For 10 points, name this novel by George Eliot about a virtuous carpenter.
One character in this novel hides a pair of candles and some earrings in a locked box in her bedroom so she can pretend to be married. At a coming of age party in this novel, Totty breaks a string of beads, causing its main character to pick up a locket containing hair belonging to his lover. This novel's seventeenth chapter, "In Which the Story Pauses a Little," interrupts the narrative to address an imaginary reader's complaints about Augustus Irwine. Its protagonist falls in love with the niece of the Poysers, and manages the shop of Jonathan Burge. This novel is set in Hayslope, and climaxes with a woman being sentenced to death for abandoning her child. Its main character marries the Methodist preacher Dinah Morris after feuding with Arthur Donnithorne over Hetty Sorel. For 10 points, name this novel by George Eliot about a virtuous carpenter.
One character in this novel hides a pair of candles and some earrings in a locked box in her bedroom so she can pretend to be married.
Adam Bede