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Adam Bede George Eliot 7840K 2023-09-02

"No!" Adaain It 'ud s are cast up at the last, ifside My back's broad enough and strong enough; I should be no better than a coward to go away and leave the troubles to be borne by theht to bear the infirmities of those that are weak, and not to please themselves' There's a text wants no candle to show't; it shines by its own light It's plain enough you get into the wrong road i' this life if you run after this and that only for the sake o'outside it; but if you've got ayour own bed an' leaving the rest to lie on the stones Nay, nay, I'll never slip my neck out o' the yoke, and leave the load to be drawn by the weak uns Father's a sore cross toyear to coot th' health, and the limbs, and the sperrit to bear it"

At this iven at the house door, and Gyp, instead of barking, as ave a loud howl Adam, verywas there; all was still, as when he opened it an hour before; the leaves were ht of the stars showed the placid fields on both sides of the brook quite empty of visible life Ada except a rat which darted into the woodshed as he passed He went in again, wondering; the sound was so peculiar that the e of the and striking the door He could not help a little shudder, as he remembered how often his n when soratuitously superstitious, but he had the blood of the peasant in him as well as of the artisan, and a peasant can noin a traditional superstition than a horse can help tre when he sees a camel Besides, he had that ion of e: it was the depth of his reverence quite as ave hiion, and he often checked Seth's argu mystery; thee know'st but little about it" And so it happened that Ada had fallen down and he had been told that this was a divine judg o' the roof and walls wasn't right, else it wouldn't ha' conostics, and to his dying day he bated his breath a little when he told the story of the stroke with the and I tell it as he told it, not atteerness to explain impressions, we often lose our hold of the sympathy that comprehends them