In the neighbourhood, too, are "Arkwright's mills there at Cromford," casually alluded to by Adam Bede; and should the tourist happen to enter one of the cottages of grey stone, with blue-washed door and window-frames, he may still alight on specimens of Methodism, as devout as seth Bede, eloquently expounding the latest political event by some prophecy of Daniel or Ezekiel.
"George Eliot"
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In short, one breathes the atmosphere in which such characters as Dinah and seth actually lived and had their being.
"George Eliot"
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