Scene from Adam Bede by George Eliot, c1885. Artist: William Small

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Scene from Adam Bede by George Eliot, c1885. The horror that rushed over Adam completely mastered him. He made not a single movement, but knelt like an image of despair. Adam Bede, having got the better of Arthur Donnithorne in a fight, is horrified to see his rival lying unconscious. From Adam Bede by George Eliot. (London, c1885). First published London, 1859.

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