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Adam Bede

CHAPTER XVI
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But presently Dent brings up a poor fellow who has killed a hare, and when I've got through my 'justicing,' as Carroll calls it, I'm inclined for a ride round the glebe, and on my way back I meet with the master of the workhouse, who has got a long story of a mutinous pauper to tell me; and so the day goes on, and I'm always the same lazy fellow before evening sets in.

Besides, one wants the stimulus of sympathy, and I have never had that since poor D'Oyley left Treddleston.

If you had stuck to your books well, you rascal, I should have had a pleasanter prospect before me.

But scholarship doesn't run in your family blood." "No indeed.

It's well if I can remember a little inapplicable Latin to adorn my maiden speech in Parliament six or seven years hence.


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