¡¶The Mill on the Floss¡·


 Book 1 CHAPTER 1

    Outside Dorlcote Mill

    A IDE plain, s green banks to tide, ruso meet it, cs passage uous embrace. On ty tide ted fir-planks, ter of coal - are borne along to to Oggs, ed red roofs and ts inging ter  purple ransient glance of tretcures and tcoucint of tender-bladed autumn-so still of t years golden clusters of bee- intervals beyond tudded rees: tant so be lifting ts and stretc by toributary Ripple flo into ttle river is s dark, cs! It seems to me like a living companion o its loo tone bridge... And te Mill. I must stand a minute or t, tening, and it is far on in ternoon. Even in time of departing February it is pleasant to look at - pero trimly-kept, comfortable ds t ser it from t. tream is brim full nole ation, and  in front of t tream, te brigening tline of t trunks and branc gleam from under tness, and envy te ducks t are dipping to ter he drier world above.

    ter and to en t curtain of sound, sting one out from t  ting sadly dry in t te   touc till rong, submissive, meek-eyed beasts,   t a ! See retco t t seem to grasp t tient strengt ty muscles of truggling o  necks freed from trils into t a ser pace and t turning berees.

    Nourn my eyes tocing s diamond jets of er. t little girl is c too: sanding on just t at ter ever since I paused on t queer o be leaping and barking in ineffectual remonstrance  is so rapt in its movement. It is time ttle playfello in, I t fire to tempt  s under t is time too for me to leave off resting my arms on tone of this bridge... .

    A I anding on t of Dorlcote Mill as it looked one February afternoon many years ago. Before I dozed off, I o tell you ulliver alking about as t by t fire in t- very afternoon I have been dreaming of.

 CHAPTER 2

    Mr tulliver of Dorlcote Mill, Declares ion about tom

    ` I , you knoulliver, `, is to give tom a good eddication: an eddication asll be a bread to  ice for o leave t Ladyday. I mean to put o a do t to make a miller and farmer of  more sc: all t o birc one end and t at t I som to be a bit of sc be up to tricks otalk fine and e s and arbitrations and t make a do a sort o engineer, or a surveyor, or an auctioneer and vallyer, like Riley, or one otiss and no outlay, only for a big cool. tty nig far off being even  looks anoted at ulliver o o t is since fan-s be so near coming in again. At t time, y, t St Oggs and considered s things.)

    `ell, Mr tulliver, you kno: Ive no objections. But  I better kill a couple o foo dinner next er Glegg and Sister Pullet  to say about it? ts killing!

    `You may kill every fo I s nor uncle o do ulliver, defiantly.

    `Dear , said Mrs tulliver, s toric, `alk so, Mr tulliver? But its your o speak disrespectful o my family, and Sister Glegg t as t  lucky for my co s and uncles as can live independent. oms to go to a nery bit, bless int  t as mucuals as most, thank God.

    `ell,  send  o reac, if ot in, said Mr tulliver. `But you mustnt put a spoke i t t get a scs t I o find ick i t step over it. Youd  me not to  a mole on his face.

    `Dear ! said Mrs tulliver, in mild surprise, `o a man, because  a mole on  I cant remember your iver offering to ulliver. t a mole on  died o tion, as urnbull for attending   o sig o kno, Mr tulliver?

    `No, no, Bessy; I didnt mean justly t it to stand for summat else; but niver mind - its puzzling alking is.  Im to find t sort o sco send tom to, for I migaen in again, as Ive been o do o, it s be a Cademy. It sime i summat else besides blacking tting up tatoes. Its an uncommon puzzling to know w sco pick.

    Mr tulliver paused a minute or to s as if o find some suggestion tly  disappointed, for ly said, `I knoalk it over  arbitrate about the dam.

    `ell, Mr tulliver, Ive put ts out for t bed, and Kezias got em  t t ss, but to sleep in, be  s, I s buying em, only to lay us out in. An if you o die to-morroulliver, tiful, an all ready, an smell o lavender as it ud be a pleasure to lay em out. An t t-, at t as I srust anybody to look em out but myself.

    As Mrs tulliver uttered t sentence s bunc, and single out one, rubbing   tulliver ible man in ions,   s to aid ion in anticipating t e to justify tion of t s.  so: ible in respect of  to er-po listening very closely, and, since ion of Mr Riley, ly occupied in a tactile examination of ockings.

    `I t it, Bessy, er a s silence. `Rileys as likely a man as any to knoo all sorts o places, arbitratin and vallyin and t. And o talk it over to-morroom to be suc o man as Riley, you knoalk pretty nig e out for  o  mean muc lay oo.

    `ell, said Mrs tulliver, `so far as talking proper and knoting  mind t up to t. But talking men from toly -fronts; till its all a mess, and t oms to go and live at Mudport, like Riley, co turn in, an niver get a fres, ansleep up tairs - or four, for  to deats down.

    `No, no, said Mr tulliver, `Ive no ts of o Mudport: I mean o set up  St Oggs close by us, an live at , continued Mr tulliver after a pause, ` afraid on is, as tom  got t sort o brians for a smart fello  sloer your family, Bessy.

    `Yes, t ulliver, accepting t proposition entirely on its os, ` in  hers before him.

    `It seems a bit of a pity, tulliver, `as take after tead o ttle  ont ly calkilate . ttle un takes after my side, noe as tom. too cute for a inued Mr tulliver, turning  on one side and ts no misctle un, but an over cute ter nor a long-tailed sc.

    `Yes, it is a misctle un, Mr tulliver, for it all runs to naugo keep  me i mind, continued Mrs tulliver, rising and going to t knoty nigea-time. A so - er, like a umble in same day.

    Mrs tulliver rapped ted more turned to her chair.

    `You talk o cuteness, Mr tulliver, s do Im sure t i some tairs to fetcs  o ur, all ting for airs. t niver run i my family, tter. I dont like to fly i t it seems  one gell, an her so comical.

    `Pooulliver, `sraigo see. I dont knohe parson.

    `But  curl all I can do  and s  put i paper, an Ive suco make and and  pinchirons.

    `Cut it off - cut if off s, said ther, rashly.

    `alk so, Mr tulliver? Soo big a gell, gone nine, and tall of o  s; an t a ro seems er Deane s pretty cakes more after me nor my oone of fulness, as take of nature entered telling you to keep aer? Youll tumble in and be dro do as motold you.

    Maggies , painfully confirmed ion: Mrs tulliver, desiring er to  cut too s in front to be pus raiger it aken out of paper, Maggie ly tossing o keep t of ion wland pony.

    `O dear, O dear, Maggie, o t doake it upstairs, t your  your otctle lady.

    `O motly cross tone, `I dont  to do my patchwork.

    `, not your pretty patco make a counterpane for your aunt Glegg?

    `Its foolisoss of earing to pieces to seoget  to do anyt Glegg - I dont like her.

    Exit Maggie, dragging  by tring, wulliver laughs audibly.

    `I  you, as youll laug ulliver, said tic fretfulness in one. `You encourage iness. An s s me spoils her.

    Mrs tulliver empered person - never cried ted, in s, ty and amiability. But milk and mildness are not t turn only a little sour tomacen upid expression, kept ty undisturbed rong- a little too old to do  clot o feeble remonstrance, getting more and more peevis became more and more ineffectual.

 CHAPTER 3

    Mr Riley Gives om

    tleman in te cravat and s-frill, taking er so pleasantly ulliver, is Mr Riley: a gentleman  ed for an auctioneer and appraiser, but large-ed enougo s deal of bonory acquaintances of able s. Mr Riley spoke of sucances kindly as `people of tion o a pause. Mr tulliver, not  a particular reason, ained from a sevental of tort by led by arbitration, and e at all about t of er if everybody  made tulliver raditional opinions; but on one or ts rusted to ed intellect and  several questionable conclusions, among t, t rats, ed by Old o tell  t Manic  to-day it  triump: ter-po it one ers er, but, big a puzzle as it   got tter of Riley. Mr tulliver took er a little stronger t be supposed to  iously open in expressing imate of alents.

    But t of conversation t  could alaken up again at t and exactly in tion; and t, as you kno of Mr Rileys advice. ticular reason for remaining silent for a s space after  draugative manner.  a man to make an abrupt transition. ten said, and if you drive your ient. spur, one  ient in aking copious snuff, and sipping gratuitous brandy and er.

    `t i my ulliver at last, in ratone turned eadfastly at his companion.

    `Aone of mild interest. ly tances. ty of face and t of taking a pincrebly oracular to Mr tulliver.

    `Its a very particlar t on, `its about my boy tom.

    At ted on a loool close by t roused Maggie oms name served as  ant scerrier suspecting misc all events determined to fly at any one  toom.

    `You see, I  to put o a neulliver, ` Ladyday, an I s er; but after t I  to send o a downrigheyll make a scholard of him.

    `ell, said Mr Riley, `ter advantage you can give ion. Not, e significance, `not t a man cant be an excellent miller and farmer and a so t mucer.

    `I believe you, said Mr tulliver, urning  ts  mean tom to be a miller and farmer. I see no fun i t: o take to ting at me as it ime for me to lay by an tter end. Nay, nay, Ive seen enoug  off before I go to bed. I som an eddication an put o a business, as  for   to pus o mine. Pretty   off  afore Ive lost my teeth.

    tly a point on  strongly, and tus ill unexed for some minutes after motion of to side, and an occasional `Nay, nay, like a subsiding growl.

    toms  o tom, it appeared, urning  of doors, and of making ture in some ragic by  to be borne, and Maggie jumped up from ool, forgetting all about ween  voice,

    `Fatom  be naugo you ever, I know .

    Mrs tulliver  of tending a cullivers  ouc scolded about tly picked it up and looked at it enderness in ted tle girl on t ween his knees.

    `, tnt say no om, eulliver, looking at Maggie urning to Mr Riley, as t ands alking about so as never s bad - its bad, Mr tulliver added, sadly, cation, `a ll turn to trouble, I doubt. But, bless you! - ation ery - `sand em, better nor he folks as are growed up.

    Maggies co flusriump excitement: s Mr Riley   nothing of her before.

    Mr Riley urning over ts  ly looked at her and said,

    `Come, come and tell me somet tures - I  to knohey mean.

    Maggie   ation to Mr Rileys elboossing back her mane, while she said,

    `O, Ill tell you  means. Its a dreadful picture, isnt it? But I cant  it. t old ers a c o find out  a c only a poor silly old   do  up to  ell you  a rigakes t and sets people doing ener in t em, t make em do w he pleased.

    Mr tulliver ened to tion of Maggies rifying wonder.

    ` book is it t  out, at last.

    `quot;tory of t; by Daniel Defoe; not quite t book for a little girl, said Mr Riley. ` among your books, tulliver?

    Maggie looked  and discouraged, wher said,

    `s one o t at Partridges sale. ts a good binding, you see - an I t taylors quot;; among em; I read in it often of a Sunday (Mr tulliver felt somey  great er because  more of em, sermons mostly, I t t t t it seems one mustnt judge by tside. this is a puzzlin world.

    `ell, said Mr Riley, in an admonitory patronising tone, as ted Maggie on to put by tory of ttier book. tier books?

    `O yes, said Maggie, reviving a little in to vindicate ty of  pretty - but I like tures, and I make stories to tures out of my o quot;amp;Aelig;sops Fablesquot; and a book about kangaroos and t;Pilgrims Progress... quot;

    `Aiful book, said Mr Riley. `You cant read a better.

    `ell, but t deal about t, said Maggie, triumply, `and Ill sure of rue s ian.

    Maggie ran in an instant to t once,  t trouble of searc ture sed.

    `o Mr Riley, `And tom coloured s  his eyes.

    `Go, go! said Mr tulliver peremptorily; beginning to feel ratable at to create las alk. It is as I t - ter your mother.

    Maggie s up t once,  not being inclined to see after ter by going into a dark corner beooms absence, neglecting its toilette, but lavis t ted unhy appearance.

    `Did you ever ? said Mr tulliver, as Maggie retired. `Its a pity but  t oer cute - bein a good-looking oo, an come of a rare family for managing - but I picked ers o purpose cause s  a-goin to be told ts o t, you see,  sort o soft upid lads and cute s like as if turned topsy-turvy. Its an uncommon puzzlin thing.

    Mr Rileys gravity gave le under tion of his pinch of snuff, before he said,

    `But your lads not stupid, is , busy making fisackle; e up to it.

    `ell,  not to say stupid -  a notion ot o door, an a sort o commonsense, as   ongue, you see, and  poorly, and cant abide tell me, an as srangers, an you never e ttle  is, to send o a sc nimble ongue and  c my son to be even  tart o me ter sc but  as God made it, I could  ofem; but t so ted round and  a bit like em, as Im clean at fault, often an often. Everyt so - traighe more youre puzzled.

    Mr tulliver took a draug slo a perfectly sane intellect is  his insane world.

    `Youre quite in t of it, tulliver, observed Mr Riley. `Better Spend an extra ion t ried to do so by a son of mine, if Id  your ready money to play ulliver; and I ers into the bargain.

    `I daresay, noom, Said Mr tulliver, not diverted from h Mr Rileys deficiency of ready cash.

    Mr Riley took a pinc Mr tulliver in suspense by a silence t seemed deliberative, before he said,

    `I kno ts  is, I  recommend any friend of mine to send a boy to a regular sco do better. But if any one ed o get superior instruction and training,  master a first-rate felloion to everybody, because I dont tting it, if o try: but I mention it to you, tulliver - between ourselves.

    tulliver ce eager.

    `Ay, nos ing  ant communications.

    `entiously, sting  Mr tulliver to observe t of timulating information.

    `! a parson? said Mr tulliver, ratfully.

    `Yes - and an M.A. tand, t   curacy.

    `Aulliver, to om, then?

    ` is, eaco keep up udies, and a clergyman  little opportunity for t in ies. o take one or to fill up ime profitably. te of t tellings eye continually.

    `But do you tulliver, s dreadful to tintin him.

    `And ulliver,  told  this admirable M.A. would bear a high price.

    `y  pupils, and  to be mentioned elling, ty t one of t Oxford said, `Stelling mig t   care about university  man - not s noisy.

    `Ater, a deal better, said Mr tulliver. `But a ys an uncommon price. I never t o payin so muc.

    `A good education, let me tell you, tulliver - a good education is c t Stelling is moderate in erms -  a grasping man. Ive no doubt ake your boy at a s  get many oto do. Ill e to  it, if you like.

    Mr tulliver rubbed  t in a meditative manner.

    `But belike ulliver in terval, `an Ive no opinion o ook  o t bed an packed emup an sent em as unknoott  ud break my  to send tom , Mr tulliver.

    `You may set your mind at rest on t score, Mrs tulliver, said Mr Riley, `for Stelling is married to as nice a little tle soul in t curly  family, and its not every offer t  quarter. But Stellings not an everyday man. Raticular felloo to be connected  I tion to take your son - I t, on my representation.

    `I dont kno toucion, `a nice freso see.

    `But tulliver, turning  Mr Riley, after a long perusal of t. `ouldnt a parson be amost too  to bring up a lad to be a man o business? My notion o t a sort o learning as lay mostly out o sig isnt  for tom. I  o knoe like print, and see into t folks mean, and o  actionable. Its an uncommon fine t is, concluded Mr tulliver, s a man kno paying for it.

    `O my dear tulliver, said Mr Riley, `youre quite under a mistake about t scers are of ters  of men generally...

    `Ay, t Jacobs is, at terposed Mr tulliver.

    `to be sure - men  likely. Noleman by profession and education: and besides t,  . t you may depend upon it, Stelling is not one of ts  me tell you. Drop  and ts enougalk of figures, noo Stelling, `I  my son to be a tician, and you may leave t to him.

    Mr Riley paused a moment, o clerical tutorso an imaginary Mr Stelling tatement, `I  my son to knoic.

    `You see, my dear tulliver, Mr Riley continued, `ed man, like Stelling,  no loss to take up any brancruction. ools, he can make a door as well as a window.

    `Ay, ts true, said Mr tulliver, almost convinced no t be t of scers.

    `ell, Ill tell you  do it for everybody. Ill see Stellings fat back to Mudport to say t you elling e to you, and send you erms.

    `But tulliver, `for I ulliver, you  let tom begin at  t ter, and you see .

    `Ay, ay, Bessy, never bre upo Micap, said Mr tulliver,  Mr Riley ural pride of a man . `But its true t it there, Bessy.

    `It mig to defer t too long, said Mr Riley, quietly, `for Stelling may ions from oties, and I knoake more ter on t elling at once: ty for sending t I  nobody forestalls you.

    `Ay, t i t, said Mr tulliver.

    `Fatolen unperceived to ening ed lips, urvy and cruss nose against t a long o go? S o see him?

    `I dont know, my wencenderly. `Ask Mr Riley, he knows.

    `Maggie came round promptly in front of Mr Riley, and said, `, please Sir?

    `O a long  gentleman ans c naugo jocosely. `You must borros to get to him.

    `ts nonsense! said Maggie, tossing ily and turning aears springing in o dislike Mr Riley: it   her silly and of no consequence.

    `ions and ctering, said  dotle stool and ongue, do. But, added Mrs tulliver,  wash him and mend him?

    `About fifteen miles - ts all, said Mr Riley. `You can drive te comfortably. Or, Stelling is a able, pleasant man; o ay.

    `But its too far off for t, said Mrs tulliver, sadly.

    trance of supper opportunely adjourned ty, and relieved Mr Riley from ting some solution or compromise - a labour elling to ulliver  any positive expectation of a solid, definite advantage resulting to anding tle indications to trary y if it o get on a , and sagacity persuaded t men usually act and speak from distinct motives, ain to e its energies on imaginary game. Plotting covetousness and deliberate contrivance in order to compass a selfis but in tist: too intense a mental action for many of our felloy of t is easy enougo spoil t taking so mucrouble:  by lazy acquiescence and lazy omission, by trivial falsities for ravagances, by maladroit flatteries and clumsily improvised insinuations. e live from o mout of us, e desires - tle else tco satisfy t years crop.

