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140	507_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Adam goes home to a thatched cottage where his mother Lisbeth Bede waits for him. She is tall, vigorous and white-haired. Adam asks for his father and wants to know if he finished the coffin that has to be delivered in the morning. Lisbeth tells him his father went to Treddleston to the tavern and hasn't come home. Ada...	[ "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 Rector The scene switches to Broxton Parsonage where Mr. Adolphus Irwine, the Church of England vicar of Broxton, Hayslope, and Blythe, is playing chess with his mother. The furnishings are not the best, and with a mother and two maiden sisters to support it seems Mr. Irwine just makes ends meet. Joshua Rann, the s...	[ "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.	The Hall Farm The Hall Farm where the Poysers live, tenants of old Squire Donnithorne, is run down but immaculately run, a model farm in Loamshire. It is lazy summertime, and the animals and children are roaming around the place, while the workers are busy. Pretty Hetty Sorrel is churning butter in the dairy but looks ...	[ "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 The freshness of the dairy favorably sets off Hetty's fresh seventeen-year-old beauty, and Arthur Donnithorne is attracted to her kittenish loveliness. Even Aunt Poyser likes to look at Hetty's beauty, though she is usually scolding her. Arthur mentions his birthday celebration in July and asks Hetty to reser...	[ "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.	A Vocation Both Dinah Morris and Mr. Irwine have a favorable opinion of one another at first glance, for they are both sincere and generous people. Irwine questions her about her life in the cotton-mill at Snowfield and her preaching She explains that there are women preachers among the Methodists, though it isn't comm...	[ "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.	Hetty's World The narrator decides to go beyond Hetty's pretty exterior to see what kind of a person she is inside. This chapter tracks her thoughts about what is going on around her, but unfortunately, the narrator concludes that Hetty does not have a very large range to her soul. She is mostly concerned with her own ...	[ "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.	Dinah Visits Lisbeth Lisbeth is stubborn in refusing help to lay out the corpse of her husband. She locks herself in a room with him and carefully prepares his body with the linen she has laid out for this day, for it is the last service she can do him. Adam is exhausted and falls asleep on a bench in the workshop, dre...	[ "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.	In the Cottage The next morning Dinah rises early in the Bede cottage and cleans the kitchen to prepare the breakfast. Adam hears her and at first imagines Hetty has come, then is surprised to see Dinah there. They introduce themselves and speak of Lisbeth. When Adam stares at Dinah, she is self-conscious as a woman fo...	[ "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.	In the Wood On the same morning, Arthur holds a discussion with himself and decides it is prudent that he should go on a week-long fishing trip to stay out of the way of Hetty. He approves of himself for his noble behavior but when he goes to the stable, he finds his horse has been lamed, and he cannot go. He uses anot...	[ "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.	Evening in the Wood Hetty can hardly keep her mind on her needlework in Mrs. Pomfret's room and hurries away after three hours there, hoping to see Arthur on the way home. She walks in the wood looking for him at every turn and just when she thinks he isn't coming, she bursts into tears. He comes around the corner, and...	[ "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.	The Return Home Seth and Dinah leave the Bede cottage for the Hall Farm, so Seth can say goodbye to Dinah. Lisbeth talks to Adam about Dinah, saying she wishes she could have her for a daughter-in-law. Lisbeth sees Dinah doesn't care for Seth, but she suggests that Adam could marry her. Adam defends Seth as worthy of D...	[ "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.	The Two Bed-Chambers Hetty and Dinah have rooms next to each other on the second story of the house. Hetty has locked herself in her room and taken out two candles, lighting them so she can see herself in an old blotched mirror. She admires herself more now that Captain Donnithorne is in love with her. Taking out some ...	[ "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.	Links Arthur Donnithorne rides out early to have breakfast with Mr. Irwine, thinking it will be easier to tell him about Hetty over breakfast. On the way there he sees Adam Bede and chats with him about his ambitions. Adam says he would like to manage timber and building, but he doesn't want to be partners with Mr. Bur...	[ "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.	Book Second Chapter 17: In Which the Story Pauses a Little This chapter is a time out from the plot as Eliot steps in as the author to explain her style of storytelling. She defends the realism of it and eschews being sentimental or using ideal character types. She is writing from "nature" and "fact" , as if she were i...	[ "\"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.	Church The Poyser family prepares for church on Sunday and walk as a family across the fields to Hayslope. The husband and wife gossip about the neighbors on the way, and Mr. Poyser itches to be working, since the day is fine. His wife lectures him about keeping the Sabbath. The children lag behind, playing in the fiel...	[ "\"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.	Adam on a Working Day Adam walks the next day to a job three miles away and thinks about his future. It looks more hopeful with his father gone. He thinks about Hetty and how he will be able to marry in another year or so by saving his money. He is strong and confident about himself but doesn't know if Hetty loves him....	[ "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 Visits the Hall Farm Lisbeth complains when her son puts on his best clothes to visit the Poysers. He asks his mother to be more resigned to his doing what he thinks best for himself. Lisbeth worries to herself that one day Hetty will be the mistress over her. Adam goes to the Hall Farm and meets Mrs. Poyser who s...	[ "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.	The Night-School and the Schoolmaster Bartle Massey is the old schoolteacher whose house is on the edge of the common. He is teaching reading to some adult learners who are not very bright. Adam watches, remembering the years he has been here. Bartle is gentle and patient with the men, who are learning to read to help ...	[ "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.	Going to the Birthday Feast In the hot pause of July when nature is lazy, the great cask of ale brewed on Arthur Donnithorne's birth is opened for his coming of age. All the people from Hayslope and Broxton are gathering at the Chase for dinner and games and a dance. Hetty has bought a few bits of finery for the occasi...	