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Adam Bede

CHAPTER VIII
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You may go the country round and not find such another woman turned sixty-six.

It's summat-like to see such a man as that i' the desk of a Sunday! As I say to Poyser, it's like looking at a full crop o' wheat, or a pasture with a fine dairy o' cows in it; it makes you think the world's comfortable-like.

But as for such creaturs as you Methodisses run after, I'd as soon go to look at a lot o' bare-ribbed runts on a common.

Fine folks they are to tell you what's right, as look as if they'd never tasted nothing better than bacon-sword and sour-cake i' their lives.

But what did Mr.Irwine say to you about that fool's trick o' preaching on the Green ?" "He only said he'd heard of it; he didn't seem to feel any displeasure about it.


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