    Mr Riley  cold to, yet even ings ted designs. e understanding er Stelling; on trary tle of t M.A. and s - not quite enougo  so strong a recommendation of o ulliver. But elling to be an excellent classic, for Gadsby  cousin utor: e observation ure of t t Mudport Free Scanding Latin generally, icular Latin  ready. Doubtless tle aroma from act ute and t it o be distinctly recognisable as classical, and ioneering style. telling  icians. But a man ion could teacelling,  dinner on a political occasion and ted  it impsons o be expected of a Mudport man from t Ursula t  omit to do a good turn to a son-in-laimpsons, for timpson  useful and influential men in to put into t e apart from any money ed t, from less s into  isfaction to o say to timpson on urn impson ers: Mr Riley felt for impsons face s lig to  on a Sunday for nearly fifteen years: it ural utor. Moreover, Mr Riley kneer elling? ulliver  is alo say you o give. And if you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it ion and  your otering it, and naturally get fond of it. telling to begin  all concerning o tion of a man recommended on sucy, and  on t, t if Mr tulliver o send tom to Stelling, Mr Riley would  horoughly pig-headed fellow.

    If you blame Mr Riley very severely for giving a recommendation on suc grounds, I must say you are rationeer and appraister ty years ago, ed to manifest a delicate scrupulosity lemen of t advanced stage of morality?

    Besides, a man ain from doing a good-natured action, and one cant be good-natured all round. Nature ers an inconvenient parasite on an animal toe. If Mr Riley ion t  based on valid evidence,  elling to a paying pupil, and t  leman. Consider, too, t all t little dim ideas and complacencies - of standing impson, of dispensing advice ional respect, of saying somet empically, e ingredients t  along er to make up Mr Rileys consciousness on this occasion, would have been a mere blank.

 CHAPTER 4

    tom Is Expected

    It  to Maggie t s alloo go  to fetcom  too , Mrs tulliver said, for a little girl to go out in  bonnet. Maggie took te vierongly, and it  consequence of t ant black crop, Maggie suddenly ruser standing near, - in tive determination t t day. `Maggie, Maggie, exclaimed Mrs tulliver, sitting stout and  is to become of you, if youre so naugell your aunt Glegg and your aunt Pullet  your clean pinafore,  from top to bottom. Folks ull ts a judgment on me as Ive got suc wicked.

    Before trance  attic t ran under tcer from errier escaped from tic e retreat on a  day, oo cold: ted out all alked aloud to ten floors and ten sers festooned  a Fetisunes. trunk of a large  of eyes above t of c irely defaced by a long career of vicarious suffering. to ted as many crises in Maggies nine years of eartruggle; t luxury of vengeance ed to ure of Jael destroying Sisera in t nail roke tis occasion represented aunt Glegg. But immediately after if s be so o fancy t t  to comfort it, and make believe to poultice it  Glegg iable o beg  ernately grinding and beating t t c made ting t ic, sobbing all t expelled every ot . As at last tting quieter and ttice across ten siso t, te and broerrier urned back, trotting about and sniffing vaguely as if  ible: Maggie tossed airs, seized   putting it on, peeped and t ser  in toms coming o say, if ted, .

    `umble do, said Luke, tall broad-sy, black-eyed and black-haired, subdued by a general mealiness, like an auricula.

    Maggie paused in aggering a little, `O no, it doesnt make me giddy. Luke, may I go into th you?

    Maggie loved to linger in t spaces of ten came out o a soft  made  e din, ting motion of t stones giving  trollable force, te poening all surfaces and making ts look like faery lace- pure scent of to make Maggie feel t ttle  from side everyday life. t of speculation ions outside t case t be a painful difficulty in tercourse: a fat and floury spider, accustomed to take ed  suffer a little at a cousins table  be mutually s eac t of t opmost story - tc  on and slide doinually. S of taking tion as so anding, as her did.

    Per it necessary to recover ion  occasion, for, as s sliding on t t sce in mill-society,

    `I t the Bible, did you, Luke?

    `Nay, Miss - an not muc, said Luke,  frankness. `Im no reader, I arnt.

    `But if I lent you one of my books, Luke? Ive not got any very pretty books t o read; but t;Pugs tour of Europequot; - t ell you all about t sorts of people in t understand tures c, and smoking, you knoting on a barrel.

    `Nay, Miss, In no opinion o Dutc muc them.

    `But tures, Luke -  our felloures.

    `Not mucurs, I ter, as o say, says   brinin, Im a Dutc c door. Nay, nay, I arnt goin to bot Dutc lookin i books for em.

    `O edly decided vie Dutc;Animated Naturequot; better - ts not Dutc eleps, and kangaroos, and t cat, and tting on its tail - I forget its name. tries full of tures, instead of  you like to kno them, Luke?

    `Nay, Miss, In got to keep count o t do s o t  to get tly lies, I ts printed i ted ss are, anyreets.

    `om, Luke, said Maggie, urn tion agreeably, `toms not fond of reading. I love tom so dearly, Luke - better togetell  kno I toms clever, for all  like books: iful w-pens.

    `A s are all dead.

    `Dead! screamed Maggie, jumping up from  on t, tted doe, t tom spent all o buy?

    `As dead as moles, said Luke, fetcakable corpses nailed to table wall.

    `O dear Luke, said Maggie, in a piteous tone, old me to take care ofem, and I forgot.  shall I do?

    `ell, you see, Miss, t far tool o see to em. I reckon Master tom told o feed em, but tin on ur as iver come about t  ud gripe him.

    `O Luke, tom told me to be sure and remember ts every day - but  come into my  s - and so am I sorry. O w shall I do?

    `Dont you fret, Miss, said Luke, soots - t o natur niver ty doesnt like em. s ears to lie back, an its not contrairiness to make em iff dogs. Master tom ull knoter nor buy sucime. Dont you fret, Miss. ill you come along e.

    tation offered an agreeable distraction to Maggies grief, and ears gradually subsided as srotted along by Lukes side to  cottage, s apple and pear trees, and y of a lean-to pig-sty, close by tance: sed ality in bread and treacle and possessed various . Maggie actually forgot t sood on a co look at a remarkable series of pictures representing tume of Sir C t, as miged from ive moral cer, , like t accomplisaste and strengto dispense  t ts  on o feel more ty for ticularly ure ree toned and ly of some foreign breed, seemed to insult s over t of husks.

    `Im very glad ook  you, Luke? s do wrong again.

    `E s, lets feyt he would for him.

    t  to Maggie, and s t ory of t been left a blank.

 CHAPTER 5

    tom Comes home

    tOM o arrive early in ternoon, and ttering  besides Maggies e enougo be expected; for if Mrs tulliver rong feeling, it  t quick lige of t, and  likely to respect Mrs tullivers curls and cap-strings, sside tting all t lad! But, Lord  never a collar on; its been lost on t t.

    Mrs tulliver stood  on one leg and tom descended from ticence as to tender emotions, `, are you there?

    Nevertted to be kissed  and t o fis to-morroeen years of age, look as muc broe nose and eye-broo discern anyt ter of boy as possible from poor Maggies pure seemed to  decided intention. But t same Nature self under t simple people te ly preparing a refutation of t prop so turn off by t rigid inflexible purposes, some of  unmodifiable cers, and trative, rebellious girl may after all turn out to be a passive being compared e bit of masculinity erminate features.

    `Maggie, said tom, confidentially, taking o a corner, as soon as  to examine aken off t from t kno in my pockets - nodding ery.

    `No, said Maggie. `odgy tom! Is it marls (marbles) - or cobnuts? Maggies  sank a little, because tom al  those games - she played so badly.

    `Marls! no - Ive stle fellos are no fun, you silly, only  see  of -.

    ` is it? said Maggie, in a  of yellow.

    `s... a... new... guess, Maggie!

    `O, I cant guess, tom, said Maggie, impatiently.

    `Dont be a spitfire, else I  tell you, said tom, ting o , and looking determined.

    `No, tom, said Maggie, imploringly, laying  . `Im not cross, tom - it  bear guessing. Please, be good to me.

    toms arm sloo yourself. I  go offee and gingerbread o purpose to save t . And  c t it be fun?

    Maggies anso toms neck and   speaking, wer a pause,

    `asnt I a good broto buy you a line all to yourself? You kno  it, if  liked.

    `Yes, very, very good... I do love you, tom.

    tom  t, and  the hooks one by one, before he spoke again.

    `And t me, because I  give in about toffee.

    `O dear, I  it  you?

    ` me? no, said tom, putting up taking out a large pocket-knife, and slo blade, atively as . then he added,

    `I gave Spouncer a black eye, I knos ing to leat going to go hered me.

    `O om - I t me, I t  you, tom?

    ` you, you silly the shows.

    `No: but if ries, I mean, in Africa,  people t you in t.

    `ell, I s a gun and s him.

    `But if you  got a gun -  t as  get away from  som?

    tom paused, and at last turned aemptuously, saying, `But t coming. s talking?

    `But I like to fancy   you om.

    `O dont bots.

    Maggies  began to flutter  tell trut once, but ser tom in trembling silence as  out, tell o soften at once oms anger of all t e a different anger from her own.

    `tom, simidly, w of doors, `s?

    `tly.

    `I t a great deal more t in my steel purse upstairs. Ill ask moto give it you.

    ` for? said tom. `I dont  your money, you silly t a great deal more money tmas boxes, because I shall be a man, and you only have five-shilling pieces, because youre only a girl.

    `ell, but, tom - if mot me give you to put into your pocket and spend, you knos ?

    `More rabbits? I dont  any more.

    `O, but tom, theyre all dead.

    tom stopped immediately in urned round to to feed em t, ening for a moment, but soon subsiding. `Ill pitco urned a love you, Maggie. You s go fiso-morroold you to go and see ts every day. he walked on again.

    `Yes, but I forgot - and I couldnt , indeed, tom. Im so very sorry, said Maggie, wears rus.

    `Youre a naugom, severely, `and Im sorry I boug love you.

    `O tom, its very cruel, sobbed Maggie, `Id forgive you, if you forgot anyt mind w you did - Id forgive you and love you.

    `Yes, youre a silly. But I never do forget t.

    `O, please forgive me, tom; my  oms arm, and laying  cheek on his shoulder.

    tom sopped again, saying in a per-emptory tone, `No listen. Arent I a good broto you?

    `Ye-ye-es, sobbed Maggie, her chin rising and falling convulsedly.

    `Didnt I t your fiser, and mean to buy it, and saved my money o purpose, and  go offee, and Spouncer foug?

    `Ye-ye-es... and I... lo-lo-love you so, tom.

    `But youre a naug  off my lozenge-box, and t, you let t drag my fis you to c, and you puse all for nothing.

    `But I didnt mean, said Maggie. `I couldnt .

    `Yes, you could, said tom, `if youd minded w you were doing. And youre a naug go fiso-morrow.

    iterrible conclusion, tom ran aoo greet Luke to him of harry.

    Maggie stood motionless, except from e or turned round and ran into to tic,  ten som om didnt love  sed to give y to  sy to tom -  to be naugo him.

    `O c came ty space of ttic. S of beating or grinding isoo miserable to be angry.

    tter sorro got o fly beyond to summer seems measureless.

    Maggie soon t stic, and it must be tea-time, and tea, and not tay up tarve ub and stay t, and tened and tom  in t, as s beub; but presently so cry again at t t mind  doo tom no ted tom to forgive  because old om didnt come to fetcion lasted in great intensity for five dark minutes beub; but trongest need in poor Maggies nature, began to le . S from beub into tic, but just tstep on tairs.

    tom oo mucerested in alk  icks  any particular reason except t  icks at sco t  to punis business ters like a practical person. But ea, tle  at t, said, `tle sister? bot Maggie and tom ogeternoon.

    `I dont knoom.   to `tell of Maggie, tom tulliver was a lad of honour.

    `,  s your coming home.

    `I  seen he plum-cake.

    `Goodness ! S droulliver, rising from  and running to t  know w know w.

    `Nay, nay, sulliver. `Youve been naugo , tom?

    `Im sure I , fatom, indignantly. `I the house.

    `Per attic, said Mrs tulliver, `a-singing and talking to ting all about meal-times.

    `You go and fetcom, said Mr tulliver, raty or  t ttle un, else s o  you knoter.

    tom never disobeyed ulliver ory man, and, as  anybody get   out rat intending to reprieve Maggies punis, een, and ic, regarding t part as open questions, but icularly clear and positive on one point, namely t :  t.

    It oms step, t Maggie airs, y. At least, roke  is a : as per-emptory as t oture forces us to submit to the world.

    But soms step and  began to beat violently ood still at top of tairs and said, `Maggie, youre to come do so om, please forgive me - I cant bear it - I om.

    e learn to restrain ourselves as  older. e keep apart  conduct ourselves in every respect like members of a y. Maggie and tom ill very muc ender fibres in t o anso Maggies fondling: so t e inconsistent ion to punisually began to kiss urn and say,

    `Dont cry t a bit o cake.

    Maggies sobs began to subside, and s out  a piece; and tom bit a piece, just for company, and te togetogete, ing resemblance to two friendly ponies.

    `Come along, Magsie, and ea, said tom at last, airs.

    So ended t morning Maggie rotting  in tepping al in t places and looking darkly radiant from under  because tom o old tom,  so put ted   feel (it oms private opinion t it didnt mucter if t o be lifted. Maggie t t of kno oms superiority, for uff and did not feel surprised at om, indeed,  Maggie tle t tone so as to  anyt do anyt-knife, and ill, er, and meant alo take care of her, make her his housekeeper, and punish her when she did wrong.

    to t  erious too t it s a perfect round, framed in all reeds, so t ter o be seen o t of te spot aloms good-o Maggie in t amicable ackle.  to  it probable t to o toms. But sten all about t ter,  ching her line away.

    Maggie ly tom dre  a large tenche grass.

    tom ed.

    `O Magsie! you little duck! Empty t.

    Maggie  conscious of unusual merit, but it om called o mar  in tened to t dipping sounds of tle rustling, as if ter  it  by t ill tom told  she liked fishing very much.

    It rotted along and sat dooget t life  go to sc ogets booming - t cnut-tree under le river, tom er-rats,  and dropped after Floss along o see tide - ter, or to see t As to tom t people  a disadvantage  Ciana passing `tures by t Ash.

    Life did com and Maggie; and yet t  ts and loves of t years  of t, - if it  t o gatiny fingers as  lisping to ourselves on tumn s t o call `Gods birds because to t novelty is  s monotony w is known?

    te star-flo my feet - ropic palms, range ferns or splendid broad-petalled blossoms, could ever te fibres es, ts fitful brig of personality given to it by tongue of our imagination, t is laden le inextricable associations ting  be in today, mig perception of   for till live in us and transform our perception into love.

 CHAPTER 6

    ts and Uncles Are Coming

    It er ullivers cely lig like feato live under a mistress  no season or circumstances could ious for a family party, even if it  been advisable to consult sister Glegg and sister Pullet about toms going to sc invite sister Deane time, said Mrs tulliver, `for srying to make t o my poor co ts and uncles.

    `Yes, yes, said Mr tulliver. `Ask o come. I never  a bit o talk  s it matter w so nobody.

    `ts ulliver; but Im sure t nor uncle, to leave em so muce for a leggicy. And ter Glegg, and sister Pullet too, saving money unkno by all terest and butter-money too - tulliver  even a s a little when she has lambs.

    `tculliver. `It takes a big loaf .  signifies your sisters bits o money  among? And your sister Deane  get em to leave all to one, I reckon, and make try cry shey are dead?

    `I dont kno em to do, said Mrs tulliver, `for my cs and uncles. Maggies ten times naugom doesnt like em, bless s more natral in a boy t ool, and t for an ogeto get off - I cant er Deanes, for ser Deane had.

    `ell, o bring  you ask t and uncle Moss too? and some o their children?

    `O dear, Mr tulliver,  put table, besides reacers and your sister dont suit ogether.

    `ell, ulliver, taking up  and  to tulliver on all points unconnected ions; but sable family indeed - as muco as any in t to it. t to   at an early age, for t  tice of ticular  family: particu-lar led gooseberries, so t no daug  to tson. Funerals ed y in tbands  t to be, and trouble or sickness, all t  to visit tunate member, usually at time, and did not stering t disagreeable trut correct family feeling dictated: if trouble , it  in tice of to s, tradition as to  t and social demeanour, and tter circumstance attending ty y to approve ts or t of families ungoverned by tradition. A female Dodson, ea and declined any sort of preserves, ter and t to ferment from  of due sugar and boiling. t ted - but in so far as ty better t is remarkable t isfied, not only  ively. t member of a family - t cer - is often t epitome of ts and traditions, and Mrs tulliver  is anyttle in ers, and still sears at terly reproac  in Mrs tulliver to be an innovator on to o ook after  least in ures and complexion, in liking salt, and in eating beans, wulliver never did.

    In ots true Dodson ly latent in tom, and ing  portable food  s and uncles om from  vie  tom al letting o t, but to be serious impedimenta in cases of flight.

    On ednesday, ts and uncles ive scents, as of plumcakes in t state, mingled  it o feel altogetom and Maggie made several inroads into tco keep aloof for a time only by being alloo carry a load of booty.

    `tom, said Maggie, as t on tree, eating tomorrow?

    `No, said tom, slo.

    `om? Beause Lucys coming?

    `No, said tom, opening -knife and  over tative manner. (It  problem to divide t very irregular polygon into ts.) ` do I care about Lucy? S play at bandy.

    `Is it tipsy-cake, ting ic poom he hovering knife.

    `No, you silly, tll be good ter. Its t to be - apricot roll-up - O my buttons!

    iterjection, t  t  satisfactory to tom, for ill eyed tfully. At last he said,

    `S your eyes, Maggie.

    ` for?

    `You never mind w for. S em well you.

    Maggie obeyed.

    `Now,  ?

    `Ill  , said Maggie, keeping  to please tom.

    ` like t, you silly. You may  if it comes to you fair, but I s give it you . Rig - you com, in a tone of exasperation, as Maggie peeped. `You keep your eyes s, now, else you s have any.

    Maggies po extend so far, indeed I fear s tom smost possible amount of puff t  bit. So s e close, till tom told o `say w-hand.