[ "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.	Dinner-Time Adam is told he is to sit upstairs in the cloisters at the table with the large tenants rather than with the workmen, and he apologizes to Seth and his mother. Seth says his honor is theirs. Adam has not yet given notice to Jonathan Burge, and he hopes they will not announce his new post before he has a cha...	[ "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.	The Health-Drinking Arthur and Mr. Irwine enter the cloister dining hall, and all the tenants stand up. Mr. Poyser makes his speech, saying that everyone is of one opinion about Arthur: "You speak fair an' y'act fair" . Arthur feels a slight twinge, but thinks he deserves the praise as being basically a good person. He...	[ "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.	The Games The games and races begin on the lawn at four o'clock, and Mrs. Irwine is to give out the prizes, sitting on a raised seat like a queen. Mrs. Irwine tells Arthur he must take a charming bride or she will be disappointed. She insists this bride be pretty and not silly. She surveys the crowd along with her son,...	[ "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.	The Dance The dance for the tenants is held in the entry hall of the house, with paper lanterns hung on green boughs. Lisbeth is jealous that Adam is staying for the dancing, whining that she is losing him, but he says it would be rude for him to leave. Hetty says she will leave the fourth dance for Adam. For the first...	[ "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.	Book Fourth Chapter 27: A Crisis Three weeks after Arthur's party, just before harvest, as the apples are falling in the orchards, the crisis that has been building erupts. Adam's hopes have been buoyed again, and he is working double, for the squire and Jonathan Burge. Hetty seems more serious and mature to Adam these...	[ "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.	A Dilemma Arthur regains consciousness and asks for water. Adam is sorry about the fight and tries to help Arthur get home, but he is weak, and asks for Adam's help in walking to the Hermitage, the house in the woods. Adam has never known that this place was furnished; Arthur has been using it for a personal retreat. H...	[ "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.	The Next Morning This chapter centers on the thoughts of Arthur on his last day before leaving. He gets up early and goes for a ride on his horse. He is upset about the loss of Adam's good opinion. He thinks that if he had done any other injury, he would have made it up to Adam with some gift, for he has a kind heart a...	[ "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.	The Delivery of the Letter Adam joins the Poysers on their walk home after church because he wants to talk to Hetty. She is afraid he means to tell on her, but Hetty is confident she can manipulate Adam to her own purposes. Hetty believes that Arthur will miss her and will come home at Christmas, as he said he might do...	[ "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.	In Hetty's Bed-Chamber Hetty waits until bedtime to read Arthur's letter. He says that it is hard on him, but he must say goodbye to her. They cannot be married because they live in different worlds, so they must part for good. If however, any trouble comes, he will do everything to help her. She can write to the addre...	[ "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.	Mrs. Poyser 'Has Her Say Out' The next day Squire Donnithorne visits the Poysers to make a deal with them. He has a possible tenant for the Chase Farm but the man wants more plough land. If the Poysers would give up some plough land, they could have more dairy land and then Mrs. Poyser could make more money with her da...	[ "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.	More Links It is harvest time, and Mrs. Poyser is the heroine of the valley for speaking her mind to the old squire. Mr. Irwine and his mother admire Mrs. Poyser for her backbone but doubt the old squire will be around much longer. Both Mrs. Poyser and Adam notice changes in Hetty after she receives the letter. She is ...	[ "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.	The Betrothal Adam walks Hetty home after church one Sunday in November. He asks her to take his arm. He is more impatient about her now and is waiting for a sign from Hetty to declare his love. He tells her his good news about becoming a partner with Jonathan Burge. Suddenly, she is alarmed, for she remembers that the...	[ "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.	The Hidden Dread Adam doesn't see much of Hetty during the winter between November and February because he is working two jobs and getting ready for the wedding in March. Two rooms are prepared for Hetty and Adam in the Bede home, so that Seth and Lisbeth can stay in the house. Adam does not know why Hetty seems depres...	[ "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.	Book Fifth Chapter 36: The Journey in Hope Hetty sets out with her little saved money, with no idea where Windsor is or how long it takes to get there. The coachman tells her Windsor is near London. She despairs and decides to take carriers' carts and farmer's wagons because the coach costs too much. On her own now wit...	[ "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.	The Journey in Despair Hetty is in bed the rest of the day, too ill to think. She has no hope left. The next day she tries to think of a plan. She cannot get any work in her condition. Remembering a starving unwed mother and child at Hayslope who had been sent to the parish workhouse, a fate to be feared, she longs to ...	[ "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.	The Quest The narrative switches to Adam's point of view. After Hetty has been gone for two weeks, the family begins to worry, and Adam decides to go to Snowfield to get her. Mrs. Poyser tells him to invite Dinah to come back too for the wedding. Adam starts his journey in hope for he has never been happier in his life...	[ "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.	The Tidings When Arthur arrives at the parsonage, he is kept waiting as Mr. Irwine talks to a strange man . When Adam is admitted, he tells Mr. Irwine that he has come to him for help because he looks up to him the most and must tell him some painful news. Mr. Irwine is looking at Adam strangely and has his hand on a l...	[ "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 Bitter Waters Spread When Mr. Irwine returns from Stoniton, his mother tells him Squire Donnithorne is dead. She does not know about the tragedy and rejoices that now her godson Arthur will be the new squire. Mr. Irwine does not send a letter to Arthur about the events because he will be home soon for his grandfath...	[ "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.	