20. Adam Visits The Hall Farm-2

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“I frightened you,” he said, with a delicious sense that it didn’t signify what he said, since Hetty seemed to feel as much as he did; “let me pick the currants up.” That was soon done, for they had only fallen in a tangled mass on the grass-plot, and Adam, as he rose and gave her the basin again, looked straight into her eyes with the subdued tenderness that belongs to the first moments of hopeful love. Hetty did not turn away her eyes; her blush had subsided, and she met his glance with a quiet sadness, which contented Adam because it was so unlike anything he had seen in her before. “There’s not many more currants to get,” she said; “I shall soon ha’ done now.” “I’ll help you,” said Adam; and he fetched the large basket, which was nearly full of currants, and set it close to them.

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