    `Youve got it, said tom, in ratter tone.

    `, t ?

    `No: ake it, said tom firmly,  piece to Maggie.

    `O, please, tom, : I dont mind - I like take this.

    `No, I s, said tom, almost crossly, beginning on his own inferior piece.

    Maggie, t o contend furtoo, and ate up y. But tom , and o look on  knoom   to almost everyt a vague sense of jam and idleness.

    `O, you greedy tom,  s to o .  of  one is naturally at a different point of vieer ones own share of puff is swallowed.

    Maggie turned quite pale. `O tom, w you ask me?

    `I  going to ask you for a bit, you greedy. You mig of it , .

    `But I ed you to  - you knoone.

    `Yes, but I  going to do  fair, like Spouncer. akes t bit, if you dont punc, and if you c ,  if I go  be a greedy.

    itting innuendo, tom jumped dotention to Yap, ion of  bitterness. Yet t dog accepted toms attention y as if reated quite generously.

    But Maggie, gifted  superior poance from t melanc still on o ted reproac to en all o  for tom. Not but t te  at all obtuse, but s it many times over, sooner tom s  - and se it  t? tears floifully t Maggie sa ten minutes; but by t time resentment began to give o tion and so look for tom. o be gone, and Yap o t t ree, om; but  sank again as so t river and t y Bob Jakin, ural function, of frig no a standstill. Maggie felt sure t Bob  very distinctly kno   stop barking, and er it, and screamed above to tell t to be frig beat error. Maggie t it very likely t ts in take off o som a little snake t , and anotime s: altogeter, perly diabolical, judging from imacy s; and to cro Maggie, and  h him.

    It must be o tom ly  omtits or a yellos and could set all sorts of traps; rees like a squirrel, and e a magical poecting oats; and o do t y, sucones after s t o. Sucies in an inferior ed y in spite of al fascination for tom; and every ime Maggie o h Bob.

    ell! t:  but to sit do , refastle o just o be.

    Maggies roublous life, and took her opium.

    Meanting all about Maggie and ting of reproac in , ally, to t rat-catc ticular affair, and spoke of t  eited of all manly feeling or pitiably ignorant of rat-catco imagine. For a person suspected of preternatural  so very villainous-looking; ts close-curled border of red  trousers  test notice, and ue, supposing it to exist, ue in rags oriously likely to remainrecognised (per is seen so seldom).

    `I knos, said Bob in a reble voice, as ing in. ` Sut Oggs -  rot-catc-catco ts. But Lors! you mun s. Dogs is no good.  dog, noinued, pointing  to myself - I did - at t-catchers barn.

    Yap, feeling tucked ail in and so toms leg, tle  for   to seem beempt for a dog who made so poor a figure.

    `No, no,  sport. Ill s and everything, when Ive done school.

    `s, Measter tom, said Bob, eagerly, `te ferrets  in a cage , ansee em fig. ts  ud be better fun amost nor seein t  t t o ts, an some o t tasted just as good, added Bob, by e or addendum, after a moments pause.

    `But, I say, Bob, said tom, in a tone of deliberation, `ferrets are nasty biting te a fello being set on.

    `Lors, y on em. If a c,  be long before  a good un - .

    At t a striking incident made t er from among t  a er-rat Bob intimated t o undergo t unpleasant consequences.

    `om, clapping tle black snout made its arroo te bank. `Seize him, lad, seize him!

    Yap agitated  declined to plunge, trying  as well.

    `Ugom, and kicked ed as a sportsman to possess so poor-spirited an animal. Bob abstained from remark and passed on, co he overflowing river by way of change.

    `, said Bob, as er up before  to it. ` ear, t o er, they was.

    `Ay, but, said tom, ion betatements t e accordant, `but ts  all over the fields ever such a way.

    I dont care about a flood comin, said Bob, `I dont mind ter, no more nor the land. Id swim - I would.

    `A if you got noto eat for ever so long? said tom, ion becoming quite active under timulus of t dread. ` op of it, like Noay to eat in it - rabbits and t mind... And Id take you in, if I sa patron.

    `I arent frigo  Id get in, an knock ts on ted to eat em.

    `A ails, said tom, not contemplating ty t tion migure age. `Id divide fair to begin hen wed see whod win.

    `In got a  of ter and tossing ails?

    `tails, said tom, instantly fired o win.

    `Its yeads, said Bob, ily, snatc fell.

    `It , said tom, loudly and peremptorily. `You give me t fair.

    `I s, said Bob,  tig.

    `t, said tom.

    `You cant make me do not, said Bob.

    `Yes, I can.

    `No, you cant.

    `Im master.

    `I dont care for you.

    `But Ill make you care, you c, said tom, collaring Bob and shaking him.

    `You get out om a kick.

    toms blood  at Bob  Bob seized  it like a cat, and pulled tom doer ruggled fiercely on t or till tom, pinning Bob do ery.

    `You say youll give me ty, he command of Bobs arms.

    But at t, Yap, o tion, and saunity for biting Bobs bare leg not only y but eetead of surprising Bob into a relaxation of  a fiercer tenacity, and ion of om back uppermost. But no purc eet Bob,  go om and almost ttling Yap, flung o time tom  of som fell upon  .

    `You give me tom.

    `take it, said Bob, sulkily.

    `No, I s take it - you give it me.

    Bob took t of  and t away from he ground.

    tom loosed  Bob to rise.

    `t  your   it. But you ed to c: I e a c. I s go along urning round   casting a regret to-catc relinquisy.

    `You may let it alone, t after  if I like - t, but Ill take care you dont... . An youre a nasty figurkey-cock, you are... .

    tom  looking round, and Yap followed ed his passions.

    `Go along  oting louder, in a last effort to sustain  tom  to be provoked into turning round, and Bobs voice began to falter a little as she said,

    `An In gien you everyted noter toms retreating footsteps. But it produced no effect, except t terrible void in , no knife was gone.

    ood still till tom e and disappeared be  vex tom, and pride or resentment -knife.  entreating t c familiar rougen grasped for mere affection as it lay idle in . And t been s is life  a pocket-knife to asted a ence? No: to ter tc is a compre of desperation, but to t-knife after an implacable friend is clearly in every sense a o t  quite a nec again after temporary separation, in opening one blade after t sensitive on t of  a cer. t fine moral aroma   muc of Bobs  could self perceptible t, for all t,  utterly a sneak and a tom ily decided.

    But tom, you perceive, ice in ice t desires to  culprits as muco be , and is troubled s concerning t amount of ts. Maggie saly tones into t is not pleasant to give up a rat-catc your mind on it. But if tom old rongest feeling at t moment,  t ions; w.

 CHAPTER 7

    Enter ts and Uncles

    tainly a  t ers. As s in Mrs tullivers arm-cial observer could  for a y som and Maggie considered t Glegg as type of ugliness. It is true sages of costume, for ten observed, no er clot  o   ster lace laid by in t-ted C Oggs  in   and crispest broo look out on t o introduce a most dream-like and unpleasant confusion bet fronts on a , but not at a sisters  at Mrs tullivers, ly by o lao knoter. But Bessy  to-day : sended t pointed and cutting allusion to Mrs tullivers bunced from eacing. Mrs tulliver ears several times at sister Gleggs unkindness on t of tronly curls, but turally administered support. Mrs Glegg co o-day - united and tilted slig practice of  and o be in a severe  knorange ippet o ing across , ed by a co be learned in times to kno  from certain constellations of small yellos upon it, and a mouldy odour about it suggestive of a damp clot, it  it belonged to a stratum of garments just old enougo ly into wear.

    Mrs Glegg co Mrs tulliver urned from a visit to tc  migc welve by hers.

    `I dont knoer Pullet, sinued. `It used to be to be as early as anot ime - and not for one sister to sit  if tered it s be my fault - Ill never be to come into a  are going a sister Deane - so be more like me. But if youll take my advice, Bessy, youll put t, sooner t it back, because folks are late as ougo ter.

    `O dear, t ime, sister, said Mrs tulliver, in one. `t be ready till  one. But if its long for you to , let me fetch you a cheese-cake and a glass o wine.

    `ell, Bessy! said Mrs Glegg, ter smile and a scarcely perceptible toss of  youd knoer better. I never did eat bet going to begin. Not but  nonsense of   one  one. You was never broug way, Bessy.

    ` can I do? Mr tulliver doesnt like  I put it half an hour earlier because o you.

    `Yes, yes, I knoing everyt till after tea, if t o suc its a pity for you, Bessy, as you  got more strengtll be . And I  gone and got a great dinner for us - going to expense for your sisters as ud sooner eat a crust o dry bread nor o ruin you ravagance - I  take pattern by your sister Deane - s tin i going to lao spend oo. A boiled joint, as you could make brotcone of empic protest, `and a plain pudding h a spoonful o sugar and no spice, ud be far more becoming.

    iter Glegg in t for tulliver never  terfo puts out its leg in a deprecating manner can be said to quarrel ones. But t of tender one, and not at all ne Mrs tulliver could make ten made before.

    `Mr tulliver says , s to do as er.

    `ell, Bessy, I cant leave your c omy savings, to keep em from ruin. And you mustnt look to s  go first - o die and leave me o go back to his own kin.

    terruption o Mrs tulliver,  to receive sister Pullet - it must be sister Pullet because t of a four-wheel.

    Mrs Glegg tossed  t t of trong opinion on t subject.

    Sister Pullet ears ullivers door, and it ly requisite t sting out, for tulliver stood ready to support  still and sears at tance.

    `iver is tter, sister? said Mrs tulliver. S an imaginative  it occurred to  toilet glass in sister Pullets best bedroom ime.

    t a furt slo do  casting a glance at Mr Pullet to see t   of black and a  t seemed to ied very tig of mere personal ease.  tion to all, good-looking  mantle and large be-feat, as a small fiso a brig s sails spread.

    It is a patic sigriking example of ty introduced into tions by a ate of civilisation - t of a fas female in grief. From ttentot to t of a s on eacectural bonnet and delicate ribbon-strings - ions! In tened cion t ceristic of grief is clest manner, so as to present an interesting problem to tic mind. If  and eyes  of tears, so oo devious step t crusoo, and ty produces a composition of forces by  just clears t. Perceiving t tears are , srings and toucure, indicative, even in t gloom, of ture dry moments tle and  t  injure , s terrible moment s t pretty studied fortuity o  e.

    Mrs Pullet brus  nicety, about titude of  t period a ruly ridiculous to an instructed eye if s measure a yard and a  sent t of fresears as so ted.

    `ell, sister, youre late: ter? said Mrs Glegg, rathey shook hands.

    Mrs Pullet sat doing up le carefully beoric.

    `It isnt time, t Mrs tulliver.

    `Died terday, continued Mrs Pullet. `An er a pause. `tapped imes, t er as came from her.

    `ell, Sops a mercy situde and empurally clear and decided; `but I cant talking of, for my part.

    `But I kno, sig anots old Mrs Sutton o tylands.

    `ell, sance as Ive ever  as muco  not on other occasions.

    `Sance as Ive seen  it all in  to t, and  ant. t many old paris.

    `And took as muc.

    `A, `s ever so many years before sors couldnt make out  o see  Cmas, s, if iver you , beginning to cry bitterly again, `to be buried o Saturday, and Pullets bid to the funeral.

    `Sopo contain  of rational remonstrance, `Sop you, fretting and injuring your  people as dont belong to you. Your poor fat Frances neit fret no more tt  making his will.

    Mrs Pullet , o finistered t at being upbraided for crying too muc  everybody  t Mrs Pullet leman farmer, and o carry o t pitcability.

    `Mrs Sutton didnt die  making ,  o sanction ears; `ours is a ric to leave as many tton. And s no leggicies, to speak on - left it all in a lump to her husbands nevvy.

    `t muc none but o leave it to. Its poor  to pinc as Im one o to die  leaving more money out at interest t its a poor tale  go out o your own family.

    `Im sure, sister, said Mrs Pullet, o take off  carefully, `its a nice sort o man as Mrs Sutton  o, for roubled o bed every nig eigold me about it o our c, and rembling in alk - quite a gentleman sort o man. I told  many mont under tors  I can feel for you. t  ter fully into ure and ure, strong stuff in small bottles, and uff in large bottles, damp boluses at a ss at eiger, I may as ake my bonnet off no out? surning to her husband.

    Mr Pullet, by an unaccountable lapse of memory, ten it. ened out ricken conscience to remedy the omission.

    `t upstairs, sister, said Mrs tulliver,  once, lest Mrs Glegg so explain  Sop Dodson ution ors stuff.

    Mrs tulliver airs er Pullet, and looking t  it on  of Bessys  stirred Mrs Gleggs sisterly compassion: Bessy  far too , considering; and soo proud to dress er Glegg gave rata of  o dress t c  a pair of sicular er Bessy some injustice, for Mrs tulliver  efforts to induce Maggie to  of  Gleggs but ts  Mrs tulliver o bury ternal bosom; for Maggie, declaring t t of nasty dye, aken an opportunity of basting it toget beef t Sunday s, and finding tly pumped on t s green ribbons so as to give it a general resemblance to a sage ctuces. I must urge in excuse for Maggie t tom   and said s Pullet, too, made presents of clot tty enougo please Maggie as ulliver certainly preferred er Pullet, not  a return of preference; but Mrs Pullet  y t as good and as pretty as sister Deanes com, on t, t t Pullet tolerable c t Glegg. tom alo go more to see eitipped  once, of course, but at  Pullets t many toads to pelt in t  to  toads and dreamed of t ss musical snuff-box. Still, it ers in Mrs tullivers absence t tulliver blood did not mix , in fact, poor Bessys cullivers and t tom, notanding o be as `contrairy as ure of  Moss, Mr tullivers sister, a large-boned  ulliver upstairs, turally to tage of Mrs Glegg, and t t sort of friger Jane  next. But tšºte-a-tšºte ailed by ttle Lucy, and Mrs tulliver o look on  pang  e unaccountable t Mrs Deane, t and sallo of all t aken for Mrs tullivers any day. And Maggie alwice as dark as usual whe side of Lucy.

    So-day,  off very carelessly and coming in  of curl, rus once to Lucy, rast beto superficial eyes age of Maggie, t s in urity tty completeness: it rast betten. Lucy put up test little rosebud mouto be kissed: everyt  - tle round neck tle straig at all snubby, tle clear eyebroo matc Maggie, taller by t Lucy . S any larger t just like Lucy tle crole sceptre in he queen was Maggie herself in Lucys form.

    `O Lucy, s out, after kissing ay om and me,  you? O kiss om.

    tom, too, o Lucy, but  going to kiss o  seemed easier on to all ts and uncles: ood looking at noticular, o so take and found it in a degree of undress t e embarrassing.

    ` Glegg tle boys and gells come into a room  taking notice ots? t  ttle gell.

    `Go and speak to your aunts and uncles, my dears, said Mrs tulliver, looking anxious and melanced to o go and have her hair brushed.

    `ell, and  Glegg, in tic ing t tom, look up. Boys as go to boarding-sc me, noom declined t pleasure, apparently, for ried to draw  your hair behind your ears, Maggie, and keep your frock on your shoulder.

    Aunt Glegg alo tic   table creatures, and migary cy tendencies. Bessys co make ty.

    `ell, my dears, said aunt Pullet, in a compassionate voice, `you gro. I doubt tgrorengt too muc t ser, sister, if I  isnt good for s t as makes   you ter Deane?

    I cant say, Im sure, sister, said Mrs Deane, sting  Maggie ical eye.

    `No, no, said Mr tulliver, `t as  matter, and some like t. But it ud be as  ud lie smooth.

    A dreadful resolve , but it ed by to knoo see ter various reasons for refusal, Mrs Deane appealed to Lucy herself.

    `You  like to stay be mother, should you, Lucy?

    `Yes, please, motimidly, blustle neck.

    `ell done, Lucy! Let ay, Mrs Deane, let ay, said Mr Deane, a large but alert-looking man ype of po be seen in all ranks of Englisy - bald cro  tour. igulliver,  it urally a joke bet Mr tulliver ed to excners in to ime t t of  more  Oggs t Miss Susan Dodson, cers, migter carriage and live in a better er Pullet. top, o a great mill-o amp; Co. tacimate female friends observed,  and still in t of spurring.

    `Maggie, said Mrs tulliver, beckoning Maggie to  of Lucys staying tled, `go and get your old you not to come in  going to Mart, you know I did.

    `tom, come out om followed willingly enough.

    `Come upstairs om, sside t to do before dinner.

    `time to play at anytom, ient of any intermediate prospect.

    `O yes, time for tom.

    tom folloairs into  once to a dra a large pair of scissors.

    ` are tom, feeling y awakened.

    Maggie ansting traighe middle of her forehead.

    `O, my buttons, Maggie - youll catc! exclaimed tom. `Youd better not cut any more off.

    Snip!  t scissors again her good fun: Maggie would look so queer.

    `om, cut it beed by o finishe deed.

    `Youll catc, you knoom, nodding ory manner, and ating a little as ook the scissors.

    `Never mind - make e! said Maggie, giving a little stamp . e flushed.

    tempting to a lad ed tting to tisfaction of making a pair of s ting mass of ood cropped in a jagged uneven manner, but o the open plain.

    `O Maggie, said tom, jumping round tons,  yourself in t so at school.

    Maggie felt an unexpected pang. S before-easing easing remarks about it, and sometriumps by tion: s  o look pretty - t  of tion - sed people to ttle girl and not to find fault  noo laug , te a ne. Sill tom laugo pale, and o tremble a little.

    `O Maggie, youll o go doo dinner directly, said tom. `O my!

    `Dont laug me, tom, said Maggie, in a passionate tone, burst of angry tears, stamping and giving him a push.

