Excerpt from Adam Bede: A Play, Dramatized From George Eliot's Novel Occasionally a young girl passes across the wide opening of the dairy. The girl is but seventeen and distractingly pretty. Her curling hair shows beneath her coquettishly fluted cap. Hetty's cheeks are pink as a rose petal, her dark lashes are long, she has dimples in cheeks and arms. She wears a low bodice Of plum-colored cloth, with a white neckerchief spotted with pink, which is tucked inside her bodice. Her ankle-length skirt is of the plum-colored cloth, almost covered with a big linen butter making apron with a bib. She wears brown stockings and neat little shoes with large square steel buckles. Her sleeves are turned up above the elbows. She tosses the butter She is making with pretty and graceful gestures, with great play of her pouting lips and much making of eyes. She makes little patting and rolling movements with the palm Of her hand and the but ter is like marble under a pale yellow light. As she works she sings snatches of Walking in the Dew Makes the Milk Maids Fair - Old English. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.