The Eve of the Trial In a rented room in Stoniton, Bartle Massey and Adam await the arrival of Mr. Irwine. Bartle pretends to read, but he is watching Adam who sits haggard and listless. Mr. Irwine comes from the prison where he and the chaplain were talking to Hetty. Adam has requested to see her before the trial, but...	[ "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.	The Morning of the Trial Adam does not go to the trial in the morning but waits till Bartle comes to him at lunchtime to hear about it. He has thought of seeing Hetty because it might melt her hardness if someone forgave her, but still he is afraid to see her in her changed state. The narrator says that the kind of unb...	[ "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.	The Verdict Adam Bede's tall figure entering the courtroom is striking. Even Mr. Irwine is surprised by the signs of suffering and grief about him. He goes to sit by Hetty's side, but she does not see him, for she stands with her head down, looking at her hands. Adam is looking to see whether she is different, but she ...	[ "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's Return Arthur's thoughts on returning to England are all about his grandfather whom he pities and thinks of kindly, and his new position. He is happy and on top of the world thinking that now he has come into his own. He thinks on all the benevolent acts he will accomplish, starting with the Irwines and the Be...	[ "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.	In the Prison Dinah Morris speaks to an older gentleman outside the prison. He is Colonel Townley, the gentleman on horseback who heard Dinah speak on Hayslope Green. He is a magistrate and gets Dinah in to Hetty's cell. She wants to stay with Hetty till the end. Colonel Townley thinks she is brave to stay in a jail ce...	[ "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.	The Hours of Suspense Bartle Massey announces a visitor to Adam in his Stoniton room where he awaits Hetty's execution. Dinah Morris comes to tell him that Hetty has repented and wants to see Adam, to ask his forgiveness before she dies. Adam, very haggard, says he cannot believe she has to die like that; he believes a...	[ "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.	The Last Moment There is a crowd on the street waiting to see the hanging. They are there to watch the now legendary Dinah Morris, the young Methodist woman who made Hetty confess, as much as to see the criminal. Dinah stands beside Hetty in the cart as it moves through the streets to the gallows. Dinah tells Hetty to ...	[ "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.	Another Meeting in the Wood This is an important chapter winding up the consequences of the love triangle of Arthur, Adam, and Hetty. It is the day after Hetty escapes hanging. Adam has just been to see the Poysers to tell them all that they don't know about the case. He agrees to leave Hayslope with the Poysers and 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.	At the Hall Farm Eighteen months later, Mrs. Poyser is trying to talk Dinah out of leaving for Snowfield. She has been staying with the Poysers to help them through the tragedy. Mrs. Poyser tries to convince her she can minister to the poor in Hayslope; there are many people who depend on her. Dinah says she must avoid...	[ "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.	In the Cottage Dinah and Adam walk together to the Bede cottage, and Adam tells her the Poysers will miss her. She answers that the Poysers' sorrow is healed, and she is called back to her old work. Adam says he puts her above all his other friends and regards her as a sister. He does not understand her agitation at hi...	[ "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.	Sunday Morning Dinah is questioned by Lisbeth about her leaving. Lisbeth complains that she hasn't long to live and will never see Dinah again. Then she launches into a topic embarrassing to Dinah: a husband. Lisbeth admits Seth is not the right husband, but asks her what she thinks of Adam? He would be a proper husban...	[ "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_chapter_52	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Adam and Dinah Adam walks to Hall Farm while the family is at church. He does not go to church so he can speak to Dinah alone. Dinah blushes as usual when Adam enters. They are both awkward with each other, but finally Adam blurts out that he loves her. She trembles with joy, crying, and returns his love but explains s...	[ "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.	The Harvest Supper It is the time of country harvest, with the barley rolling by on the loaded wagons. The beauty of the country strikes Adam "like a funeral-bell" for "there's a parting at the root of all our joys" . It is the time of thanksgiving, though, and he realizes that out of the sorrow of Hetty came the joy o...	[ "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.	The Meeting on the Hill Adam is patient with Dinah's absence and silence for six weeks; after that, he feels he must go to Snowfield to get her answer. He borrows Jonathan Burge's horse so he can get there faster. As he travels there, he remembers the sad journey in search of Hetty, but his sorrow and experience have e...	[ "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.	Marriage Bells One month later, Adam and Dinah are married. Mr. Burge's workers are given a holiday; Mrs. Irwine and her daughters are in a carriage to shake hands with bride and groom after Mr. Irwine marries them. From the Donnithorne household come Mrs. Best, Mr. Mills, and Mr. Craig. The Poysers are there and Bartl...	[ "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...
207	2852_chapters_1-2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mr. Sherlock Holmes Watson walks into Holmes's breakfast-room, where Sherlock Holmes is having breakfast. Watson examines a walking stick which a visitor, James Mortimer, had left behind the night before, after finding nobody there to receive him. Mortimer's name is engraved into the stick. Though his back is turned to...	[ "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save\nupon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated\nat the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the\nstick which our visitor had left behind him the night before. It was a\nfine, thick piece of wood, b...
208	2852_chapter_3-4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Problem Chapter III: The Problem Dr. Mortimer explains that the footprints were found 20 yards from the body, and that he would likely have overlooked them had it not been for the legend. Holmes then questions him, asking for details about the alley where Sir Charles died. As Dr. Mortimer explains, it consists of a...	[ "I confess at these words a shudder passed through me. There was a thrill\nin the doctor's voice which showed that he was himself deeply moved by\nthat which he told us. Holmes leaned forward in his excitement and his\neyes had the hard, dry glitter which shot from them when he was keenly\ninterested.", "\"You sa...
