[Adam Bede by George Eliot]@TWC D-Link bookAdam Bede CHAPTER VII 4/7
"I want to see her." "Where IS the little un, Hetty ?" said Mrs.Poyser.
"She came in here not long ago." "I don't know.
She went into the brewhouse to Nancy, I think." The proud mother, unable to resist the temptation to show her Totty, passed at once into the back kitchen, in search of her, not, however, without misgivings lest something should have happened to render her person and attire unfit for presentation. "And do you carry the butter to market when you've made it ?" said the Captain to Hetty, meanwhile. "Oh no, sir; not when it's so heavy.
I'm not strong enough to carry it. Alick takes it on horseback." "No, I'm sure your pretty arms were never meant for such heavy weights. But you go out a walk sometimes these pleasant evenings, don't you? Why don't you have a walk in the Chase sometimes, now it's so green and pleasant? I hardly ever see you anywhere except at home and at church." "Aunt doesn't like me to go a-walking only when I'm going somewhere," said Hetty.
"But I go through the Chase sometimes." "And don't you ever go to see Mrs.Best, the housekeeper? I think I saw you once in the housekeeper's room." "It isn't Mrs.Best, it's Mrs.Pomfret, the lady's maid, as I go to see. She's teaching me tent-stitch and the lace-mending.
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