[Adam Bede by George Eliot]@TWC D-Link bookAdam Bede CHAPTER XVI 21/29
I don't believe there's anything you can't prevail on people to do with kindness.
For my part, I couldn't live in a neighbourhood where I was not respected and beloved.
And it's very pleasant to go among the tenants here--they seem all so well inclined to me I suppose it seems only the other day to them since I was a little lad, riding on a pony about as big as a sheep.
And if fair allowances were made to them, and their buildings attended to, one could persuade them to farm on a better plan, stupid as they are." "Then mind you fall in love in the right place, and don't get a wife who will drain your purse and make you niggardly in spite of yourself.
My mother and I have a little discussion about you sometimes: she says, 'I ll never risk a single prophecy on Arthur until I see the woman he falls in love with.' She thinks your lady-love will rule you as the moon rules the tides.
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