209	2852_chapter_v	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Three Broken Threads After two hours in a museum - Watson remarks on Holmes's unique ability to divert his attention when necessary - they visit the Northumberland Hotel, where Sir Henry Baskerville is staying. Examining the register, Holmes pretends to know two of the hotel's visitors, and fools the clerk into reveali...	[ "Sherlock Holmes had, in a very remarkable degree, the power of detaching\nhis mind at will. For two hours the strange business in which we had\nbeen involved appeared to be forgotten, and he was entirely absorbed in\nthe pictures of the modern Belgian masters. He would talk of nothing\nbut art, of which he had the...
210	2852_chapter_vi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Baskerville Hall On the day of Watson, Dr. Mortimer and Sir Henry's departure, Holmes drives Watson to the station. En route, he instructs Watson to report only the facts to him, leaving his theories out of the letters. He also shares his own theories. He does not believes that the Desmond man - who would inherit Sir H...	[ "Sir Henry Baskerville and Dr. Mortimer were ready upon the appointed\nday, and we started as arranged for Devonshire. Mr. Sherlock Holmes\ndrove with me to the station and gave me his last parting injunctions\nand advice.", "\"I will not bias your mind by suggesting theories or suspicions,\nWatson,\" said he; \"...
211	2852_chapter_7-9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Stapletons of Merripit House The house seems more cheerful in the fresh light of the next day, so Sir Henry speculates that the gloom was merely in their imaginations. When Watson mentions the woman's cry, Sir Henry recalls the sound but had dismissed it as a dream. They question Barrymore to learn that there are o...	[ "The fresh beauty of the following morning did something to efface from\nour minds the grim and gray impression which had been left upon both of\nus by our first experience of Baskerville Hall. As Sir Henry and I sat\nat breakfast the sunlight flooded in through the high mullioned windows,\nthrowing watery patches ...
212	2852_chapter_10-11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson This chapter is taken directly from Watson's diary, which he insists is the best way to tell this part of the story. The first entry is dated October 16th, the day after Watson and Sir Henry pursued Selden on the moor. Owing to the ominous mood of his surroundings and the frightenin...	[ "So far I have been able to quote from the reports which I have forwarded\nduring these early days to Sherlock Holmes. Now, however, I have arrived\nat a point in my narrative where I am compelled to abandon this method\nand to trust once more to my recollections, aided by the diary which\nI kept at the time. A few...
213	2852_chapter_12-13	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Death on the Moor Watson is naturally astounded, and more than a little offended, to find Holmes there. Having been kept out of the loop, he believes his reports have been wasted, and that Holmes has used him as a pawn. However, Holmes insists that Watson's reports - which were stopped at Combe Tracey and brought to Ho...	[ "For a moment or two I sat breathless, hardly able to believe my ears.\nThen my senses and my voice came back to me, while a crushing weight\nof responsibility seemed in an instant to be lifted from my soul. That\ncold, incisive, ironical voice could belong to but one man in all the\nworld.", "\"Holmes!\" I cried...
214	2852_chapter_14-15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Hound of the Baskervilles The men - Watson, Holmes, and Lestrade - take up position about 200 yards from Merripit House, each armed with a pistol. Filled with anticipation, Watson sneaks closer to the house, and sees Sir Henry and Stapleton drinking inside. Miss Stapleton is nowhere to be seen. After a few minutes,...	[ "One of Sherlock Holmes's defects--if, indeed, one may call it a\ndefect--was that he was exceedingly loath to communicate his full plans\nto any other person until the instant of their fulfilment. Partly it\ncame no doubt from his own masterful nature, which loved to dominate and\nsurprise those who were around hi...
215	2852_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	An unknown visitor has come by the house that Sherlock Holmes and John Watson share, but they weren't home to meet him. Watson inspects a walking stick that the visitor mistakenly left behind. Watson notices that it's made of nice wood and it has a band of silver under the handle dedicated "To James Mortimer, M.R.C.S.,...	[ "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save\nupon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated\nat the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the\nstick which our visitor had left behind him the night before. It was a\nfine, thick piece of wood, b...
216	2852_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Dr. Mortimer hands a manuscript to Holmes. It's old--it dates back to 1742, at least a hundred fifty years before the events of Hound of the Baskervilles. Dr. Mortimer got the manuscript from his friend, Sir Charles Baskerville. And even though the manuscript deals with an old family legend, Dr. Mortimer is here on ver...	[ "\"I have in my pocket a manuscript,\" said Dr. James Mortimer.", "\"I observed it as you entered the room,\" said Holmes.", "\"It is an old manuscript.\"", "\"Early eighteenth century, unless it is a forgery.\"", "\"How can you say that, sir?\"", "\"You have presented an inch or two of it to my examinati...
217	2852_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Dr. Mortimer insists that this strange black dog is no wild or local dog. The ash from Sir Charles' cigar shows that he was standing at the end of the driveway for five or ten minutes before tiptoeing out in the direction of the moor. Holmes is annoyed that he hasn't gotten a look at the scene of the death yet--why did...	[ "I confess at these words a shudder passed through me. There was a thrill\nin the doctor's voice which showed that he was himself deeply moved by\nthat which he told us. Holmes leaned forward in his excitement and his\neyes had the hard, dry glitter which shot from them when he was keenly\ninterested.", "\"You sa...