    `Nofire! said tom. ` did you cut it off for the dinner going in.

    airs and left poor Maggie to t bitter sense of t an every-day experience of  it  only t ail and exaggerated circumstances of an active imagination. tom never did t of foolisinctive discernment of urn to age or disadvantage, and so it  ty. But if tom did make a mistake of t sort  and stood by it:  mind: - if e,   - t  caugom tulliver  tes by all boys ifiable act, but t om tulliver ifiable in icular gate, and  going to be sorry. But Maggie, as sood crying before t it impossible t so dinner and endure ts,  table, and per om

    om and Lucy and  pudding and tard!  could s sob? S as ered srivial, pero als mas bills, dead loves and broken friends it  less bitter to Maggie - per ter - t itically troubles of mature life. `Aroubles to fret about by and by, is tion o us in our ced to oteously standing iny bare legs above our little socks,   moment till , as en years ago. Every one of ts  its trace and lives in us still, but sucraces  texture of our yout comes t  troubles of our cy of t merely   o  rousers, but imate penetration, a revived consciousness of  o anot  c of mere  knoo sulkiness; or o let ailed coat t `o tails already? Surely if  early bitterness, and trangely perspectiveless conception of life t gave tterness its intensity, we s poohe griefs of our children.

    `Miss Maggie, youre to come doe, said Kezia, entering t .

    `Dont, Kezia, said Maggie, angrily. `Go away!

    `But I tell you, youre to come doe: your moto Maggie and taking o raise he floor.

    `Get a  any dinner, said Maggie, resisting Kezias arm, `I s come.

    `O  stay: Ive got to  at dinner, said Kezia, going out again.

    `Maggie, you little silly, said tom, peeping into ten minutes after, `o come.  are you crying for, you little spooney?

    O it om  ter.

    But tom  altoget inclined to cry, and did not feel t Maggies grief spoiled  of ts; but  and put ing tone,

    `ont you come, t o pudding hings?

    `Ye-e-es, said Maggie, beginning to feel life a little more tolerable.

    `Very om, going a urned again at t youd better come, you kno - nuts, you know - and cowslip wine.

    Maggies tears ive as tom left ure aken off t edge of s o assert timate influence.

    Sloered locks and sloood leaning  t y cards on a side table - it oo muc toy c s doed and wished herself back again.

    Mrs tulliver gave a little scream as s sucurn t s to t serious results to table-clot betrayed to come do liking to give ress a s of carving, and Mrs tulliver t tion t of perverseness s own punis, by depriving Maggie of half her dinner.

    Mrs tullivers scream made all eyes turn to as o burn, we-leman, said--

    ` little gells t knotle gell youve picked up in the road, Kezia?

    ` ulliver in an under-tone to Mr Deane, laug. `Did you ever knole  is?

    `tle miss. Youve made yourself look very funny, said uncle Pullet, and perion o be so lacerating.

    `Fie, for s Glegg, in , severest tone of reproof. `Little gells as cut ter - not come and sit dos and uncles.

    `Ay, ay, said uncle Glegg, Meaning to give a playful turn to tion, `s be sent to gaol, I t t of  all even.

    `S Pullet, in a pitying tone, `Its very bad luck, sister, as t itll stand in o be so brown.

    `Sy c, said Mrs tulliver, ears in her eyes.

    Maggie seemed to be listening to a c flusransient poom t s out, supported by t appearance of tard. Under told you youd catc.  to be friendly, but Maggie felt convinced t tom ,  sting up from o  out into loud sobbing.

    `Come, come, my ing  to cut it off if it plagued you. Give over crying: fatake your part.

    Delicious enderness! Maggie never forgot any of ts  and t of ter, w her had done very ill by his children.

    ` co Mrs tulliver. `Itll be t take care. My fat  sort o family to w we are.

    Mrs tullivers domestic sorro t to  at ice of ers remark, but trings and dispensed te resignation.

    it tire deliverance for Maggie, for told t s and  among ty of small animals getting from under a burning-glass.

    Mrs tulliver c  moment to communicate Mr tullivers intention concerning tom, and it om o be absent. to alked of as freely as if tand not stretcen; but on tulliver manifested an unusual discretion because sly  to sco a clergyman  om,  as very muco sco a constable. Mrs tulliver  ever sister Glegg said, or sister Pullet eit at least t be able to say, if turned out ill, t Bessy  letting  it.

    `Mr tulliver, serrupting alk s time noo tell ts and uncles om, isnt it?

    `Very ulliver, rations to tell anybody o do tled, otled to send o a Mr Stelling, a parson, do Kings Lorton, tand, asll put o most things.

    tling demonstration of surprise in try congregation . It oniso ts and uncles to find a parson introduced into Mr tullivers family arrangements. As for uncle Pullet, ed if Mr tulliver  o send tom to t belonged to t extinct class of Britises and taxes,  to ce a particularly good dinner on Sunday,  dreaming t tisitution in Cate raceable origin any more tem and tars. It is melanc true, t Mr Pullet  confused idea of a bis of a baronet, or of une, t a clergyman could be a scer oo remote from Mr Pullets experience to be readily conceivable. I kno is difficult for people in tructed times to believe in uncle Pullets ignorance; but let t on ts of a great natural faculty under favouring circumstances. And uncle Pullet  natural faculty for ignorance.  to give utterance to onis.

    ` can you be going to send o a parson for? o see if they showed any signs of comprehension.

    ` scers by , said poor Mr tulliver, enacity. `Jacobs at t o sc so somebody different to Jacobs. And telling, by , is t o man I . And I mean my boy to go to  Midsummer, one of decision, tapping aking a pinch.

    `Youll o pay a sions, in general, said Mr Deane, taking snuff vigorously, as o maintain a neutral position.

    `, do you teaco kno t it  only allo becoming in o take a playful viehings.

    ` a plan i my  tom, said Mr tulliver, pausing after t statement and lifting up his glass.

    `ell, if I may be alloo speak, and its seldom as I am, said Mrs Glegg, one of bitter meaning, `I so knoo come to tin.

    `ulliver, not looking at Mrs Glegg, but at t of  to bring tom up to my o it all along, and I made up my mind by t and o put o some business, as o  capital, and I  to give ion as  me up to a notion nohen.

    Mrs Glegg emitted a long sort of guttural sound  smiled in mingled pity and scorn.

    `It ud be a fine deal better for some people, ser t introductory note, `if t the lawyers alone.

    `Is  t at Market Bewley? said Mr Deane.

    `No - not, said Mr tulliver. ` take more time to attend to em, you know.

    `A ion done t learn muc a time  ting quite an insigo t matter.

    `But  t, said Mr Glegg.

    `Ay, ay, a cool s all, said Mr tulliver,  ed course. `But ts an investment, like; toms eddication ull be so mucal to him.

    `Ay, t, said Mr Glegg. `ell, well, neigulliver, you may be rig:

    quot;, t excellent.quot;

    I remember seeing te on a  Buxton. But us t  no learning ter keep our money, e? Mr Glegg rubbed .

    `Mr Glegg, I  you, said s very unbecoming in a man o your age and belongings.

    `s unbecoming, Mrs G.? said Mr Glegg, ly at t as Ive got on?

    `I pity your s unbecoming to be making a joke wo ruin.

    `If you mean me by t, said Mr tulliver, considerably nettled, `You neednt trouble yourself to fret about me. I can manage my o troubling other folks.

    `Bless me, said Mr Deane, Judiciously introducing a ne, somebody said akem o send o a clergyman, didnt to his wife).

    `I can give no account of it, Im sure, said Mrs Deane, closing ig a o take part in a scene where missiles were flying.

    `ell, said Mr tulliver, speaking all t Mrs Glegg mig mind o a clergyman, depend on it I sake i sending tom to one. akems as big a scoundrel as Old

    to deal ell me  your meat.

    `But la a  , `its more natral to send o a clergyman.

    `Yes, said Mr Glegg, interpreting Mrs Pullets observation y, `you must consider t, neigulliver; akems son isnt likely to folloleman of him, poor fellow.

    `Mr Glegg, said Mrs G., in a tone tle, termined to keep it corked up, `youd far better ongue. Mr tulliver doesnt  to knoter than everybody else.

    `s you, if o trust your oale, said Mr tulliver, beginning to boil up again.

    `O, I say notically. `My advice  give it.

    `Itll be t time, tulliver. `Its t giving.

    `Ive been over-ready at lending, t been over-ready at giving, said Mrs Glegg. `t money to, as per o lending money to kin.

    `Come, come, come, said Mr Glegg soot Mr tulliver  to be ort.

    `Youve got a bond for it, I reckon, , kin or no kin.

    `Sister, said Mrs tulliver pleadingly, `drink your  me give you some almonds and raisins.

    `Bessy, Im sorry for you, said Mrs Glegg, very muc seizes tunity of diverting oick. `Its poor alking o almonds and raisins.

    `Lors, sister Glegg, dont be so quarrelsome, said Mrs Pullet, beginning to cry a little. `You may be struck , getting so red in ter dinner, and  just out o mourning, all of us - and all  put by - its very bad among sisters.

    `I s is bad, said Mrs Glegg. `to a fine pass es to o quarrel h her and abuse her.

    `Softly, softly, Jane - be reasonable - be reasonable, said Mr Glegg.

    But isfy  out again.

    `s to quarrel s you as cant let people alone, but must be gna em for ever. I s to quarrel  her place.

    `My place, indeed! said Mrs Glegg, getting ratters, Mr tulliver, as are dead and in treated me  sort o respect to  a  by and see me abused by t been t ha done.

    `If you talk o t, said Mr tulliver, `my familys as good as yours - and better, for it  got a damned illtempered .

    `ell! said Mrs Glegg, rising from  knoo sit by and , Mr Glegg, but Im not going to stay a minute longer in tay behe gig, and Ill walk home.

    `Dear , dear ! said Mr Glegg in a melancone, as  of the room.

    `Mr tulliver, alk so? said Mrs tulliver, ears in her eyes.

    `Let ulliver, too  to be damped by any amount of tears. `Let ter: s be trying to domineer over me again in a hurry.

    `Sister Pullet, said Mrs tulliver,  ud be any use for you to go after ry to pacify her?

    `Better not, better not, said Mr Deane. `Youll make it up another day.

    `ters, s tulliver, drying her eyes.

    No proposition could ulliver felt very mucrusive flies no of tter t ion to business allo man of ance and icity of tongue o Mr tullivers oendency t e condition. And noalk  frivolous interruption. ton ion irely ne ttle of aterloo,  many Englis  to speak of Bluculliver icular kno matter, ime; t dissidence, Mr Deane remarking t  disposed to give muc to togetisfactory cer of transactions in Dantzic beer, inclining o form raten on tulliver proceeded to express  try could never again be  used to be; but Mr Deane, attaco a firm of urally took a more lively vie, and ails to give concerning tate of ts especially in er, ion by to more distant perspective try terly ts and Radicals and t men.

    Uncle Pullet sat by and listened o tters.  understand politics  tural gift - but by on ter than he should be.

 CHAPTER 8

    Mr tulliver Shows his eaker Side

    `SUPPOSE sister Glegg s ud be very ao o raise five ulliver to  evening, as sook a plaintive revieulliver een years  sained in all ty of saying te direction to triarcly retains to t its yout it can sraigulliver ing medium for teen years  it again to-day y.

    tion of ended directly to convince Mr tulliver t it  be at all ao kno mortgaging tgage, since noo lend money  security, Mr tulliver, getting  Mrs Glegg mig calling in  in, o be beo ers. o a family o put up  Mr tulliver did not choose.

    Mrs tulliver cried a little in a trickling quiet  presently sank into a comfortable sleep, lulled by t t salk everyter Pullet tomorroake to Garum Firs to tea. Not t so any distinct issue from t talk, but it seemed impossible t past events sinate as to remain unmodified w.

    oo

    of so vague and sootner.

    Mr tulliver, ude in action t may seem inconsistent  painful sense of ted puzzling nature of e deliberations ed; but it is really not improbable t t relation betly contradictory p for getting a strong impression t a skein is tangled, tcily at a single t o titude t Mr tulliver  day - ( dyspeptic) - on o Basset to see er Moss and   naturally occurred to  e for t to o pay in time, it o lessen tullivers spirited step migo knorongly confident t it will be easy.

    For Mr tulliver ion neitriking but, like oto ive effect t  in to be a mucantial man t to believe  us, it o t of remote pity  -necked neigricken o  jokes about ages as a man  of land; and turally kept up  ance. t flavour to -day, and if it  been for ts Mr tulliver en t tgage of tead. t  altoget, since one of ters fortune, o la likely to pay off gages, especially if ances o borrooo lofty to be represented by parc. Our friend Mr tulliver ured fibre in  like to give o a sister, o t superfluous ic of sisters, creating a necessity for mortgages, but e takes by  Mr tulliver tle  o  poor Gritty imes say t tremulousness in  t lanes, s, lying so far a-to to take a part of ts on suc paris up a due amount of irritation against Moss as a man  capital, o ried to  of t  er, and not act so foolis : in fact, Mr tulliver oo easy  terest run on for t roubled about t Mr tulliver ermined not to encourage suc lanes  likely to enervate a mans resolution by softening emper. trodden  days of er gave ed a ras stimulating snarl at tless someto do ate of ted fences t met  of rongly contributed to isfaction  unlucky agriculturist. If t Mosss fallo mig   groundless. Basset  landlord, a poor non-resident vicar, and rate, also poor. If any one strongly impressed o triumpances, end t t migo urge against t abstract proposition: I only kno in point of fact t mind rict keeping s circumstances. t seemed to tomed eye to lead noo eacience, to a distant  t in Basset o a centre of dissipation spoken of formally as t among intimates as `Dickisons. A large lo of tobacco modified by undetected beer-dregs, Mr Dickison leaning against t  to t as a last nigtered candle - all t seem a very seductive form of temptation; but ty of men in Basset found it fatally alluring ory afternoon; and if any  e t  a pleasure-seeking man, s more empically t  spend a s Dickisons from one suntide to anoto find fault ainly o-day. And noto Mr tulliver te, ed to pusick t acted as gates  to do, to t to get doim-bered buildings, up to tumble-do timely appearance of a coration of a plan ermined on, namely not to get doo be   , above tant  and co tle fat  o srikingly t the cheek was faded.

    `Broto see you, sionate tone. `I didnt look for you today. how do you do?

    `Oty ty eness, as if it oo for question. S once t  in a good   ure t people ake and on ty of tient, loosely-hung, child-producing woman.

    `Your  in tulliver, after a grave pause, during w, like che hen-coop.

    `No, said Mrs Moss, `but ato-field yonders. Georgy, run to te and tell fat do you, and take something?

    `No, no; I cant get do be going ly, said Mr tulliver, looking at tance.

    `And ulliver and t daring to press ation.

    `Oty oms going to a neo me. Its bad  o my money.

    `I tle uns  to see to . And I know so come - for so be sure!

    If Mrs Moss  astute ead of being one of t, s of noto propitiate eering praise of `ttle  entirely to o insist on s. But Maggie al amiable lig  Mosss: it  anytied ore ters of course at  Mosss. In spite of ullivers eyes got milder, and  look away from er as he said,

    `Ay: ss, I takes after our family: not a bit of hers in her.

    `Moss says, s like o be, said Mrs Moss, `t I t your uncle see you: .

    Lizzy, a black-eyed ce Mill. So Maggie in fire and strengto make tirely flattering to Mr tullivers fatherly love.

    `Ay, t alike,  ttle figure in take after our mot enougty, one e, half reproachful.

    `Four of em, bless em, said Mrs Moss, roking Lizzys  a brother apiece.

    `A t turn out and fend for tulliver, feeling t y rying to brace it by t a nt look to hers.

    `No: but I , said Mrs Moss, flas imidity, like a hered fire.

    Mr tulliver gave tle stroke on t and said angrily, `Stand still o tonis of t innocent animal.

    `And t love one anot on, looking at ic purpose. But surned to but  ther.

    t arro straigo Mr tullivers .  a rapid imagination, but t of Maggie o  long in seeing ion to er side by side oms relation to Maggie. ould ttle her hard upon her?

    `Ay, ay, Gritty, said tness in one. `But Ive allays done w I could for you, ing himself from a reproach.

    `Im not denying t, broteful, said poor Mrs Moss, too fagged by toil and co rengt for any pride. `But  a while youve been, Moss.

    `? said Mr Moss, feeling out of breat you ligulliver?

    `ell, Ill just get doalk ulliver, feeling t o s of resolve if er  present.

    doo toree arbour, ood tapping fully after them.

    trance into tree arbour surprised several fo ing tcy ground, and at once took fligulliver sat doapping tick, as if ed some ion by observing, one,

    `  Corner Close, I see? and never a bit o dressing on it. Youll do no good  this year.

    Mr Moss,  air of a macient-grumbling tone, ` do as t leave it to t money to play o put o to get out of it.

    `I dont kno isnt t paying interest, said Mr tulliver,  into a slig  natural and easy introduction to calling in money.

    `I kno, said Mr Moss, `but I  year, and hings have gone awkarder nor usual.

    `Ay, snarled Mr tulliver, `ty sacks ull never stand upright.

    `ell, I dont kno youve got to find ulliver, said Mr Moss deprecatingly, `I kno a day-labourer works harder.

    `s t, said Mr tulliver, s no capital to in? I  it from t; but youd neiten to me. And I cant lie out o My money any longer; for Ive got to pay five om an expense to me, as I s, even saying Id got back all as is my o look about and see hree hundred pounds.

    `ell, if ts er be sold up and ; I must part , to pay you and too.

    Poor relations are undeniably irritating: tence is so entirely uncalled for on our part, and t aly people. Mr tulliver ting quite as mucated o say angrily, rising from ,

    `ell, you must do as you can. I cant find money for everybody else as  look to my o lie out o my money any longer. You must raise it as quick as you can.

    Mr tulliver ly out of ttered t sentence and  looking round at Mr Moss  on to tc boy ing in a state of  its alleviations, for baby  gurgling sounds and performing a great deal of finger practice on t c could never overcome  t t t  its consolations. `ont you come in, brot ulliver  already in tirrup.

    `No, no; good-by, said urning his horses head and riding away.

    No man could feel more resolute till  outside te and a little ted lane; but before  turning, ten by some sudden t, for  stand still in t for tes, during  on more sides tly, after  of promptitude, Mr tulliver o t turned  to termined t by saying aloud, as ruck his horse,

    `Poor little om, belike, when Im gone.

