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Adam Bede
Adam Bede

Chapter XXVII · Chapter 27

Chapter 31 of Adam Bede is here in full — 125 sentences across 25 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Chapter 31 of Adam Bede by George Eliot holds 125 sentences, grouped into 25 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.

What does chapter 31 of Adam Bede contain?

Chapter 31 holds 125 sentences of Adam Bede, unabridged, divided into 25 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 31 of Adam Bede by George Eliot exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 125 sentences, grouped into 25 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.

How do I study chapter 31 of Adam Bede?

Work through the 25 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 25 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.

Can chapter 31 be read aloud to me?

Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 31 can be played aloud in United States English.

Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.

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Is this the complete text of Adam Bede?

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Project Gutenberg eBook #507, a public-domain edition. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

How long does Adam Bede take to read?

About 600 minutes of reading across 1806 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in Adam Bede

Words and structures a reader meets early in Adam Bede, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

Workshop
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Single
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Mirror
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Egyptian
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The Eve of the Trial
An upper room in a dull Stoniton street, with two beds in itone laid on the floor.
It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.
You would hardly have known it was Adam without being told.
His face has got thinner this last week: he has the sunken eyes, the neglected beard of a man just risen from a sick-bed.
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Adam Bede

Chapter XXVII · Chapter 27

Chapter 31 of Adam Bede is here in full — 125 sentences across 25 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/25 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
The Eve of the Trial
Line 2
An upper room in a dull Stoniton street, with two beds in itone laid on the floor.
Line 3
It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.
Line 4
You would hardly have known it was Adam without being told.
Line 5
His face has got thinner this last week: he has the sunken eyes, the neglected beard of a man just risen from a sick-bed.
All words in this reading · 83

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a

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From this reading An upper room in a dull Stoniton street, with two beds in it—one laid on the floor.

Adam

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

An

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From this reading An upper room in a dull Stoniton street, with two beds in it—one laid on the floor.

and

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

at

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

Bartle

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

beard

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From this reading His face has got thinner this last week: he has the sunken eyes, the neglected beard of a man just risen from a sick-bed.

Bede

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

beds

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From this reading An upper room in a dull Stoniton street, with two beds in it—one laid on the floor.

being

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From this reading You would hardly have known it was Adam without being told.

by

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

candle

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

dark

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

dip

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

dull

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From this reading An upper room in a dull Stoniton street, with two beds in it—one laid on the floor.

Eve

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From this reading The Eve of the Trial

eyes

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From this reading His face has got thinner this last week: he has the sunken eyes, the neglected beard of a man just risen from a sick-bed.

face

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From this reading His face has got thinner this last week: he has the sunken eyes, the neglected beard of a man just risen from a sick-bed.

floor

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From this reading An upper room in a dull Stoniton street, with two beds in it—one laid on the floor.

from

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From this reading His face has got thinner this last week: he has the sunken eyes, the neglected beard of a man just risen from a sick-bed.

got

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From this reading His face has got thinner this last week: he has the sunken eyes, the neglected beard of a man just risen from a sick-bed.

hardly

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From this reading You would hardly have known it was Adam without being told.

has

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From this reading His face has got thinner this last week: he has the sunken eyes, the neglected beard of a man just risen from a sick-bed.

have

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

he

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

his

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

in

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From this reading An upper room in a dull Stoniton street, with two beds in it—one laid on the floor.

is

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

it

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From this reading An upper room in a dull Stoniton street, with two beds in it—one laid on the floor.

just

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From this reading His face has got thinner this last week: he has the sunken eyes, the neglected beard of a man just risen from a sick-bed.

known

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From this reading You would hardly have known it was Adam without being told.

laid

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From this reading An upper room in a dull Stoniton street, with two beds in it—one laid on the floor.

last

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From this reading His face has got thinner this last week: he has the sunken eyes, the neglected beard of a man just risen from a sick-bed.

light

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

looking

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

man

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From this reading His face has got thinner this last week: he has the sunken eyes, the neglected beard of a man just risen from a sick-bed.

Massey

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

might

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

moonlight

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

near

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

neglected

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From this reading His face has got thinner this last week: he has the sunken eyes, the neglected beard of a man just risen from a sick-bed.

night

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

o'clock

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

of

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From this reading The Eve of the Trial

on

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From this reading An upper room in a dull Stoniton street, with two beds in it—one laid on the floor.

one

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From this reading An upper room in a dull Stoniton street, with two beds in it—one laid on the floor.

opposite

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

out

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

over

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

pretending

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

read

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

really

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

risen

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From this reading His face has got thinner this last week: he has the sunken eyes, the neglected beard of a man just risen from a sick-bed.

room

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From this reading An upper room in a dull Stoniton street, with two beds in it—one laid on the floor.

seated

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

shuts

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

sick-bed

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From this reading His face has got thinner this last week: he has the sunken eyes, the neglected beard of a man just risen from a sick-bed.

spectacles

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

Stoniton

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From this reading An upper room in a dull Stoniton street, with two beds in it—one laid on the floor.

street

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From this reading An upper room in a dull Stoniton street, with two beds in it—one laid on the floor.

struggled

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

sunken

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From this reading His face has got thinner this last week: he has the sunken eyes, the neglected beard of a man just risen from a sick-bed.

ten

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

that

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

The

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From this reading The Eve of the Trial

thinner

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From this reading His face has got thinner this last week: he has the sunken eyes, the neglected beard of a man just risen from a sick-bed.

this

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From this reading His face has got thinner this last week: he has the sunken eyes, the neglected beard of a man just risen from a sick-bed.

Thursday

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

to

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

told

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From this reading You would hardly have known it was Adam without being told.

Trial

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From this reading The Eve of the Trial

two

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From this reading An upper room in a dull Stoniton street, with two beds in it—one laid on the floor.

upper

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From this reading An upper room in a dull Stoniton street, with two beds in it—one laid on the floor.

wall

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

was

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From this reading You would hardly have known it was Adam without being told.

week

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From this reading His face has got thinner this last week: he has the sunken eyes, the neglected beard of a man just risen from a sick-bed.

which

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

while

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

window

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From this reading It is ten o’clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.

with

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From this reading An upper room in a dull Stoniton street, with two beds in it—one laid on the floor.

without

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From this reading You would hardly have known it was Adam without being told.

would

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From this reading You would hardly have known it was Adam without being told.

You

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From this reading You would hardly have known it was Adam without being told.