218	2852_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	At exactly ten the next morning, Dr. Mortimer shows up with Sir Henry Baskerville. Sir Henry is a smart-looking guy of around thirty. He's glad to meet Holmes because he's had a weird experience he wants to discuss. Even though it's not public knowledge where he's staying in London, he received an anonymous note at his...	[ "Our breakfast table was cleared early, and Holmes waited in his\ndressing-gown for the promised interview. Our clients were punctual to\ntheir appointment, for the clock had just struck ten when Dr. Mortimer\nwas shown up, followed by the young baronet. The latter was a small,\nalert, dark-eyed man about thirty ye...
209	2852_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Holmes and Watson arrive at Sir Henry's hotel. Holmes says that the other people staying at the hotel cannot be connected to the person watching Sir Henry, because that person is keeping his distance. When they arrive at Sir Henry's room, they find out that he is furious. Someone's stolen an old black boot, leaving him...	[ "Sherlock Holmes had, in a very remarkable degree, the power of detaching\nhis mind at will. For two hours the strange business in which we had\nbeen involved appeared to be forgotten, and he was entirely absorbed in\nthe pictures of the modern Belgian masters. He would talk of nothing\nbut art, of which he had the...
210	2852_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	That Saturday, Holmes takes Watson to the train station to go to Baskerville Hall. Holmes asks Watson to send him information about Sir Henry's neighbors. Holmes gives Watson a quick list of people in the area:Mr. and Mrs. Barrymore ;Dr. Mortimer ;Mrs. Mortimer ;Stapleton ;Stapleton's sister ; and Mr. Frankland . Mr. a...	[ "Sir Henry Baskerville and Dr. Mortimer were ready upon the appointed\nday, and we started as arranged for Devonshire. Mr. Sherlock Holmes\ndrove with me to the station and gave me his last parting injunctions\nand advice.", "\"I will not bias your mind by suggesting theories or suspicions,\nWatson,\" said he; \"...
219	2852_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next morning, the sun is shining and the house seems less, well, cursed. Even so, both Watson and Sir Henry agree that they heard a woman crying the night before. Watson suspects that the crying woman is Mrs. Barrymore, and that Barrymore's responsible. Watson's suspicions about Barrymore's character only increase ...	[ "The fresh beauty of the following morning did something to efface from\nour minds the grim and gray impression which had been left upon both of\nus by our first experience of Baskerville Hall. As Sir Henry and I sat\nat breakfast the sunlight flooded in through the high mullioned windows,\nthrowing watery patches ...
220	2852_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As the narrator of this story, Watson then describes the telegrams he's sent to Holmes so far. The first telegram reports that it looks like Selden has left the area. Anyway, no one's seen him, which is a big relief. Watson has also noticed signs that Sir Henry is totally falling for Beryl Stapleton. Weird, though--you...	[ "From this point onward I will follow the course of events by\ntranscribing my own letters to Mr. Sherlock Holmes which lie before me\non the table. One page is missing, but otherwise they are exactly\nas written and show my feelings and suspicions of the moment more\naccurately than my memory, clear as it is upon ...
221	2852_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next morning, Watson looks out Barrymore's secret window. He sees that this window gives the best view of the moor. Watson mentions Barrymore's late night activities to Sir Henry, who isn't surprised. In fact, Sir Henry has also heard Barrymore going around late at night. They decide to stay up that night and follo...	[ "Baskerville Hall, Oct. 15th. MY DEAR HOLMES: If I was compelled to\nleave you without much news during the early days of my mission you must\nacknowledge that I am making up for lost time, and that events are now\ncrowding thick and fast upon us. In my last report I ended upon my top\nnote with Barrymore at the wi...
222	2852_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As the chapter title promises us, this is--wait for it--a section of Watson's diary from his time at Baskerville Hall. Shocking, we know. Barrymore and Sir Henry get into it the next morning. Turns out Barrymore's angry that Watson and Sir Henry went to hunt down Selden. Barrymore begs the two men to let Selden go unti...	[ "So far I have been able to quote from the reports which I have forwarded\nduring these early days to Sherlock Holmes. Now, however, I have arrived\nat a point in my narrative where I am compelled to abandon this method\nand to trust once more to my recollections, aided by the diary which\nI kept at the time. A few...
223	2852_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Watson travels into Coombe Tracey to see if he can track down Laura Lyons. She's actually pretty easy to find . Watson asks her straight out if she knew Sir Charles. She reluctantly admits that she has received financial assistance from him. Laura goes on to say that a friend of hers, Stapleton, used to speak to Sir Ch...	[ "The extract from my private diary which forms the last chapter has\nbrought my narrative up to the eighteenth of October, a time when these\nstrange events began to move swiftly towards their terrible conclusion.\nThe incidents of the next few days are indelibly graven upon my\nrecollection, and I can tell them wi...
224	2852_chapter_12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Surprise! The mysterious man on the hill is none other than Holmes. Watson gets upset when he realizes that Holmes has been deliberately keeping him in the dark. And what about all those reports, which he so carefully wrote up and sent off to London? Holmes tries to make nice. He says he trusts Watson completely. But h...	[ "For a moment or two I sat breathless, hardly able to believe my ears.\nThen my senses and my voice came back to me, while a crushing weight\nof responsibility seemed in an instant to be lifted from my soul. That\ncold, incisive, ironical voice could belong to but one man in all the\nworld.", "\"Holmes!\" I cried...