    Mr tullivers return into tely ran in ing neo t Mrs Moss ep o sleep in entatious s  merely said,

    `to t her.

    `No, Gritty, no, said Mr tulliver, in a gentle tone. `Dont you fret - ts all - Ill make a s  t - only you must be as cliver and contriving as you can.

    Mrs Mosss tears came again at ted kindness, and shing.

    `Come, come! - ttle  fret... Ill allays be a good broto you.

    `t ears; turning to Lizzy, sch a small paper parcel.

    `Its boiled ty: it o carry it in your pocket?

    `Ay, ay, said Mr tulliver, putting it carefully in . `Good-by.

    And so table miller returned along t lanes rato  still   if er, it migend to make tom  some distant day, ake ; for simple people, like our friend Mr tulliver, are apt to cloto  y for `ttle owards er.

 CHAPTER 9

    to Garum Firs

    roubles of Maggies future ing only tterness of t. C t is sootlived sorro o look at, and t of ternoon visit to Garum Firs  Oggs erms of tion in ut - tut - tut! in a tone of mingled disgust and pity, ion  to trongest expression of public opinion. Mr Rappit, ted coronal locks tending ed pyramid of flame on a monumental urn, seemed to  t moment t formidable of emporaries, into  at St Oggs sering t of her life.

    Moreover, tion for a visit being alo ullivers room ready an  t of t clot not be deferred till t moment, as imes trings le or no  at quite easily produced no so t tulliver ing costume ective apparatus of broure in danger of flies; Maggie ing  s if possible s of tuckers, ing, `Dont, Maggie, my dear - dont look so ugly! and toms cicularly brilliant as a relief to  blue suit, tle ed  of interest to oilette - ransferred all tents of s to tually in wear.

    As for Lucy, s as pretty and neat as serday: no accidents ever o able in t sy at Maggie, pouting and ing tucker. Maggie ainly orn it off, if s been c ion about  ting and ting and be to build till dinner, as a suitable amusement for boys and girls in t clotom build perfect pyramids of  Maggies   Maggie made, and tom  no girls could ever make anyt it  Lucy proved  building: sly and moved so gently t tom condescended to admire o teacoo emplate t ill-temper, if ucker  made om  inconsiderately laugold upid.

    `Dont laug me, tom! s out, angrily. `Im not a stupid. I kno many t.

    `O, I daresay, Miss Spitfire! Id never be suc. Lucy doesnt do so. I like Lucy better ter.

    `ts very o ing up ting toms , but tantial evidence  om turned  said notruck  o strike a girl, and tom tulliver e determined hing cowardly.

    Maggie stood in dismay and terror  up from ttered ruins of ely, like a kitten pausing from its lapping.

    `O tom, said Maggie, at last, going oo knock it do.

    tom took no notice of  took, instead, t of  and s t t first, but presently inct aim of ting a superannuated blue-bottle y in t ture, ruction of this weak individual.

    to Maggie, and toms persistent coldness to o look at t birds nest  caring to s Maggie, and peeled a c offering one to Maggie. Lucy  you like one? But tom was deaf.

    Still t of tunely spreading ail on tackyard  as to divert temporarily from personal grievances. And tiful sig Garum Firs. All tams, speckled and topknotted - Friesland urned t flety-spotted feater pigeons and a tame magpie; nay, a goat, and a es all about, and glittering iful patterns - note common at Garum Firs; and tom t t toads to terised uncle Pullets possessions as a gentleman farmer. toads urally leaner. As for t  less remarkable: it re, and ttlemented turrets, and tering ucco.

    Uncle Pullet ed party approace to unbar and unc door, kept alified condition from fear of tramps o knouffed birds in to contemplate rus a Pullet too appeared at ter op t let em come up teps: Sallys bringing t and ter, to rub their shoes.

    Mrs Pullets front-door mats ended to o do its dirty om rebelled particularly against t of an indignity to  it as t to a visit at aunt Pullets,  o  too y conclusion t a visit to Garum Firs must  treat to a young gentleman fond of animals - fond, t is, of tones at them.

    t disagreeable o  ing of tairs,  t of teps migimes as a trial by ordeal from  spotless virtue could  tairs  of bitter remonstrance on Mrs Gleggs part, but Mrs tulliver ventured on no comment, only to  was a mercy, whe landing.

    `Mrs Gray  , Bessy, said Mrs Pullet, in a patic tone as Mrs tulliver adjusted her cap.

    `er? said Mrs tulliver, erest. `And ?

    `Its apt to make a mess aking em out and putting em in again, said Mrs Pullet, dra tly, `but it ud be a pity for you to go a seeing it. t may happen.

    Mrs Pullet s t serious consideration,  a particular key.

    `Iam afraid itll be troublesome to you - getting it out, sister, said Mrs tulliver, `but I so see  of a crown shes made you.

    Mrs Pullet rose   at all. Sucion could only oo superficial acquaintance s of t o be  was a door-key.

    `You must come o t room, said Mrs Pullet.

    `May too, sister? inquired Mrs tulliver, her eager.

    `ell, said aunt Pullet, reflectively, `itll pero come - touching, if we leave em behind.

    So t in procession along t and slippery corridor, dimly ligop of tter: it e solemn. Aunt Pullet paused and unlocked a door er ligering feebly, s looked like tute in  sood s legs up rapidly.

    Aunt Pullet ter and teness y of t of rose-leaves t issued from taking out s after s of silver-paper quite pleasant to assist at, t of t at last iclimax to Maggie, ernatural. But feo Mrs tulliver. S in silence for some moments and tically, `ell, sister, Ill never speak against the full crowns again!

    It  concession, and Mrs Pullet felt it: s someto it.

    `Youd like to see it on, sister? ster a bit further.

    `ell, if you dont mind taking off your cap, sister, said Mrs tulliver.

    Mrs Pullet took off ting promontory of curls ure and judicious imes, and placing t on urned slo Mrs tulliver mig of view.

    Ive sometimes t too muc side, sister: .

    Mrs tulliver looked earnestly at ted indicated and turned o one side. `ell, I ts best as it is: if you meddled , sister, you mig.

    `ts true, said aunt Pullet, taking off t and looking at it contemplatively.

    ` s bonnet, sister? said Mrs tulliver, y of getting a ation of t home.

    Mrs Pullet scre: o  bonnet at Garum C t best be w would.

    So adjust trimmings in preparation for returning it to its place in ts seemed to aken a melancurn, for she shook her head.

    `A last, `I may never  ter; who knows?

    `Dont talk o t, sister, ansulliver. `I his summer.

    `A ter I in bonnet. Cousin Abbott may go, and  think o wearing crape less nor half a year for him.

    `t ulliver, entering to ty of an inopportune decease. `t two summers alike.

    `As t, returning t to t up. Sained a silence cerised by il to cry, ser, if you s bonnet again till Im dead and gone, youll remember I s you this day.

    Mrs tulliver felt t s to be affected, but sears, stout and  cry so mucer Pullet did, and en felt  funerals.  to bring tears into raction of tentively, felt t tery about s bonnet o understand; indignantly conscious, all t sood t, as aken into confidence.

    do observed,   - t om terval ill longer, for ed in irksome constraint on tly opposite , wwinkling grey eyes and occasionally addressed him as `Young sir.

    `ell, young sir,  scanding question ;  ogeto be seated tšºte-a-tšºte , t tom could not even look at ts on ts:  ers. Not t tom y: indeed,

    to be a gentleman farmer, because  like to be suc - a molly-coddle, in fact. A boys sering reverence: and o one remely queer. tion I can suggest to you is, t t totle. It is only ive  a gun in your  to be a truly admirable and enviable cer. At least, I am quite sure of tom tullivers sentiments on ts. In very tender years, e and making minatory gestures iculate burr, intended to strike terror into tonising, t desire for mastery over tic, including cockcers, e of so mucunes of our race. No never rode anytaller t predatory of men, considering firearms dangerous as apt to go off ticular desire. So t tom   strong reasons alk  as a nincompoop, taking care at time to observe t he was a very `rich fellow.

    ting circumstance in a tšºte-a-tšºte

    a variety of lozenges and peppermint drops about  a loss for conversation, ual solace of this kind.

    `Do you like peppermints, young sir? required only a tacit ansation of ticle in question.

    ttle girls suggested to uncle Pullet t cakes, of ock under lock and key for e eating on  days: but t tempting delicacy bet Pullet desired to abstain from eating it till tray and tes came, since  mind t mucty, s it y to eat it, but tom, cunity o in  tes, and c furtively. As for Maggie, becoming fascinated, as usual, by a print of Ulysses and Nausicaa, ty Scripture tly let fall , crus beneat - a source of so mucation to aunt Pullet and conscious disgrace to Maggie t so despair of o-day, till after some reflection, it occurred to  Lucy ure on asking for a tune. So so Lucy, and Lucy,  up quietly to une, uncle?

    Lucy t it ional talent in uncle Pullet t tiful tunes, and indeed t ligy of   to begin ood  up, and kne o play beforeoget Mr Pullets cer  of t entire nullity tributed to it.

    But uncle Pullet ed to ex , never depreciated it by a too ready consent. `ell see about it, aining from any sign of compliance till a suitable number of minutes   social occasions, and in this way fenced himself in from much painful confusion and perplexing freedom of will.

    Peren Maggies enjoyment  time se forgot t s tom ime `ty imes comforted  Maggie could look ratty noe of  om, put om, isnt it pretty?

    Lest you s sing insensibility in tom t  any neoo  tell you t  so make .  reme milksop not to say angrily, `Look tment ioned, as it ion of Maggies behaviour.

    ` you sit still, Maggie? her said peevishly.

    `Little gells mustnt come to see me if t  Pullet.

    `oo rougtle miss, said uncle Pullet.

    Poor Maggie sat do of he seven small demons all in again.

    Mrs tulliver, foreseeing not misbeook an early opportunity of suggesting, t noed after t go and play out of doors, and aunt Pullet gave permission, only enjoining t to go off ted to see try fed, to vieance on triction er t frigs feathers drop off.

    Mrs tullivers ts emporarily diverted from ternal cares, but no t o perspective and t of terdays anxieties recurred.

    `It er Gleggs leaving t er.

    `A Pullet, `ting for  speak of it out o t  to Dr turnbull - but its my belief Jane lives too loo Pullet, often and often, and .

    ` Monday , beginning to nurse er it  ion took an interesting turn.

    `Very like I did, said Mrs Pullet, `for you remember  a  inued, looking patically at er. `I so roke, for  to take my doctors stuff - and Im taking ts now.

    `t;pills as beforequot; every ot, and t eleven and four, and ture quot;uation determined by a lozenge on ongue.

    `A ud be better for sister Glegg, if so tor sometimes, instead o curkey rter ulliver,  of medicine cion to Mrs Glegg.

    `Its dreadful to t Pullet, raising ting t s flying i t are tors for, if  to call em in? And o pay for a doctor - it isnt respectable, as Ive told Jane many a time. Im asance kno.

    `ell, o be as, `for Doctor turnbull  got sucient as you ittons gone.

    `Pullet keeps all my ptles - did you kno. ` s not rigore-room s, so cry, `its  sizes. t in my room - youll remember t, sister - but to s isnt the bills.

    `Dont talk o your going, sister, said Mrs tulliver; `I so stand beter Glegg if you  you can get o make it up ulliver, for sister Deanes never o my side, and if ss not to be looked for as s an independent fortin.

    `ell, your , good-naturedly ready to use ers account as ty to our family as ake after s and uncles, and ts your bad luck, and Im sorry for you, Bessy; for you e sister, and terns.

    `I knoullivers y and says odd tulliver, ear from t Im sure o object to my making to the house.

    `I dont  to make t of you, Bessy, said Mrs Pullet, compassionately, `for I doubt youll rouble enoug t - and your  t poor sister and o la  as Id  said out o the family.

    tion urally far from co Mrs tulliver. ion  easily acted on, but s   appeared t ot it hard.

    `Im sure, sister, I cant  icipated misfortunes migributive, to take a compre conduct. `trives more for  scouring time taken do toget elder-floiful! I allays offer it along er Glegg ravagant, and as for liking to idy and not go a frig t me in respect o backbiting and making misc o s o my neigo die tomorrow I s be ashamed. A woman can do no more nor she can.

    `But its all o no use, you kno, ically on er, `if your  but  your furniture, its a comfort to t it  go all over try. It ud be a sad pity for our family. Mrs Pullet shook her head slowly.

    `But er? said Mrs tulliver. `Mr tullivers not a man to be dictated to - not if I o go to t by   pretend to kno putting out money and all t. I could never see into mens business as sister Glegg does.

    `ell, youre like me in t, Bessy, said Mrs Pullet. `And I t ud be a deal more becoming o Jane if s pier-glass rubbed oftener - ts on it last ead o dictating to folks as elling em o do  Jane and me rairy: sriped ts. You like a spot too, Bessy: .

    Mrs Pullet, affected by t reminiscence, looked at er patically.

    `Yes, Sopulliver, `I remember our e spot bot a bit in a bed-quilt no go and see sister Glegg and persuade o make it up ulliver, I sake it very kind of you. You er to me.

    `But t tulliver to go and make it up  be above t, said Mrs Pullet, y did not blind o principles: s forget o people of independent fortune.

    `Its no use talking o t, said poor Mrs tulliver, almost peeviso go doo tulliver, hed never humble himself.

    `ell, you cant expect me to persuade Jane to beg pardon, said Mrs Pullet. `empers beyond everyts  doesnt carry  to a madhouse.

    `Im not tulliver. `But if s take no notice and not call s not so mucer to ask of anotime ud mend tulliver ud forget all about it, and theyd be friends again.

    Mrs tulliver you perceive  aion to pay in t least, sucermination exceeded her powers of belief.

    `ell, Bessy, said Mrs Pullet, mournfully, `I dont  to o ruin. I  be beurn, if it is to be done. And I dont like it said among acquaintance as  quarrels in tell Jane t: and I dont mind driving to Janes tomorro doesnt mind.  do you say, Mr Pullet?

    `Ive no objections, said Mr Pullet, ented  take, so t Mr tulliver did not apply to   ments, and did not see y for urned it into land.

    After a little furto  be better for Mrs tulliver to accompany t to sister Glegg, Mrs Pullet, observing t it ea-time, turned to reace damask napkin  instead of tea-tray, Sally introduced an object so startling t bot and Mrs tulliver gave a scream, causing uncle Pullet to sed.

 CHAPTER 10

    Maggie Beed

    tartling object tle Lucy,  to -cro and discoloured  tiny blackened eous face. to account for ted apparition in aunt Pullets parlour,  return to t o play out of doors and taken possession of Maggies soul at an early period of turned in all ter force after a temporary absence. All tions of tom,  o toads ence. Seeing t a distance looking like a small Medusa urally pleased t cousin tom o  o see ickling a fat toad ring ing over ill Lucy acle also, especially as sless find a name for toad and say ories about t -  o t copper, for o fetcor. tom empt for t once as a superfluous yet easy means of proving tire unreality of sucory; but Lucy, for t , and at all events t it ty make-believe. So noo knoory of a very portly toad, added to ual affectionateness, made o Maggie and say, `O, toad, Maggie! Do come and see. Maggie said not turned ao prefer Lucy to  of  a little y little Lucy, any more to a little  tom e indifferent to Lucy before, and it  to Maggie to pet and make muc o t so make Lucy cry, by slapping or pinc migom, o slap even if s mind it. And if Lucy  been t friends h her sooner.

    tickling a fat toad  t it is possible to ex, and tom by-and-by began to look round for some otime. But in so prim a garden o go off t a great c. t pleasure sucriction allo, and tom began to meditate an insurrectionary visit to t a fields lengthe garden.

    `I say, Lucy,  significance as ring again. ` do you to do?

    `, tom? said Lucy, y.

    `I mean to go to t tan.

    `O, tom, dare you? said Lucy. `Aunt said nt go out of the garden.

    `O, I s at tom. `Nobody ull see us. Besides I dont care if they do - Ill run off home.

    `But I couldnt run, said Lucy, ation.

    `O, never mind - t be cross om. `You say I took you.

    tom rotted by imidly enjoying treat of doing somety - excited also by tion of t celebrity, t ain  to folloo lose sigs t tom and Lucy s o Maggie. So s a feceresting monster - o be so very old, so very large, and to ite. ties did not sc tom caug of somet in ter ed o anot on the pond.

    `ake care! Keep on t step o a peninsula of dry grass, rodden mud on eac; for toms contemptuous conception of a girl included ttribute of being unfit to y places.

    Lucy came carefully as s doo look at er. It er-snake, tom told  last could see tine s body, very muc a snake could s too, t ter to om did not care about . At last, som,  notice it till urned round and said,

    `No ao come.

    t  t moment to ragedy, if tragedies  tial Greek ord ing to tion; tmost Maggie could do,  of o pustle pink-and-o trodden mud.

    tom could not restrain  slaps on to pick up Lucy, ed to ts of a tree a feently. Usually ance came quickly after one ras noom and Lucy o spoil to make everybody uncomfortable. om o forgive  have been.

    `I sell motom, loudly and empically, as soon as Lucy o   toms practice to `tell, but ice clearly demanded t Maggie sed most punis: not t tom  to put  abstract form; ioned `justice, and  o punis be called by t fine name. Lucy oo entirely absorbed by t ty best clot of being  and dirty - to tirely mysterious to  so make Maggie angry  s t Maggie reaties to tom t  `tell, only running along by eously, s of tree and looked after th her small Medusa face.

    `Sally, said tom, ter in oasting-fork in ell mot he mud.

    `But Lors  near suc? said Sally, making a i.

    toms imagination  been rapid and capacious enougo include tion among t it  t tended, and t Maggie  be considered t in tly aco t pleasure of guessing oriously prefer to ready-made knowledge.

    Sally, as you are a no time in presenting Lucy at to y an object introduced into t Garum Firs oo great a ained by a single mind.

    `Goodness gracious! aunt Pullet exclaimed after preluding by an inarticulate scream. `Keep  t bring ever you do.

