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0"I came on an errand for Mother," said Adam. "She's got a touch of her old complaint, and she wants Dinah to go and stay with her a bit."02br
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00"Well, we'll 01u00spare02u00 her for your mother a little while," said Mr. Poyser. "But we wonna 01u00spare02u00 her for anybody else, on'y her husband."02br
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00"Husband!" said Marty, who was at the most prosaic and literal period of the boyish mind. "Why, Dinah hasn't got a husband."02br
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00"01u00Spare02u00 her?" said Mrs. Poyser, placing a seed-cake on the table and then seating herself to pour out the tea. "But we must 01u00spare02u00 her, it seems, and not for a husband neither, but for her own megrims. Tommy, what are you doing to your little sister's doll? Making the child naughty, when she'd be good if you'd let her. You shanna have a morsel o' cake if you behave so."02br
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00What does "spare" mean in that passage?0230hrefhttp://eliot.thefreelibrary.com/Adam-Bede/6-1#spare