225	2852_chapter_13	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Holmes is impressed at how Stapleton's so cool under pressure. Yeah, he's cool--it's not like Holmes can prove any of his ideas in a court of law yet. Holmes believes that Laura Lyons will be the key to this stage of the case. Watson brings Holmes to Baskerville Hall, and Sir Henry welcomes him. Watson breaks the news ...	[ "\"We're at close grips at last,\" said Holmes as we walked together across\nthe moor. \"What a nerve the fellow has! How he pulled himself together\nin the face of what must have been a paralyzing shock when he found that\nthe wrong man had fallen a victim to his plot. I told you in London,\nWatson, and I tell you...
226	2852_chapter_14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As Holmes, Watson, and Lestrade drive over to Merripit House, the suspense is killing Watson. Holmes and Lestrade hide about two hundred yards away from the house. Holmes sends Watson to spy through the dining-room window. Sir Henry and Stapleton are sitting together and smoking. Beryl's nowhere to be seen. The Grimpen...	[ "One of Sherlock Holmes's defects--if, indeed, one may call it a\ndefect--was that he was exceedingly loath to communicate his full plans\nto any other person until the instant of their fulfilment. Partly it\ncame no doubt from his own masterful nature, which loved to dominate and\nsurprise those who were around hi...
227	2852_chapter_15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	About a month later, Holmes and Watson are sitting by the fire in their apartment in London. They've had a visit from Sir Henry and Dr. Mortimer, who are about to go on a relaxing trip around the world to help improve Sir Henry's "shattered nerves" . No kidding. Since the case of the Baskervilles is on Watson's mind, h...	[ "It was the end of November, and Holmes and I sat, upon a raw and foggy\nnight, on either side of a blazing fire in our sitting-room in Baker\nStreet. Since the tragic upshot of our visit to Devonshire he had been\nengaged in two affairs of the utmost importance, in the first of which\nhe had exposed the atrocious ...
228	2413_part_1,_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A nameless first-person narrator recounts the day young Charles Bovary appeared at school. Charles is an embarrassed, rusticated, slow, and bewildered rural fellow. Also, he's a total fashion victim. Charles has some difficulty managing his tragically ugly hat; the teacher and the other boys all mock him. The class get...	[ "We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a \"new\nfellow,\" not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a\nlarge desk. Those who had been asleep woke up, and every one rose as if\njust surprised at his work.", "The head-master made a sign to us to sit down. Then, turning to th...
229	2413_part_1,_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The young "doctor" is awakened in the night by a call from a patient; someone at a farm called Les Bertaux outside the town has a broken leg that needs to be set. It's agreed that Charles will head out to take care of the patient at moonrise. Until then, Charles lies awake, dreading the medical debacle about to unfold....	[ "One night towards eleven o'clock they were awakened by the noise of\na horse pulling up outside their door. The servant opened the\ngarret-window and parleyed for some time with a man in the street below.\nHe came for the doctor, had a letter for him. Natasie came downstairs\nshivering and undid the bars and bolts...
230	2413_part_1,_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Charles's half-hearted mourning doesn't last too long. Monsieur Rouault shows up the day after the funeral to deliver his payment for the medical treatment, and also to give his condolences. He encourages Charles to visit Les Bertaux again, which he does, happily. Monsieur Rouault cheers Charles up, and he quickly begi...	[ "One morning old Rouault brought Charles the money for setting his\nleg--seventy-five francs in forty-sou pieces, and a turkey. He had heard\nof his loss, and consoled him as well as he could.", "\"I know what it is,\" said he, clapping him on the shoulder; \"I've been\nthrough it. When I lost my dear departed, I...
231	2413_part_1,_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It's the big day, and various friends and family members arrive in a bustle of horses, carriages, and passengers. Flaubert treats us to a rather ridiculous description of country folks; we are reminded again that this is not the sophisticated big city event that Emma longs for; rather, it is a procession of people awkw...	[ "The guests arrived early in carriages, in one-horse chaises, two-wheeled\ncars, old open gigs, waggonettes with leather hoods, and the young\npeople from the nearer villages in carts, in which they stood up in\nrows, holding on to the sides so as not to fall, going at a trot\nand well shaken up. Some came from a d...
232	2413_part_1,_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Next, we get a brief tour of Charles and Emma's house. It sounds pretty decent - nothing impressive, but a nice enough home for a country doctor and his wife. There's a little garden, an office for Charles , and generally everything a typical village housewife might need. Emma, however, is not your typical village hous...	[ "The brick front was just in a line with the street, or rather the road.\nBehind the door hung a cloak with a small collar, a bridle, and a black\nleather cap, and on the floor, in a corner, were a pair of leggings,\nstill covered with dry mud. On the right was the one apartment, that was\nboth dining and sitting r...
233	2413_part_1,_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Now that we've had a tour of the Bovary household, it's time for a tour of Emma's inner landscape. Fade out to a flashback... Emma is a dreamy, romantic child, and is perhaps too heavily influenced by Paul and Virginia, a popular and super-utopian novel about two siblings stranded on a desert island. At age thirteen, E...	[ "She had read \"Paul and Virginia,\" and she had dreamed of the little\nbamboo-house, the nigger Domingo, the dog Fidele, but above all of the\nsweet friendship of some dear little brother, who seeks red fruit for\nyou on trees taller than steeples, or who runs barefoot over the sand,\nbringing you a bird's nest.",...
234	2413_part_1,_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Emma wonders if these "honeymoon days" are really the best days of her life. She starts to feel cheated, as though Charles has deprived her of the cliched, romantic fantasies she cooks up. She's sure that she would be happier if only she was somewhere else...preferably with someone else... Emma wants to reveal these fe...	[ "She thought, sometimes, that, after all, this was the happiest time of her life--the honeymoon, as people called it. To taste the full sweetness of it, it would have been necessary doubtless to fly to those lands with sonorous names where the days after marriage are full of laziness most suave. In post chaises beh...