    `umbled into some nasty mud, said Mrs tulliver, going up to Lucy to examine into t of damage to clot o er Deane.

    `If you please, um, it oms been and said so. And t o ts only t into suc.

    `t is, Bessy - its elling you, said Mrs Pullet, in a tone of propic sadness, `its your c to.

    Mrs tulliver e, feeling ruly c pressed upon  people o deserve ernal troubles, o give elaborate directions to Sally o guard t. Meantime tea o be broug out to speak to ty co be close at  it  until after some searc som leaning  te paling of try yard, and loing turkey cock.

    `tom, you nauger? said Mrs tulliver, in a distressed voice.

    `I dont knoom. ice on Maggie  it could  about  tice of some blame on .

    `her, looking round.

    `Sitting under tree against tom, apparently indifferent to everyt tring and turkey cock.

    `tce, you naugo taking your sister w? You know so be done.

    It ullivers o refer o Maggie.

    tting alone by tual fear in Mrs tullivers mind, and sed to satisfy  of t fatal com  very quickly - on owards her.

    `ter, mine are, s reflecting t to  in dead and drownded some day. I wis river was far enough.

    But o discern Maggie, but presently saom returning from tered and took complete possession of o meet him.

    `Maggies noom, `shes gone away.

    You may conceive terrified searcy of convincing  s in t observed, t t come to a  of tea deferred and try alarmed by to and fro - took up rument of searco unlock to lie perdue in.

    tom, after a ed t Maggie  necessary to state t it ion  by her.

    `Sister, for goodness sake, let em put take me   t innocent victim,  on the sofa.

    Aunt Pullet e o take test means of restoring o order and quiet, and it  long before Mrs tulliver  t distant point before  t? ion t predominated over every other.

 CHAPTER 11

    Maggie tries Run Away from her Shadow

    MAGGIES intentions, as usual, om ion t gater tom and Lucy  so simple as t of going o tom s o Maggie: sen told s o irely in ances, o live in a little broent on t on account of ioned  to tom, and suggested t ain oget tom rejected tempt, observing t gypsies  anyto eat and o drive but a donkey. today,  c s of tree  t crisis in raigill so Dunloom, and t of ions  of  so ting ermining t sly send ter by a small gypsy elling   s out of breat by time tom got to t tance of to topped to pant a little, reflecting t running a a pleasant til one  quite to t ion  abated: sly passed te into t kno t te Mill to Garum Firs, and s all t, because taken. But s  trembling, t t of  t of meeting strangers - soo mucer rangers o ion as a runaopped, and in a one asked o give a poor man. Maggie  -  -  and gave te smile, o, sically. `ttle miss, said tful and grateful tone ticipated, and s

    tanding still, probably to look after ly  occurred to  t t: - tom  , and it oo painful an idea to be readily forgotten. Besides s. It  s likely to make a favourable impression on passengers, and s surn into t not on t till be uncle Pullets fields. Surned t gate t  locked, and felt a deliger  ing encounter. So  timid times so climb over es, but t ing out of reac, and s of Dunlo least of some ot you couldnt go very far  coming to a common. Sting ratired and il se prospect of bread-and-butter. It ill broad daylig Pullet, retaining ts of took tea at  four by t five by tc ed, to remind  t ill, it seemed to  s distance indeed, and it  t come . o s deal of pasture-land, and s a distance: t unate in some respects, as labourers migoo ignorant to understand ty of ing to go to Dunlo it er if s some one ing to kno e business. At last, o an end and Maggie found e into a lane . S  gave  t be far off; per  pitiable encumbrance on Dunloe and , t  ing images of Apollyon, and a ol, and a blinking do ear, and ottle Maggie  once timidity of an active imagination, and t comes from overmastering impulse. So ture of seeking range lane s s

    a leaping of t t s sigicking up, feet uppermost, by ternatural - a diabolical kind of fungus; for soo mucated at t glance to see ttaco t rotted along faster and more lig s did not occur to  y   t bend in tually satle semicircular black tent   all female figure by tless tea and ot oniso  s feel more delig it artling to find ter all, and not on a common: indeed, it ing; for a mysterious illimitable common o  of everybodys reac of Maggies picture of gypsy life. S on,   t gypsies most likely kne idiots, so to take of setting  t glance as an idiot. It racted attention, for tall figure, o meet remblingly as it approac t  Pullet and t  so see in t her hair off.

    `My little lady, one of coaxing deference.

    It ed: t once t stle lady, and o treat her accordingly.

    `Not any fart so stay h you, please.

    `ts pritty; come t a nice little lady you are, to be sure, said taking   y.

    te a group round t. An old gypsy-ed on to ttle t sent forteam: tall girl  stolen ing sunligty and comfortable, Maggie t, only s out tea-cups. Everyte caugo use a erest in books. It tle confusing, t to speak to t understand, ared at  offering any salutation. At last, the old woman said,

    `, my pretty lady, are you come to stay  ye doell us where you come from.

    It  like a story: Maggie liked to be called pretty lady and treated in t down and said,

    `Im come from o be a gypsy. Ill live eac many things.

    `Suctle lady, said tting doo cray bonnet and frock, saking off Maggies bonnet and looking at it o tall girl snatc and put it on   Maggie ermined not to s, as if sible about .

    `I dont  to , s e long till yesterday,  off: but I dare say it  probable trong prejudice in favour of long ten even  t moment in to conciliate gypsy opinion.

    `O tle lady - and ric you live in a beautiful  home?

    `Yes, my ty, and Im very fond of t Im often very uno bring my books  I came aell you almost everytimes - and t ell you somet Geograpoo - ts about teresting. Did you ever  Columbus?

    Maggies eyes o sparkle and o fluso instruct t influence over t  amazement at talk, ttention ents of Maggies pocket, ied,  attracting ice.

    `Is t  tion of Columbus.

    `O no! said Maggie, y, `Columbus ed s in my Catec Pers ratoo long to tell before tea... .I  my tea so.

    t  from Maggie, in spite of ronising instruction to simple peevishness.

    `tle lady, said tual. Youve been walking a good way, Ill be bound, my dear. heres your home?

    `Its Dorlcote Mill, a good ulliver, but nt let che gypsies live?

    `! do you  to go to tle lady? said tall girl, meanly staring at Maggie and grinning. ainly not agreeable.

    `No, said Maggie, `Im only t if s a very good queen you migo everybody.

    ` o nice victual, to Maggie a lump of dry bread, waken from a bag of scraps, and a piece of cold bacon.

    `t t taking it, `but ter and tea instead? I dont like bacon.

    `eve got no tea nor butter, said tting tired of coaxing.

    `O, a little bread and treacle would do, said Maggie.

    `e  got no treacle, said tongue, and one of tc to eat it. At t tall girl . to forget Maggies o t  under tent, and reac some platters and spoons. Maggie trembled a little, and ears o all girl gave a sly came running up t tom. arted at Maggie, and ttering. S very lonely, and e sure so cry before long: t seem to mind  all, and s quite  tears . to a tremor t only found a ne stick he held in his hand.

    Maggie felt t it o them amusing and useful knowledge.

    Boto be inquiring about Maggie, for t one of tion became of t pacific kind isfying it on t last tial coaxing tone,

    `ttle ladys come to live  you glad?

    `Ay, very glad, said t Maggies silver tters t aken from . urned t to tion, and sely restored to Maggies pocket, o attack tents of ttle - a ste and potatoes - urned out into a yelloter.

    Maggie began to t tom mig about t certainly be t to return   at all attaco  t sed  in ttention towards  Robin ened.

    `eve got noto eat, said tone. `And s little lady.

    `ry if you can eat a bit o te liking t refuse teite. If  come by in take killer or Mr Great or St George   Maggie t  t t Oggs - nothere.

    Maggie tulliver you perceive  rained,  a small female of eigo sc St Oggs, and  simes read tionary; so t in travelling over  unexpected ignorance as ed knoed  `poly meant `many; but s gypsies  s generally  mixture of cleareyed acumen and blind dreams.

    gypsies ion in t five minutes. From ful companions, amenable to instruction, so t t pero kill   up  t t drop t transparent disguise at any moment, and turn eito ter  rying to eat te t dreaded o offend traying remely unfavourable opinion of terest t no t s.

    `, you dont like t, my dear, said t Maggie did not even take a spoonful of tery a bit, come.

    `No, te effort, and trying to smile in a friendly ime, I t seems getting darker. I t go  arts and things.

    Maggie rose from  as s t, devoutly  Apollyon  op a bit stop a bit, little lady - ake you home, all safe, when weve done supper: you shall ride home, like a lady.

    Maggie sat dotle faitly saall girl putting a bridle on throwing a couple of bags on his back.

    `Notle missis, said tell us he place?

    `Dorlcote Mill is my ulliver - here.

    `, a big mill a little  Oggs?

    `Yes, said Maggie. `Is it far off? I to here, if you please.

    `No, no, itll be getting dark,  make e. And the donkeyll carry you as nice as can be - youll see.

    ed Maggie as   relieved t it  to be going  srembling  she was really going home.

    `ty bonnet, said tting t recently despised but noicle of costume on Maggies o you,  you, and tle lady we said you was.

    `O, Yes, to you. But I ter t y.

    `A O me, arent you? said t I cant go - Youll go too fast for me.

    It no to be seated on trating against t as tmare o ted  a strong  from tick, set off at a rapid o Maggie all girl and ticks, obligingly escorted t hwacking.

    Not Leonore in t preternatural midnigom lover, errified tirely natural ride on a s-paced donkey,   of tting sun seemed to entous meaning, s foot, must surely ion. tctages - to add to its dreariness: to speak of, and t  ted by c o find t t stop there.

    At last - O sig in to an end,  t finger-post before - `to St Oggs, 2 miles. t to take er all, and mig at t t s like coming ronger as s more and more certain t se ion  only gratify  efface t sige-faced horse.

    `O stop, stop! s. `ther!

    t painful, and before  ullivers  been home.

    `s to irrup.

    `ttle miss lost o our tent, at ts a good o come arter being on tramp all day.

    `O, yes, fato bring me home, said Maggie. `A very kind, good man!

    `ulliver, taking out five ss t days  afford to lose ttle wenc her up before me.

    ` o be rambling about and lose yourself?

    `O fatom  bear it.

    `Pooulliver, sootnt t ud fat tle wench?

    `O no - I never her - never.

    Mr tulliver spoke rongly   t Maggie never aunt from tom about to tricken by treatment, and sometimes t t  oo o be alluded to.

 CHAPTER 12

    Mr and Mrs Glegg at home

    IN order to see Mr and Mrs Glegg at  enter to Oggs - t venerable toed roofs and ts, t fleeces, ed  classic pastorals. It is one of toion and outgroe ants: a tos long groree, and  betime  from t tness of t is a toten years. till fully, revieime, and is met by tabbed in t of umn evenings like a  from umulus on t of t  o build t fine old oelling of ts and ions; but it is all so old t  its inconsistencies, and are ent t t tone oriel and t to small brick-refoil ornament, and ttlements defined one, did not sacrilegiously pull do imbered body s oak-roofed banqueting-hall.

    But older even t of  into to be a remnant of ted to St Ogg, tron saint of t to versions. I incline to t, since if it s be  is at least likely to contain t falsee man  came to pass one evening  moaning by to be ro questioned  to cross tarry till take ser : so s t foolisill s on to mourn and crave. But Ogg t is enoug t needs it. And  came to pass o robes of floy and t so t s on ter like ts brig blessed, in t t not question and s need but  smitten y and didst straigeps into t sorm, and s forto t ss. And . But self from its moorings and ed ide in great sness to t it nessed in ter-time, t at t upon ters, and t in t around as of ts brig took  and pulled anew.

    ts from a far-off time tation of t oucal to ttle, and s as sudden deat toroubles even troubles of t inual fig puritans ts and ts tans. Many  citizens lost all times and  fortive toless tanding noizens turned t gabled ed by surprising passages, urn at sill t on a muddy strand overfloinually by tide. Everye-glass in succo facing, or ottempt to make fine old red St Oggs o sprang up yesterday. tending, for ters  days,  to be radesmen ended for customers ed from us by c  from t of by farmers in drab greatcoats  in the

    full market-place, it ate of t belonged to a past golden age er - making grist for t vertical millstones s, and terious fluctuations of trade o fear: even t been great of late years. t Oggs did not look extensively before or after. It ined a long past  t, and s t reets. Since turies  and t ter, so many memories  beops! And t time o-morroerday and t forces t used to so sleep. tly  and property, and burn men alive; not because any sane and  paris Oggs could be brougo believe in titude tle-market, but for a long ed of preac t of fervour in dissenting pulpits on t of infant baptism om of a zeal unsuited to sober times antism sat at ease, unmindful of scism: dissent ion, and Cemptuously at Dissent as a foolis t clung greatly to families in t incompatible  ion  roversy to break tor orical and argumentative, and Mr Spray t minister o preacical sermons in y bet of to t belief in ternal perdition. But most of Mr Sprays leties, and many old-fasers er let politics alone. Public spirit  eem at St Oggs, and men ions ers: ttle or no business of to manage, or, if to become insolvent.

    t of t St Oggs in Mrs Gleggs day and at t particular period in ory  ime  present, and y,  being obliged to dress itself in an elaborate costume of knoime  of asking tients if t simply took it for granted t time on bone to secure t cramp. Mrs Glegg carried suced from  and up empty, like a suit of armour, and a silver-ick; for table for many generations.

    Mrs Glegg  and a back parlour in   St Oggs, so t ss of vierengt on Road leading out of St Oggs and note tendency to `gadding about in t retired from business, togetice of ton stockings, ion; and from  garden and orcretco time among `tables. For Mr Glegg ired from active business as a apler for t of  occupation so muc o amateur ion, and ually relaxed by doing t pero  t e respect for a  it is  to tion of to ties of a ituted cional or commendable kind.

    Mr Glegg on oo, al occupation, ural ory, finding t ained erpillars, slugs and insects, ed ion, and iced remarkable coincidences bet events of t time, as, for example, t before ter terious serpentine marks on trees togeto knoil it flasion. (Mr Glegg  of mental activity self a pations.) And  of meditation rairiness of typically exed in Mrs Glegg. t a creature made - in a genealogical sense - out of a mans rib, and in ticular case maintained in t respectability  any trouble of ate of contradiction to t propositions and even to t accommodating concessions, ery in to , and being ting, money-keeping turn, ed on muc in t curious compound ter, it may easily  t in spite of excellent ingredients; and a fine systematic stinginess may be accompanied  quite spoils its relisingy in t amiable manner:  tion is a lovable skinflint. If you expressed a preference for co save tured deligifying your palate, and o pet all animals rue feeling over ture,  a donation of five pounds to a person `in a small self to ribution of small aids, not a neutralising of misfortune. And Mr Glegg  as fond of saving oto avoid a turnpike  of , and was

    quite zealous in trying to induce indifferent acquaintances to adopt a citute for blacking. t of saving, as an end in itself, belonged to trious men of business of a former generation,  as tracking of to t constituted t in tting, tle miserliness as a condition, and you y in every provincial district combined ers as various as ts from  acid. true ional cers: not so taxpayers ained even in t of table retirement,  and  of regarding life as an ingenious process of nibbling out ones liveli leaving any perceptible deficit, and ed to give up a neaxed luxury icable by cter able to understand ion t e of too pungent seasoning t nature o t Miss Dodsons virtues. A man ionate disposition, al idea of life, easily comes to persuade  no oted tle daily snapping and quarrelling  any sense of alienation. Mr Glegg, being of a reflective turn, and no longer occupied ation on titution of to ic life: and yet  Mrs Gleggs  struck iable irregularity in ot roll up table-napkins igry ence, and tion of grocery and drug-like odours in Mrs Gleggs private cupboard impressed  t sure t   ire  is certain t an acquiescent mild ions comparatively jejune and barren of mystery.

    Mr Gleggs unmistakable kind-edness  pained o see  variance  - to be in a state of cavil  quite nullified tate of  t morning. Still  in to breakfast   no,  be subdued enougo give o rong sense of family decorum. So boast t t no Dodson  off  money out at use, or some  t.

    t at t-table: it ers in t o put on anyto try as a fuzzy curled front. By  ten decorum demanded t: until t and society  t cloud only left it more apparent t ty remained; and Mr Glegg, perceiving t doo  o stem ly resolved to leave t remark to Mrs Glegg, lest, to so delicate an article as a ladys temper, test touco enjoy temper  in fine condition by inflicting privations on t ter. It y s meet o exercise itself. But by and by it appeared t rop last in t tone peculiar to the wife of ones bosom.

    `ell, Mr Glegg! its a poor return I get for making you to be treated, Id better  before my poor fated a he choice was offered me.

    Mr Glegg paused from   but simply  quiet, ual ant mysteries.

    ` have I done now?

    `Done now, Mr Glegg? done now?... Im sorry for you.

    Not seeing inent ansed to his porridge.

    `tinued Mrs Glegg after a pause, `as ud o do somet to siding  teacter - but Ive allays s to stand by tead o rejoicing and triump her.

    `No? said Mr Glegg, rat as meek as Moses. `riumph over you?

    `t plain, Mr Glegg. Id sooner youd tell me to my face as you make ligry to make out as everybodys in t but me, and come to your breakfast in t an , and sulk at me as if I  under your feet.

    `Sulk at you? said Mr Glegg, in a tone of angry facetiousness. `Youre like a tipsy man as too muc himself.

    `Dont loo me, Mr Glegg! It makes you look very small, t see yourself, said Mrs Glegg in a tone of energetic compassion. `A man in your place s an example, and talk more sensible.

    `Yes; but en to sense? retorted Mr Glegg, s sense I can talk to you is  nigo ts safe enoug it alone, all because of a bit of a tiff, and I  if youd like to call it in, dont do it in a y in t  till tty mortgage to be  any trouble. Youd o set to o find an investment, and make no end o expense.

    Mrs Glegg felt t sossed ted a guttural interjection to indicate t ice, not a peace. And, in fact, ilities soon broke out again.

    `Ill tea no s proceed to give it ed teapot  toss of the head, and said,

    `Im glad to s little t for  to stand up  if I  but ed myself civil to your kin, and t one of em can say trary, t, and nobody s.

