The Essential Works of George Eliot. George Eliot

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СКАЧАТЬ Book Two.

       I. In Which the Story Pauses a Little.

       II. Church.

       III. Adam on a Working Day.

       IV. Adam Visits the Hall Farm.

       V. The Night-School and the Schoolmaster.

       Book Three.

       I. Going to the Birthday Feast.

       II. Dinner-Time.

       III. The Health-Drinking.

       IV. The Games.

       V. The Dance.

       Book Four.

       I. A crisis.

       II. A Dilemma.

       III. The Next Morning.

       IV. The Delivery of the Letter.

       V. In Hetty’s Bed-Chamber.

       VI. Mrs. Poyser “Has Her Say Out”.

       VII. More Links.

       VIII. The Betrothal.

       IX. The Hidden Dread.

       Book Five.

       I. The Journey of Hope.

       II. The Journey in Despair.

       III. The Quest.

       IV. The Tidings.

       V. The Bitter Waters Spread.

       VI. The Eve of the Trial.

       VII. The Morning of the Trial.

       VIII. The Verdict.

       IX. Arthur’s Return.

       X. In the Prison.

       XI. The Hours of Suspense.

       XII. The Last Moment.

       XIII. Another Meeting in the Wood.

       Book Six.

       I. At the Hall Farm.

       II. In the Cottage.

       III. Sunday Morning.

       IV. Adam and Dinah.

       V. The Harvest Supper.

       VI. The Meeting on the Hill.

       VII. Marriage Bells.

       Epilogue.

Book One.

      Chapter I.

       The Workshop.

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      With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader. With this drop of ink at the end of my pen, I will show you the roomy workshop of Mr. Jonathan Burge, carpenter and builder, in the village of Hayslope, as it appeared on the eighteenth of June, in the year of our Lord 1799.

      The afternoon sun was warm on the five workmen there, busy upon doors and window-frames and wainscoting. A scent of pine-wood from a tentlike pile of planks outside the open door mingled itself with the scent of the elder-bushes which were spreading their summer snow close to the open window opposite; the slanting sunbeams shone through the transparent shavings that flew before the steady plane, and lit up the fine grain of the oak panelling which stood propped against the wall. On a heap of those soft shavings a rough, grey shepherd dog had made himself a pleasant bed, and was lying with his nose between his fore-paws, occasionally wrinkling his brows to cast a glance at the tallest of the five workmen, СКАЧАТЬ