235	2413_part_1,_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The chateau is everything Emma could have dreamt of. It's gorgeous and extravagantly beautiful. Emma is profoundly impressed by the whole thing and notices every detail. At dinner, Emma sees that many of the ladies take wine at dinner . Emma is fascinated by an old, unattractive man, the Duc de Laverdiere; rumor has it...	[ "The chateau, a modern building in Italian style, with two projecting\nwings and three flights of steps, lay at the foot of an immense\ngreen-sward, on which some cows were grazing among groups of large trees\nset out at regular intervals, while large beds of arbutus, rhododendron,\nsyringas, and guelder roses bulg...
236	2413_part_1,_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When Charles is out, Emma lovingly looks at the green silk cigar case and invents stories about its origins. She imagines that an adoring mistress gave it to the Viscount - she even imagines herself in the role of the mistress. Paris becomes a new obsession for Emma. She jealously looks at the fishmongers' carts on the...	[ "Often when Charles was out she took from the cupboard, between the\nfolds of the linen where she had left it, the green silk cigar case. She looked at it, opened it, and even smelt the odour of the lining--a\nmixture of verbena and tobacco. Whose was it? The Viscount's? Perhaps\nit was a present from his mistress....
237	2413_part_2,_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Welcome to Emma and Charles's new home! Yonville-l'Abbaye, their new town, is a small step up from Tostes. It's a market town in the Neufchatel region of France, not too far from Rouen . The town is bordered by farmland, and it actually sounds fairly attractive. Flaubert, ever the party pooper, describes it as "charact...	[ "Yonville-l'Abbaye (so called from an old Capuchin abbey of which not\neven the ruins remain) is a market-town twenty-four miles from Rouen,\nbetween the Abbeville and Beauvais roads, at the foot of a valley\nwatered by the Rieule, a little river that runs into the Andelle after\nturning three water-mills near its ...
238	2413_part_2,_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Emma, Charles, Felicite, and Monsieur Lheureux get out of the Hirondelle for the Bovarys' first glimpse of Yonville. Monsieur Homais is on hand to introduce himself. Emma checks out the inn. Meanwhile, a blond young man checks her out. Who is this guy, you may ask? Flaubert tells us. It turns out that this is the Monsi...	[ "Emma got out first, then Felicite, Monsieur Lheureux, and a nurse, and\nthey had to wake up Charles in his corner, where he had slept soundly\nsince night set in.", "Homais introduced himself; he offered his homages to madame and his\nrespects to monsieur; said he was charmed to have been able to render\nthem so...
239	2413_part_2,_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next morning, Emma sees Leon through her bedroom window; they bow to each other. Leon, hopeful that the Bovarys will turn up for dinner at the inn again, can't wait for six o'clock. However, dinnertime rolls around, and Emma is nowhere to be found. He's deeply disappointed. Apparently, Leon isn't exactly a lady's m...	[ "The next day, as she was getting up, she saw the clerk on the Place. She\nhad on a dressing-gown. He looked up and bowed. She nodded quickly and\nreclosed the window.", "Leon waited all day for six o'clock in the evening to come, but on going\nto the inn, he found no one but Monsieur Binet, already at table. The...
240	2413_part_2,_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Once the winter arrives, Emma moves into the parlor from her room. She sits and people-watches all day. Twice a day, she sees Leon go back and forth to and from his office. Monsieur Homais continues to be an attentive neighbor; he stops by every day around dinner time to discuss the daily news with Charles and to give ...	[ "When the first cold days set in Emma left her bedroom for the\nsitting-room, a long apartment with a low ceiling, in which there was\non the mantelpiece a large bunch of coral spread out against the\nlooking-glass. Seated in her arm chair near the window, she could see\nthe villagers pass along the pavement.", "...
241	2413_part_2,_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The usual quartet is out on an odd and incredibly boring field trip. They're visiting a new spinning mill just outside town, along with two of Homais' unfortunately named children, Athalie and Napoleon. The main attraction is generally unattractive. Homais, as usual, chats up a storm. Everyone else is somewhat pensive....	[ "It was a Sunday in February, an afternoon when the snow was falling.", "They had all, Monsieur and Madame Bovary, Homais, and Monsieur Leon,\ngone to see a yarn-mill that was being built in the valley a mile and a\nhalf from Yonville. The druggist had taken Napoleon and Athalie to give\nthem some exercise, and J...
242	2413_part_2,_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Poor Emma. It's springtime, and she finally attempts to do something to change her life. Remembering how much she loved the convent school, she goes to church to talk to Father Bournisien. She finds the priest much preoccupied by the schoolboys he's in charge of. He's something of an irritable and unpleasant man. Emma ...	[ "One evening when the window was open, and she, sitting by it, had been\nwatching Lestiboudois, the beadle, trimming the box, she suddenly heard\nthe Angelus ringing.", "It was the beginning of April, when the primroses are in bloom, and a\nwarm wind blows over the flower-beds newly turned, and the gardens, like\...
243	2413_part_2,_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Emma sinks back into depression. Now that Leon is gone, she has nothing but her romantic fantasies left. It's just like it was after the ball at La Vaubyessard - nothing seems good enough for her. Leon becomes the center of Emma's fantasy life - not the real Leon, mind you, but her own construction of him. Now that he'...	[ "The next day was a dreary one for Emma. Everything seemed to her\nenveloped in a black atmosphere floating confusedly over the exterior of\nthings, and sorrow was engulfed within her soul with soft shrieks such\nas the winter wind makes in ruined castles. It was that reverie which we\ngive to things that will not ...