    `Youd better leave finding fault ill youve left off quarrelling rouble you for the milk-jug.

    `ts as false a  to say, if ed milk,  s false. Im not to quarrel .

    ` did you call it yesterday, ters antrum?

    `Id no quarrel er, Mr Glegg, and its false to say it. Mr tullivers none o my blood, and it  peray and be s, Mr Glegg; per to  upo your o let me tell you, its your disgrace.

    `Did ever anybody ting . `A o keep  tled on uffed and lined at no end o expense, and provided for o go on i ting and snapping like a mad dog! Its beyond everyty s tered in a tone of sorroation: Mr Glegg pusea from apped table h his hands.)

    `ell, Mr Glegg! if ts best taking off  in an excited manner. `But if you talk o my being provided for beyond , I beg leave to tell you as Id a rigo except a many t find. And as to my being like a mad dog, its  cried sy for your treatment of me, for its  bear, and I  bear...

    imated t so cry, and breaking off from speecly.

    `Sally, s a fire upstairs, and put to order w youd like for dinner. I shall have gruel.

    Mrs Glegg o took doers `Saints Everlasting Rest omed to lay open before  Sunday mornings - or ave han usual.

    But Mrs Glegg carried sometairs ogets Rest and t possible for o endure existence on tly before tea-time. tly Mr Gleggs suggestion t so let ill until a good investment turned up, and, furtic  at amp, remely reticent about s, , like ot c of ening   s and  if estamentary tenderness, it ing to t tuff, and ence on t of snails, ouc  an end. to survive Mr Glegg and talk eulogistically of   anding ions - to erest coming in more frequently and secrete it in various corners baffling to t ingenious of to Mrs Gleggs mind, banks and strong boxes o by o be erite and present dignity comprised in being a `, - all ttering and conciliatory vieure. So t o good- of y cting rolled up in t upstairs to  tolling for poor Mr Morton, Mrs Glegg anse as if so take to.

    Baxter  least eigime, for it o quarrel often, it follo t be protracted beyond certain limits.

    Mr and Mrs Glegg talked quite amicably about tullivers t evening: Mr Glegg  tting t tulliver ting into  er, and y; and Mrs Glegg, meeting t  it o take notice of suc, and t for ers sake, s  it out on a mortgage s four per cent.

 CHAPTER 13

    Mr tulliver Furtangles the Skein of Life

    OING to tment of Mrs Gleggs ts, Mrs Pullet found ask of mediation t day surprisingly easy. Mrs Glegg, indeed, c o tell er  mode of beters. Mrs Pullets argument t it  in to say t ticularly offensive. If t t mig confidence. `Its not to be expected, I suppose, observed Mrs Glegg, by , `as I so to see me, or as I so Mr tulliver and ask  I sulliver speaks civil to me, Ill speak civil to o tell me ws becoming.

    Finding it unnecessary to plead for tullivers, it ural t aunt Pullet stle in y for to terday from t apparently ill-fated antial narrative, to  pitied poor Bessys bad luck  of paying for Maggies being sent to a distant boarding sc prevent  migend to subdue some ot Glegg blamed Bessy for o all nesses  ill, t s , observing t it o rue.

    `tell Bessy youll bear no malice, and everyt  said, just before parting.

    `Yes, you may, Sopell Mr tulliver and Bessy too, as Iam not going to beo me: I knos my place, as t, to set an example in every respect, and I do it. Nobody can say different of me, if to truth.

    Mrs Glegg being in tate of satisfaction in y magnanimity, I leave you to judge  ter from Mr tulliver t very evening after Mrs Pullets departure, - informing  s trouble   so  mont fart, togeterest due til time of payment. And furt Mr tulliver o beo Mrs Glegg, and so o come, but her for himself or his children.

    It ulliver astropirely t irrepressible o expect t similar causes may at any time produce different results. It en occurred in  Mr tulliver  able to do it, or ied y, or in any otill, s today if sold o tea t sister Pullet o try and make everyter Glegg. So t  t paying in t o tulliver o raise t noermined to e a letter to Mrs Glegg y of mistake. Mrs Pullet gone to beg and pray for ulliver did not e a letter, and found tion betten language, briefly kno puzzling ting, task ime to a generation ter of private judgment.

    Mrs Glegg did not alter ter, and cut off tulliver c be able to say of  s divided  fairness among ter of ills personal qualities e to t fundamental fact of blood; and to be determined in tribution of your property by caprice and not make your legacies bear a direct ratio to degrees of kinsive disgrace t ered   sense of itude ion in sucradition y.

    But tter could not s made t to mend and as to t it produced on Mrs Gleggs opinion of Mr tulliver - so be understood from t time fort sever to say about ate of mind, apparently, oo corrupt for o contemplate it for a moment. It  until tom  to sc t, t Mrs Glegg paid a visit to er tulliver, sitting in aining from all advice and criticism, for, as so er Deane, `Bessy must bear t Bessy iable.

    t evening tom observed to Maggie, `O my! Maggie, aunt Gleggs beginning to come again; Im glad Im going to scc all now!

    Maggie  t of toms going aation of o sleep t night.

    Mr tullivers prompt procedure entailed on itude in finding t person  be no client of akems, o  at tnig turned out to trary; not because Mr tullivers  because external fact ronger. akems client  person to be found. Mr tulliver iny as  plead, like Oedipus, t ed on ted by him.

 BOOK 2 CHAPTER 1

    toms `First half

    tOM tULLIVERS sufferings during t quarter  Kings Lorton under tinguiser Stelling  Mr Jacobs Academy, life  presented itself to  problem: ty of felloo play om being good at all active games, fig precedence among to y of tom tulliver; Mr Jacobs  of acles, imposed no painful a y of snuffy old es like o e like copperplate and surround tures o spell  foret, and to spout `My name is Norval  bungling, tom for   in danger of ts.  going to be a snuffy scer -  a substantial man, like o go ing ty a bit of om  s o go ing too, and to be generally respected.  ting and spelling:  as   for o reconcile o t ime o be prolonged, and t  to be brougo  extremely pleasant, for it  riding about, giving orders, and going to market; and  t a clergyman ure lessons, and probably make le on a Sunday as . But in tion, it  scer irely different from t to be at a deficiency, in case of aken care to carry  t ticular to be done  to impress strange boys y om, t  illusions of o be cruelly dissipated by  Kings Lorton.  been tnig  to  life, complicated not only in grammar but andard of Englision,  business, made all t of basom, as you ion among boys for ease of address; but ty of enunciating a monosyllable in reply to Mr or Mrs Stelling , t o be asked at table  resolved, in tterness of  t o a neig only  o ain scepticism about guns, and a general sense t elling t notly; and yet it om to despise Mr Stelling as   t Mr Stelling, it lay quite beyond toms poo detect it: it is only by a s t t full-groinguishunder.

    Mr Stelling  yet ty, anding erect, and large lig self-confidence inclining to brazenness. ered on  vigour, and intended to make a considerable impression on er Stelling  a man isermination to puser, in t place: for tal masterso be elling meant to  as a preac alo preacriking manner, so as to ion s sensation y for a brots. tyle of preacemporaneous, on. Some passages of Massillon and Bourdaloue, ive ellings deepest tones, but as comparatively feeble appeals of en t quite as striking by ellings doctrine icular sc inge of evangelicalism, for t elling t to elling o rise in o rise by merit, clearly, since erest beyond ionso a great la become Lord Centions naturally gets a little into debt at starting: it is not to be expected t yle of a man e all impson advanced toune did not suffice for ture togetock of  of a superior flo follo rigorous manner, eit t be procured by some ot telling must go  t alternative ination of ts of success, elling e t  equal to anyted by s a Greek play, and invent several ne selected ttle more tentions to Mrs Stelling; but old t fine o do some day, and s great confidence in ood everyt sort.

    But te step to future success o bring on tom tulliver during t iation concerning anot migellings favour, if it ood t young tulliver,  time. It  om about in grammar  tion of some sternness. Not t Mr Stelling e trary: om at table, and corrected ment in t playful manner: but poor tom y, for o jokes at all like Mr Stellings, and for t time in  elling said, as t beef ulliver! in for it? - tom, to s a pun o a state of embarrassed alarm t made everyto  t  o do in: of course  beef, - ical joking es, from  erious , made ions and survive ts,  sooner aken tter of course. But tion, eit may procure for ary pupil to a clergyman: one is, t of tlemans undivided neglect; tlemans undivided attention. It ter privilege for iatory mont Kings Lorton.

    t respectable miller and maltster  tom beate of great mental satisfaction.  it  a tutor for tom. Mr Stellings eyes er-of-fact  sloullivers o be sure, to be sure, `You  your son to be a man ulliver  Counsellor ylde,  sessions, Mr tulliver t telling  fello unlike ylde, in fact - icking coat. Mr tulliver  by any means an exception in mistaking brazenness for s laymen t Stelling s ulliver several stories about `Songue, t t, ed for tom.  t-rate man ed ion, and knely om must learn in order to become a matculliver  knoion on t is o laug ructed persons te as  at all wiser.

    As for Mrs tulliver, finding t Mrs Stellings vieo t recurrence of irely coincided  Mrs Stelling, ticipating , o tal cer of t contentment to  leaving tom e of e sensible and mottily as could be.

    `t be very ulliver, `for everyt ered silk s a pretty penny. Sister Pullet  one like it.

    `Aulliver, ` some income besides tom ull be anoto  mucrouble eit: eacural to s ulliver, turning ative tickling on the flank.

    Per eacurally to Mr Stelling t  about it  uniformity of metances ood to be under te teacure. Mr Broderips amiable beaver, as t curalist tells us, busied ly in constructing a dam, in a room up tairs in London, as if ion in a stream or lake in Upper Canada. It ion to build: ter or of possible progeny  for able. itinct Mr Stelling set to  ural metilling ton Grammar and Euclid into tom tulliver. truction: all otion ter tterers. Fixed on t observe ted people ying smile: all t sort of t it ion Mr Stelling  biassed, as some tutors ent of o  Euclid, no opinion could iality. Mr Stelling ray by entellectual: on t belief t everyt religion  totle a great auty, and deaneries and prebends useful institutions, and Great Britain tial bulestantism, and fait support to afflicted minds: el keeper believes in ty of t gives to artistic visitors. And in telling believed in ion:  t  tullivers boy. Of course,  manner, Mr Stelling   rest by an assurance t ood ed; for  possible t about tter? Mr Stellings duty o teac ed ime in t of anything abnormal.

    doom as a tupid lad; for t particular declensions into ract as tion beterminations could by no means get suc to enable o recognise a cive or dative. truck Mr Stelling as sometural stupidity: ed obstinacy, or at any rate, indifference, and lectured tom severely on  of tion. `You feel no interest in elling rue. tom y in discerning a pointer from a setter, inction, and ive po at all deficient. I fancy te as strong as telling; for tom could predict  number of ering beone rigo tre of a given ripple, o a fraction ick it ake to reac perfect squares on e  any measurement. But Mr Stelling took no note of t toms faculties failed ractions o on Grammar, and t ate bordering on idiocy o tration t triangles must be equal - t promptitude and certainty t t telling concluded t toms brain being peculiarly impervious to etymology and demonstrations,  implements: it ap try constituted t culture of t for tion of any subsequent crop. I say not Mr Stellings to o me as good as any ot turned out as uncomfortably for tom tulliver as if o remedy a gastric . It is astonis a different result one gets by capellectual stomacion of try as plougo settle not t is open to some one else to follo auties and call t of e irrelevant. It less an ingenious idea to call t, but it  useful beast. O Aristotle! if you age of being `t modern instead of test ancient,  apelligence, ation t intelligence so rarely sself in speec metap  by saying it is something else?

    tom tulliver being abundant in no form of speec use any metapo declare o ture of Latin:  an instrument of torture; and it  until  on some  us, t o call it a `bore and `beastly stuff. At present, in relation to t in declensions and conjugations, tom ate of as blank unimaginativeness concerning tendency of  s trunk of an asree in order to cure lameness in cattle. It is doubtless almost incredible to instructed minds of t day t a boy of t belonging strictly to `tood to al darkness, sinct idea o be sucin on t so it om. It o  ted a people ed till longer to make and , ion irely latent. So far as tom ance  Mr Jacobs Academy, rictly correct, but it  no fart t testament. And Mr Stelling  to enfeeble and emasculate o reduce tonic effect of etymology by mixing it tering, extraneous information suco girls.

    Yet, strange to say, under treatment tom became more like a girl to found itself very comfortable in tioned rig no  bruises and crusom oo clear-sig to be a Mr Stellings standard of te different, ainly somet of t, and t brougact , om tulliver, appeared uncoutupid:  to t into an uneasy condition ion, and gave ibility.  to say obstinate, disposition, but te-like rebellion and recklessness in ure: ties predominated, and if it o  o s ellings approbation, by standing on one leg for an inconvenient lengtime or rapping ely against tary action of t sort, ainly ried it. But no - tom  ten tanding, or strengt given to . It did occur to   some , but as t, y and irregularity of introducing an extempore passage on a topic of petition for . But one day ion, and Mr Stelling, convinced t t be carelessness, since it transcended tupidity, ured ing out t if o seize t golden opportunity of learning supines, o regret it ermined to try  evening, after s and `little sister (o pray for Maggie o keep Gods commandments, o make me alin. tle to consider  Euclid - o see  meant, or ate  at last elling say I s do Euclid any more. Amen.

    t t  t mistake t day, encouraged o persevere in to ralised any scepticism t migellings continued demand for Euclid. But  absence of all  into t seemed clear t toms despair under t tense did not constitute a nodus erference, and since ties,  in tudy, preparing  to get dim over ted crying and  ion of superiority. And to obey t sign ure,  knife and . tom, as I said,  t epoc al development, o feel elling considered som a service by setting o ctle c e a pretty employment for tom to take little Laura out in t umn day - it on Parsonage le c being an accomplis present, ened round , by le dog, during tes in  as t part carrying t of Mrs Stellings o orders. If any one considers toom, I beg o consider t tues  incompatible. e contrives under all ages to dress extremely o yle of coiffure  at elegance and completeness of appointment to  o expect of  s as a nurse elling kneter:   ainly not t tullivers gait, to carry a  y of exercise in long  elling  er. Among telling intended to be more fortunate tirely given up t of  ttle soul as ever breato Mr Riley, ellings blond ringlets and smiling demeanour t rengt kno ic differences mig be entirely Mr Stellings fault.

    If tom ion, ainly ed ttle c oo kind-ed a lad for t - too muc turns to true manliness, and to protecting pity for ted Mrs Stelling, and contracted a lasting dislike to pale blond ringlets and broad plaits as directly associated iness of manner and a frequent reference to oty. But  tle Laura, and liking to amuse er purpose - t elling for teaco play  of playfelloo doat on ing acts of forgetfulness; t ed it as a great favour on  to let Maggie trot by his side on his pleasure excursions.

    And before tually came. Mrs Stelling ation for ttle girl to come and stay ulliver drove over to Kings Lorton late in October, Maggie came too,  saking a great journey and beginning to see t ullivers first visit to see tom, for t learn not to too muc home.

    `ell, my lad, o tom, o announce to o kiss tom freely, `you look rarely! Sch you.--

    tom wisher ill.

    `I dont tom. `I  to let me do Euclid - it brings on toothink.

    (tooto wom .)

    `Euclid, my lad - ? said Mr tulliver.

    `O I dont knos definitions and axioms and triangles and ts a book Ive got to learn in - t.

    `Go, go! said Mr tulliver, reprovingly, `you mustnt say so. You must learn er tells you.  its rigo learn.

    `Ill om, said Maggie, tle air of patronising consolation. `Im come to stay ever so long, if Mrs Stelling asks me. Ive broug I, father?

    `You tle tom, in sucs at t, t e enjoyed to see you doing one of my lessons! in too! Girls never learn sucoo silly.

    `I knoin is very ly. `Latins a language. tin ionary. t.

    `No om, secretly astonis quot;bonusquot; means quot;good,quot; as it happens - bonus, bona, bonum.

    `ell, ts no reason ;gift,quot;  said Maggie, stoutly. `It may mean several t every  means t, as uff pocket-handkerchiefs are made of.

    `ell done, little un, said Mr tulliver, laugom felt rated  t t so stay  ual inspection of his books.

    Mrs Stelling, in ation, did not mention a longer time tay, but Mr Stelling,  s stay a fortnig Mr Stelling e proud to leave tle y of so appreciating strangers. So it  s be fetcill tnight.

    `Noo tudy, Maggie, said tom, as t do you soss your inued; for tion and ion to be tossing it out of  makes you look as if you were crazy.

    `O, I cant , said Maggie impatiently. `Dont tease me, tom. O w books! sudy. `o !

    ` read one of em, said tom, triumply. `tin.

    `No, t, said Maggie. `I can read tory of the Roman Empire.

    `ell,  mean? You dont knoom, wagging his head.

    `But I could soon find out, said Maggie, scornfully.

    `hy, how?

    `I s it .

    `Youd better not, Miss Maggie, said tom, seeing elling lets nobody touc leave, and I sc, if you take it out.

    `O very  me see all your books, turning to toms neck, and rub h her small round nose.

    tom, in t at o dispute  and began to jump able. Aill Maggies  like an animated mop. But tions round table became more and more irregular in till at last reacellings reading-stand, t it ts o t udy oried o t tom stood dizzy and ag for a fees, dreading telling.

    `O, I say, Maggie, said tom at last, lifting up tand, ` keep quiet elling ll make us cry peccavi.

    `s t? said Maggie.

    `O its tin for a good scolding, said tom, not  some pride in his knowledge.

    `Is she a cross woman? said Maggie.

    `I believe you! said tom, ic nod.

    `I t Gleggs a great deal crosser ther does.

    `ell, youll be a om, `so you neednt talk.

    `But I soss.

    `O, I dare say, and a nasty conceited te you.

    `But you oug to e me, tom: itll be very wicked of you, for I ser.

    `Yes, but if youre a nasty disagreeable te you.

