowfield to help the people there, and Mrs. Poyser wants her to stay. Adam arrives and asks Dinah to come home with him to visit Lisbeth, who is ailing and asks s...	[ "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 and Dinah walk to the Bedes together. On the way, Adam tells Dinah that he wishes she would stay and marry Seth, but he apologizes when Dinah becomes very agitated. Dinah instead asks after Captain Donnithorne, and Adam reports that Mr. Irwine read him part of a letter from him. Captain Donnithorne is very sad and...	[ "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.	Dinah takes her leave of Lisbeth. After bidding farewell, Lisbeth goes into the workshop where Seth is working on a box for Dinah, and she begins to berate him because Dinah is going away. Ignoring Seth's feelings for Dinah, she says she knows Dinah would stay if only Adam would marry her. Seth is appalled at the idea ...	[ "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.	Adam goes to Hall Farm while the others are at church so he can see Dinah alone. After he confesses his love for her, she admits that she loves him too. When he proposes, however, she says that she cannot marry him because she does not think it is God's will. Her fear is that if she lives with him, she will cease to fe...	[ "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_chapter_53	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Adam goes to the Harvest Supper at the Poysers. The Poysers have invited all their workers and others as well to come have a sumptuous meal and ale. Mr. Poyser is filled with good will as he watches the workers eat. Together, the table sings the harvest song, a drinking song with a set refrain in which all the other wo...	[ "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_chapter_54	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Adam cannot bear the suspense any longer, so he goes to Snowfield to find Dinah. As he rides, he remembers the trip he made to Snowfield to find Hetty, and it still makes him sad. He believes that Hetty's disgrace is a terrible, sorrowful event, but his love for Dinah is fuller because he has experienced that sorrow. D...	[ "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_chapter_55	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A month later, on a rainy November day, Dinah and Adam are married in a simple ceremony. All their friends are there and wish them the best. For Adam, the day recalls another day when he was to be married, but Dinah does not mind the tinge of sorrow on their wedding day. As he rides home after the ceremony, Mr. Irwine ...	[ "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 Workshop The narrator will magically use the ink of her pen as a mirror to show us the carpentry workshop of Jonathan Burge in the village of Hayslope in Loamshire, England, 1799. Five workmen there are busy, the most striking of them a tall strong man singing a hymn in a baritone voice as he finishes a mantelpiece...	[ "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.	The Preaching The stranger on horseback stops at the Donnithorne Arms to refresh himself. The tavern is run by Mr. Casson who used to be the butler for the old Squire Donnithorne. Mr. Casson tells the stranger about Hayslope and the principal characters in the town. People have started gathering on the Green to hear th...	[ "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.	After the Preaching Seth Bede walks Dinah Morris home. She is staying with her Aunt Poyser at Hall Farm. Seth is discouraged from his suit because Dinah's whole attention is on other people. She is a visionary and can tell from her prayers who needs help. For instance, she mentions that she is watching over Hetty Sorre...	[ "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...

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