Adam Bede

“Yes,” said Adam, heavily. “A sad thing’s happened. I didna find Hetty at Snowfield.” Mr. Poyser’s good-natured face showed signs of troubled astonishment. “Not find her? What’s happened to her?”

Love, seduction, child-murder, trial, and Dinah's counterweight drive moral causality into catastrophe then quiet repair, so plot scores 88.

Hetty Sorrel. I’ve been much drawn out in prayer for her of late, and I look on it as a token that there may be mercy in store for her.” “God grant it,” said Seth.

Adam, Hetty, Dinah, and Arthur embody four temperaments under provincial judgment — craft, vanity, vocation, and careless privilege, so cast scores 90.

It has long been my wish that he should have the management of the woods on the estate, which happen to be very valuable, not only because I think so highly of his character, but because he has the knowledge and the skill which fit him.

Pastoral breadth of dairy and workshop slows the middle before trial and Snowfield search accelerate into catastrophe, so pace scores 84.

With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader.

Ink-drop opening, Loamshire dialect, and Chase panic already fuse landscape with moral psychology, so prose scores 91.

How relieved she was when she had got safely under the oaks and among the fern of the Chase! Even then she was as ready to be startled as the deer that leaped away at her approach.

Hayslope, Hall Farm, the Chase, and Snowfield map a Midlands moral ecology of work, class, and chapel, so world scores 90.

With this drop of ink at the end of my pen, I will show you the roomy workshop of Mr. Jonathan Burge, carpenter and builder, in the village of Hayslope, as it appeared on the eighteenth of June, in the year of our Lord 1799.

The sorcerer-ink promise immediately delivers living labor and provincial voice, so hook scores 89.

I know a man must have the love o’ God in his soul, and the Bible’s God’s word. But what does the Bible say? Why, it says as God put his sperrit into the workman as built the tabernacle.

Centering craftsmen and Methodist women shifts the English novel away from drawing-room monopoly, so innov scores 86.

“Why, there’s Mr. and Mrs. Poyser coming in at the yard gate,” said Seth. “So there is,” said Dinah. “Run, Lisbeth, run to meet Aunt Poyser. Come in, Adam, and rest; it has been a hard day for thee.”

Adam and Dinah's peace after catastrophe restores without erasing Hetty's ruin — the hard-day coda is earned, so ending scores 88.