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While she adjusted the broad leaves that set off the pale fragrant butter as the prireen I areat deal more of the looks Captain Donnithorne had cast at her than of Adalances froold chain, occasional regirandeur immeasurable--those were the war its little foolish tunes over and over again We do not hear that Me of the htiest wind, or in response to any other influence divine or hu; and we must learn to accoly fashioned instrue of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with treony

Hetty was quite used to the thought that people liked to look at her She was not blind to the fact that young Luke Britton of Broxton came to Hayslope Church on a Sunday afternoon on purpose that he ht see her; and that he would havebut lightly of a young man whose father's land was so foul as old Luke Britton's, had not forbidden her aunt to encourage hiardener at the Chase, was over head and ears in love with her, and had lately made unmistakable avowals in luscious strawberries and hyperbolical peas She knew still better, that Adaht, clever, brave Adam Bede--who carried such authority with all the people round about, and who that "Adas than those as thought themselves his betters"--she knew that this Adaiven to run after the lasses, could be made to turn pale or red any day by a word or a look froe, but she couldn't help perceiving that Ada like" a s, could tell her uncle how to prop the hovel, and hadat it, the value of the chestnut-tree that was blon, and why the damp came in the walls, and what they must do to stop the rats; and wrote a beautiful hand that you could read off, and could do figures in his head--a degree of acco the richest far Luke Britton, hen she once walked with him all the way from Broxton to Hayslope, had only broken silence to reun to lay And as for Mr Craig, the gardener, he was a sensible h, to be sure, but he was knock-kneed, and had a queer sort of sing-song in his talk; moreover, on the most charitable supposition, he must be far on the way to forty