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• “Mrs. Poyser accepted this compromise, but thought it advisable to bar and bolt to the utmost; and now, at the last moment before starting, Nancy, the dairy-maid, was closing the shutters of the house-place, although the window, lying under the immediate observation of Alick and the dogs, might have been supposed the least likely to be selected for a burglarious attempt.”

  Adam Bede

• “And the other family party, with Mr. Craig for company, went back to the pleasant bright house-place at the Hall”

  Adam Bede

• “Everybody was come back from the meadow; and when Hetty and Adam entered the house-place, Mr. Poyser was seated in the three-cornered chair, and the grandfather in the large arm-chair opposite, looking on with pleasant expectation while the supper was being laid on the oak table.”

  Adam Bede

• “Martin Poyser and the grandfather were not yet come in from the meadow: every one was in the meadow, even to the black-and-tan terrier — no one kept watch in the yard but the bull-dog; and when Adam reached the house-door, which stood wide open, he saw there was no one in the bright clean house-place.”

  Adam Bede

• “She was not in the house-place when he entered, and he sat talking to Mr. and Mrs. Poyser for a few minutes with a heavy fear on his heart that they might presently tell him Hetty was ill.”

  Adam Bede

• “So he turned, with rather a heavy heart, into the house-place.”

  Adam Bede

• “Adam said, in a tone of encouraging command; and Gyp, apparently satisfied that duty and pleasure were one, followed Lisbeth into the house-place.”

  Adam Bede

• “In other respects there is little outward change now discernible in our old friends, or in the pleasant house-place, bright with polished oak and pewter.”

  Adam Bede

• “The whole party was assembled in the house-place when”

  Adam Bede

• “The tall buildings round the yard shut out a good deal of the sky, but the large window let in abundant light to show every corner of the house-place.”

  Adam Bede

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