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"How do you do, Ada frorave eyes upon hiain to bear the burden and heat of the day"

It was like dreaht Adam had seen Dinah several times, but always at the Hall Farm, where he was not very vividly conscious of any woman's presence except Hetty's, and he had only in the last day or two begun to suspect that Seth was in love with her, so that his attention had not hitherto been draards her for his brother's sake But now her sliown, and her pale serene face is to a reality contrasted with a preoccupying fancy For the first moment or two he made no answer, but looked at her with the concentrated, exaives to an object in which he has suddenly begun to be interested Dinah, for the first time in her life, felt a painful self-consciousness; there was so man so different from the mildness and timidity of his brother Seth A faint blush came, which deepened as she wondered at it This blush recalled Adaetfulness

"I was quite taken by surprise; it was very good of you to corateful tone, for his quick mind told him at once how she came to be there "I hoperather anxiously what had been Dinah's reception

"Yes," said Dinah, resureatly coood deal of rest in the night, by times She was fast asleep when I left her"

"Who was it took the news to the Hall Far to so about it

"It was Mr Irwine, the clergyrieved for your mother when she heard it, and wanted me to come; and so is one out to Rosseter all yesterday They'll look for you there as soon as you've got tilad to see you"

Dinah, with her sy to hear if Hetty had said anything about their trouble; she was too rigorously truthful for benevolent invention, but she had contrived to say so in which Hetty was tacitly included Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves Adam liked what Dinah had said so much that his mind was directly full of the next visit he should pay to the Hall Farm, when Hetty would perhaps behave more kindly to him than she had ever done before