244	2413_part_2,_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It's a big day for little Yonville - the town fair. Everyone in the town is up early to set up for it. Binet, who doubles as the captain of the fire brigade, is all gussied up. The whole town is looking its best. The only person who's not too thrilled about all of this is Madame Lefrancois. Homais stops to chat with he...	[ "At last it came, the famous agricultural show. On the morning of the\nsolemnity all the inhabitants at their doors were chatting over the\npreparations. The pediment of the town hall had been hung with garlands\nof ivy; a tent had been erected in a meadow for the banquet; and in the\nmiddle of the Place, in front ...
245	2413_part_2,_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Six weeks have passed since the fair. Rodolphe hasn't seen Emma again; at first, he just didn't want to show up to see her right away, and decided to go on a hunting trip. However, this trip lasted a lot longer than he'd planned and, now that he's back, he's worried that he missed his window of opportunity. He decides ...	[ "Six weeks passed. Rodolphe did not come again. At last one evening he\nappeared.", "The day after the show he had said to himself--\"We mustn't go back too\nsoon; that would be a mistake.\"", "And at the end of a week he had gone off hunting. After the hunting he\nhad thought it was too late, and then he reaso...
246	2413_part_2,_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	This warning from Rodolphe begins to worry Emma - and one day, she encounters Binet illegally duck hunting. He has his own worries, since he's breaking the law, but Emma begins to fear that he will tell everyone he saw her gadding about in the wee hours of the morning. She stresses out about this all day. In the evenin...	[ "Gradually Rodolphe's fears took possession of her. At first, love had\nintoxicated her; and she had thought of nothing beyond. But now that he\nwas indispensable to her life, she feared to lose anything of this, or\neven that it should be disturbed. When she came back from his house she\nlooked all about her, anxi...
247	2413_part_2,_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It turns out that Homais is all excited about some article on curing clubfeet. He's convinced that Charles should attempt to fix the clubfoot of Hippolyte, a servant at Madame Lefrancois's inn. Emma is easily convinced. She hopes that the operation will earn Charles some respect and extra cash. This helps a lot with he...	[ "He had recently read a eulogy on a new method for curing club-foot, and\nas he was a partisan of progress, he conceived the patriotic idea that\nYonville, in order to keep to the fore, ought to have some operations\nfor strephopody or club-foot.", "\"For,\" said he to Emma, \"what risk is there? See--\" (and he ...
248	2413_part_2,_chapter_12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Emma and Rodolphe's relationship is passionate again. Sometimes Emma misses Rodolphe so badly that she sends Justin to fetch him in the middle of the day. On one such day, she suggests that the two of them run off and live somewhere else. Rodolphe doesn't understand why she's so serious over something as trivial as a l...	[ "They began to love one another again. Often, even in the middle of the\nday, Emma suddenly wrote to him, then from the window made a sign to\nJustin, who, taking his apron off, quickly ran to La Huchette. Rodolphe\nwould come; she had sent for him to tell him that she was bored, that\nher husband was odious, her l...
249	2413_part_2,_chapter_13	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	His mind made up, Rodolphe returns home to La Huchette and sits down to write a farewell letter to Emma. He sifts through the various tokens of love affairs past that he's accumulated through many years of being a ladies' man. All of the women he's had in the past blur together in his mind - now Emma is just one of the...	[ "No sooner was Rodolphe at home than he sat down quickly at his bureau\nunder the stag's head that hung as a trophy on the wall. But when he had\nthe pen between his fingers, he could think of nothing, so that, resting\non his elbows, he began to reflect. Emma seemed to him to have receded\ninto a far-off past, as ...
250	2413_part_2,_chapter_14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	You have to feel bad for Charles. Life is not being particularly kind to him. First of all, he has to pay all kinds of bills, he owes his friend Homais for all the drugs he's taken from the pharmacy for Emma. To top it all off, Monsieur Lheureux is on his case now. The merchant tries to pull a fast one over on the poor...	[ "To begin with, he did not know how he could pay Monsieur Homais for all the physic supplied by him, and though, as a medical man, he was not obliged to pay for it, he nevertheless blushed a little at such an obligation. Then the expenses of the household, now that the servant was mistress, became terrible. Bills r...
251	2413_part_2,_chapter_15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The opera is Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, a tragedy in which an unfortunate heroine is driven mad because she's forced to marry the wrong man. Perhaps not the best choice for Emma... Emma and Charles take a stroll before the opera, and when they finally settle down in their seats, Emma feels satisfied for the first...	[ "The crowd was waiting against the wall, symmetrically enclosed between\nthe balustrades. At the corner of the neighbouring streets huge bills\nrepeated in quaint letters \"Lucie de Lammermoor-Lagardy-Opera-etc.\" The\nweather was fine, the people were hot, perspiration trickled amid the\ncurls, and handkerchiefs t...
252	2413_part_3,_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A lot of things happened to Leon in Paris. First of all, he studied law. Secondly, he studied women. He's no longer the same shy boy he was before. All along, he held on to a vague hope that someday he and Emma might actually get together, even while he had new experiences with other women. This new Leon is resolved to...	[ "Monsieur Leon, while studying law, had gone pretty often to the\ndancing-rooms, where he was even a great success amongst the grisettes,\nwho thought he had a distinguished air. He was the best-mannered of the\nstudents; he wore his hair neither too long nor too short, didn't spend\nall his quarter's money on the ...

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