Adam Bede gives a rose to Hetty

Colored illustration of a man watching a young woman put a rose in her hair. They stand in an orchard with a basket of currants at their feet.

Adam takes a pink rose that he had put in his button hole and gives it to Hetty, who puts it in her hair while she thinks of Arthur Donnithorne. Adam watches her and thinks about how his mother would disapprove of Hetty's love of finery (Book 2, Chapter 20).

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1912

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