    `O but, tom, you ! I s be disagreeable. I so you - and I so everybody. You  e me really, om?

    `O bots time for me to learn my lessons. See  Ive got to do, said tom, drao presently becoming quite beion. It was unavoidable - s confess ence and s fond of ion.

    `Its nonsense! suff - nobody need  to make it out.

    `Aom, dra  so clever as you t you were.

    `O, said Maggie, pouting, `I dare say I could make it out, if Id learned w goes before, as you have.

    `But ts  couldnt, Miss isdom, said tom. `For its all t goes before: for t to say ion 3 is and  get along  go on in Grammar. See .

    Maggie found tin Grammar quite sooter ical mortification; for sed in ne t t Latin at sligly made up o skip tax, - terious sentences snatcext, - like strange s leaves of unknos, brougo ion, and ing because tongue of to interpret. It eresting - tin Grammar t tom  interesting. t fragmentary examples  communis in; but tunate gentleman ed because ion afforded  deal of pleasant conjecture, and se lost in trable by no star, ,

    `Nohe Grammar!

    `O tom, its sucty book! s of to give it s muctier tionary. I could learn Latin very soon. I dont ts at all hard.

    `O I knoom, `youve been reading t t.

    tom seized t ermined and business-like air as muco say t o learn urned to to amuse  titles.

    Presently tom called to and at t end of table, s when he hears me.

    Maggie obeyed and took the open book.

    `om?

    `O, I begin at `Appellativa arborum, because I say all over again his week.

    tom sailed along pretty o forget er, in speculating as to  at Sunt etiam volucrum.

    `Dont tell me, Maggie; Sunt etiam volucrum... Sunt etiam volucrum... ut ostrea, cetus...

    `No, said Maggie, opening h and shaking her head.

    `Sunt etiam volucrum, said tom, very slo o come sooner,  ted for.

    `C, e, u, said Maggie, getting impatient.

    `O, I knoom. `Ceu passer, om took s  on his book-cover... `ferarum...

    `O dear, O dear tom, said Maggie, `ime you are! Ut...

    `Ut, ostrea...

    `No, no, said Maggie, `ut, tigris...

    `O yes, noom, `it igris, vulpes, Id forgotten: ut tigris, vulpes, et piscium.

    itammering and repetition, tom got t few lines.

    `No is  learnt for to-morrow. Give me e.

    After some ing of  on table, tom returned the book.

    `Mascula nomina in a, he began.

    `No, tom, said Maggie, `t doesnt come next. Its Nomen non creskens genittivo...

    `Creskens genittivo, exclaimed tom, om ted passage for erdays lesson, and a young gentleman does not require an intimate or extensive acquaintance in before iable absurdity of a false quantity. `Creskens genittivo!  a little silly you are, Maggie!

    `ell, you neednt laugom, for you didnt remember it at all. Im sure its spelt so. o know?

    `Pold you girls couldnt learn Latin. Its Nomen non crescens genitivo.

    `Very ing. `I can say t as  mind your stops. For you ougo stop t a semicolon as you do at a comma, and you make t stops o be no stop at all.

    `O  cter. Let me go on.

    tly fetco spend t of ted elling, om  y. But sellings alluding to a little girl of he gypsies.

    ` a very odd little girl t must be! said Mrs Stelling, meaning to be playful, but a playfulness t turned on y  at all to Maggies taste. Selling, after all, did not t to bed in rats. Mrs Stelling, s, looked at   raight behind.

    Nevert  to tom. So be in tudy o tin Grammar. tronomer  selling if all astronomers ed icular astronomer. But, forestalling his answer, she said,

    `I suppose its all astronomers: because you knoo talk and  tars.

    Mr Stelling liked tle immensely, and t terms. Sold tom so go to sco Mr Stelling, as  to it again, and s A B C meant: the lines.

    `Im sure you couldnt do it, noom. `And Ill just ask Mr Stelling if you could.

    `I dont mind, said ttle conceited minx. `Ill ask him myself.

    `Mr Stelling, s same evening, oms lessons, if you o teacead of him?

    `No; you couldnt, said tom, indignantly. `Girls cant do Euclid: can they, sir?

    `ttle of everytelling. `t deal of superficial cleverness: but t go far into anytheyre quick and shallow.

    tom, delig, telegrapriump Maggie beellings cified: so be called `quick all tle life, and no appeared t ty. It er to be sloom.

    `om,  suco be quick. Youll never go far into anything, you know.

    And Maggie iny t s for a retort.

    But e lonely for tom, er and  tter since selling so many questions about tin, `I  buy it for a fartten nut, or o Latin - t tom ually come to a dim understanding of t t tunate as to knoin  learning it ton Grammar. t addition to orical acquirements during to an epitomised ory of the Jews.

    But to an end. om o see t yellotering before ternoons and t December snoo  suns  make  t of t y-one sticks deep in a corner of t o a distance,  to limbo, if it ure of sticks to travel so far.

    But it  tin Grammar - t lig o t familiar tern of te and t ideas t it o criticise ty and extension of matter. t in ts became dear to us before ension of our oy: ed and loved it as ed our oence and our o furniture of our early  look if it  up to auction: an improved taste in upery scorns it; and is not triving after sometter and better in our surroundings, teristic t distinguise - or, to satisfy a scrupulous accuracy of definition, t distinguisise? But  striving migions  a trick of tities of our life s in memory. Ones delig t cistus or fucself on test undulating turf, is an entirely unjustifiable preference to a landscape-gardener, or to any of ted minds  does not rest on a demonstrable superiority of qualities. And tter reason for preferring t it stirs an early memory - t it is no novelty in my life speaking to me merely t sensibilities to form and colour, but tence t self into my joys when joys were vivid.

 CHAPTER 2

    tmas holidays

    FINE old Cmas y t year in t fas off s of ening contrast of frost and sno and river-bank in undulations softer t lay liest finisand out  ill it fell from t cloturnip-field eness and made tces s, and ed beast stood as if petrified `in unrecumbent sadness; too ill pale cloud - no sound or motion in anyt t floing sorro old Cmas smiled as -door o ligness, to deepen all t to t to prepare a s imprisonment t rengtive fellole fragrance; ant . But t  t o bless men impartially, it is because ime, ing purpose, still  secret in y, sloing .

    And yet tmas day, in spite of toms fres in , , somee so   as abundant on telpieces and picture-frames on Cmas Eve aste as ever,  scarlet clusters er midnigural singing, Maggie al, in spite of toms contemptuous insistence t tc of trembled ian clot aing on ted cloud. But t c o lift t toast and ale from tc t e ant sermon, gave te festal cer to t and uncle Moss, ors of t parlour fire, ; t, as if it co ans; t s golden oranges, bros, and talline ligmas  om could remember; it inguishing, by superior sliding and snowballs.

    Cmas  so Mr tulliver. e and defiant, and tom, t  some of t oppressed Maggie  louder and more angry in narration and assertion . ttention t tom migrated on s and racted by a sense t t ted  a good deal of quarrelling. Noom  fond of quarrelling, unless it could soon be put an end to by a fair stand-up figable talk made able, ted to ion t y in t.

    ticular embodiment of ting Mr tullivers determined resistance , ion  er er) an infringement on Mr tullivers legitimate ser-poo ration, and akems advice  carried ulliver considered,  of laensity of ion against Pivart, empt for a baffled adversary like Dix began to tac. o-day except Mr Moss,  to Mr tullivers arguments on tionsary obligation; but Mr tulliver did not talk ile intention of convincing alked to relieve rong efforts to keep e of to t, and interested in everyt affected ened and put in a en as maternal preoccupations allowed.

    `s ne it? s oime, nor yours either, before I was married.

    `Neulliver, e Mills been in our family a ter, and nobody ever  meddling ill t Bincomes farm out of ;snap.quot; But Ill pivart ulliver, lifting  ion in an unmistakable manner.

    `You  be forced to go to lay.

    `I dont kno I knoions - if to be brougo bear o t side. I knotom of it:  akem to back ells  touc: but t takes a big raskil to beat  to be found, as knos o to lose Brumleys suit for him?

    Mr tulliver rictly  man, and proud of being , but  in laice could only be acronger knave to frustrate a  of cock-fig y to get a game bird  pluck and trongest spurs.

    `Gores no fool - you neednt tell me t, ly, in a pugnacious tone, as if poor Gritty  laies, `but, you see,  up to ters a very particular t pick it up cs s to Old s plain enougs ts and ter, if you look at it straig a mill, you must er to turn it; and its no use telling me, Pivarts erigation and nonsense  stop my o er better t. talk to me os common sense, as Pivarts dykes must do me an injury. But if ts t tom to it by and by, and  find a bit more sense in t t comes to.

    tom, looking round y, at t of s, unttle  kneaneously expressed iments in a piercing yell, and  to be appeased even by toration of ttle, feeling apparently t t taken from s force. Mrs Moss o anoto Mrs tulliver  t if it o be ttle t baby clamoured for - sood baby. tifiable yell being quieted, Mrs Moss looked at er-in-law and said,

    `Im sorry to see brot out about ter work.

    `Its your brot sort before I ulliver, o Mrs Moss, in any case  matter of pure admiration. Amiable Mrs tulliver,   o ural t sy, even as t Dodson, over a er empered, untidy, prolific ion enoug only for  c for any number of collateral relations.

    `I  go to lall end. And t doesnt allays s a ric I can make out, and tly get their own way.

    `As to t, said Mrs tulliver, stroking  ricers  o do pretty muc t I times I salk about tion; and my sisters lay all t to me, for t kno is to marry a man like your broter Pullet ill night.

    `ell, said Mrs Moss, `I dont t got any s of o find s deal easier to do w pleases ones o be puzzling w else one should do.

    `If people come to talk o doing ulliver,  imitation of er Glegg, `Im sure your brot ed a long  laion no up in till o bed at nigradict ;ell Mr tulliver, do as you like; but  go to la;

    Mrs tulliver, as  influence over o do eit se impulses t ening to ulliver into `laullivers monotonous pleading less its s migo t proverbial feat or discredit of breaking trictly impartial vie rato lie  of feat peril t an ot feat settle on it  misc t Mrs tullivers feeble beseec in virtue of y; but ire assent to ative of t ulliver, to let t t to domineer over  a male tulliver o four female Dodsons, even them was Mrs Glegg.

    But not even a direct argument from t typical Dodson female  o lao so muc of akem, continually fres of too able attorney on market days. akem, to ain knoap ttom of Pivarts irrigation: akem ried to make Dix stand out, and go to la t ionably akem o lose t about t of road and t made a tunity of damaging private property to  akems rascality  peculiarly aggravated kind ion to t form of rigullivers interests and opinions. And as an extra toucterness, tly, in borroo carry a little business to akems office on . A  ious t La more like  ured man,   you  upon against akem. Gore y: but t amount of  equivalent to seeing tone  as Mr tulliver er er and in t inference t Pivart  a leg to stand on in tion, able suspicion t akem o s tionally) irrefragable inference t. But t to laulliver to employ Counsellor ylde on ead of  admirable bully against  of seeing a ness of akems made to perspire and become confounded, as Mr tullivers ness o tributive justice.

    Mucion ulliver on ts during urning of to side, as ternately; but t ill out of sigo be reac argument and iteration in domestic and social life. t initial stage of te ion of t of Mr tullivers vie t tire circle of ions ake time, and at tom o scems to be detected in atement of t Pivart, or any more specific indication of t on taking against t rasravener of t er er. Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate  instead of progress, and Mr tullivers  ainly more and more palpable. If t, t Pivart h akem.

    `Fatom, one evening near to send o Mr Stelling. It isnt true -  o be sent to France. You  like me to go to sch akems son, shall you?

    `Its no matter for t, my boy, said Mr tulliver. `Dont you learn anyts all. tur, and takes after  mucs a sign akem telling, as o him, and akem knows meal from bran.

    Mr tulliver in   t o ages as akems: but tom  at all easy on t: it om co  freedom wion.

 CHAPTER 3

    the New Schoolfellow

    It  January day on  back to sce in keeping iny. If  carried in  a parcel of sugar candy and a small Dutctle Laura, ted pleasure to enliven t o t out iny s of sugar candy, and, to give ter keenness to tion, ook out t off a crystal or t and damp odours of t ed tulliver, o see you again, said Mr Stelling, ily. `take off your o tudy till dinner. Youll find a brighere and a new companion.

    tom felt in an uncomfortable flutter as ook off er and ot St Oggs, but urned  been tom did not see  any one e of mingled embarrassment and defiance as elling to tudy.

    `o sulliver, said t gentleman on entering tudy, - `Master Po make acquaintance by yourselves. You already kno home.

    tom looked confused and aom did not like to go up and put out  prepared to say, ` a notice.

    Mr Stelling urned aheir elders.

    P once too proud and too timid to oom. , or rat, t tom o looking at , disliked looking at y  to ting furtive glances at Po be draly first one object and ted  o tom, and trying to overcome o making t advances.

    tom began to look oftener and longer at P  noticing t  a disagreeable face - very old-looking, tom t: omist - even a mere p - y of P a congenital  t of an accident in infancy; but you do not expect from tom any acquaintance inctions: to ion t ty of akems son ion to ty, of  emp too a ted fear of eful felloo figailor in ter, and er by public-spirited boys solely on tisfactory moral qualities; so t tom   a basis of fact to go upon. Still, no face could be more unlike t ugly tailors t  tom t t truly pitiable. t e clear  be able to play at anyt ly making one ter anot any trouble.  e ed someto be going for ainly more agreeable to ured o stand looking out of tudy  t against tude; sometom t o s ter not try eful tricks on h, and looked over Philips paper.

    `s donkey ridges in tongue being completely loosed by surprise and admiration. `O my buttons!I o learn drao make dogs and donkeys!

    `O you can do t learning, said Philip. `I never learned drawing.

    `Never learned? said tom, in amazement. ` come rig to be very  I daresay I could do dogs and o try more, ing t P falsely suppose t o `knock under, if oo frank about tion of s.

    `O yes, said Ps very easy. Youve only to look  t you do er t time,

    `But  you been taugom, beginning to  P be ties, `I t youd been to school a long while,

    `Yes, said Paugin and Greek and matics... and ing and suchings.

    `O but, I say, you dont like Latin tom, lowering ially.

    `Pretty  care muc it, said Philip.

    `A per got into tom, nodding o say, `t est: it alking until you came to t.

    P some bitter complacency in tupidity of tive-looking boy; but made polite by reme sensitiveness as e, ion to laugly,

    `Ive done  learn t any more.

    `t om, ment.

    `No; but I daresay I can o help you if I can.

    tom did not say `te absorbed in t t akems son did not seem so spiteful a fellow as miged.

    `I say, ly, `do you love your father?

    `Yes, said P you love yours?

    `O yes... I only ed to knoom, ratable. y in adjusting titude of mind to o  if P fact migowards clearing up y.

    `S.

    `No, said Po give all my time to othings now.

    ` Latin, and Euclid, and tom.

    `Yes, said P off using ing om ion at the donkey.

    `And you dont mind t? said tom, rong curiosity.

    `No: I like to knoudy w I like by and by.

    `I cant tin, said tom. `Its no good.

    `Its part of tion of a gentleman, said Plemen learn things.

    `, do you ter of tin? said tom,  o resemble Sir John Crake.

    ` it en it.

    `O, , tom, not ic intention, but isfaction at t as far as Latin o o remember it o learn ever so many lines of `Speaker Mr Stellings very particular - did you knoimes if you say quot;namquot; for quot;jamquot;...  let you go a letter ell you.

    `O I dont mind, said Po cory, and everyt to  tten tragedies, or else ened to by everybody for my es, and   a al superiority.)

    ` figom, ion. `Is tory? ts I like in tory of the Jews.

    `O, tories of t sort about t times s a beautiful Poem - t ttle fello very  a red- pine-tree and stuck it into thousand bulls.

    `O om, Jumping aable and stamping first ell me all about tories? Because I s learn Greek, you kno trary migleman learn Greek?... ill Mr Stelling make me begin , do you think?

    `No, I s - very likely not, said P you may read tories  kno them in English.

    `O but I dont like reading: Id sooner ell t only ting ones, you knoer Maggie is aling to tell me stories - but tupid tories alell a good many figories?

    `O Yes, said Ps of tories. I can tell you about Ric illiam allace, and Robert Bruce and James Douglas - I Know no end.

    `Youre older t you? said tom.

    `een.

    `Im only going in fourteen, said tom. `But I t Jacobs - ts  bandy and climbing. And I  us go fiso fis you? Its only standing, and sitting still, you know.

    tom, in urn,  not suppose t ance ing stories put ual figom tulliver. Po ness for active sports, and  peevishly,

    `I Cant bear fisting cer ching.

    `A you  say tell you, said tom,  retc zeal for t. akems son, it  be kept in due c intervieo dinner, and P alloo develop fart of fis tom said to   w ed from a hunchback.

 CHAPTER 4

    `the Young Idea

    ternations of feeling in t first dialogue betom and Pinued to mark tercourse even after many om never quite lost t Pural enemy, never to Py: deformity: enaciously to impressions once received: as ion predominates over t and emotion, ternal remained to  it  instance. But t  to like Pin exercises,  could only be found out be a lucky cell sucing stories about es om, because t trokes. ar could cut a cusant: o cut cus upid story, and  care to  again. But irrups and lifting tle-axe cracked at once t and too-y knig Bannockburn, tom felt all tation of sympat at  at once om to top of , ening t illery of epits at   al of peevisibility ervieom of a perpetually recurring mental ailment -  nervous irritability,  t-bitterness produced by ty. In ts of susceptibility every glance seemed to o be cy or  - at t it  glance, and P indifference as a coms blundering patronage ogetimes make urn upon te savagely, and , ained  Paugom found, to , t er gave o dra brooks and rustic bridges and ruins all ness of black-lead surface indicating t nature, if anytiny; and as toms feeling for turesque in landscape  present quite latent, it is not surprising t Mr Goodricions seemed to eresting form of art. Mr tulliver ention t tom s to some business , t tom seemed to be learning not sort:  tom sulliver must not mind paying extra for dra tom be made a good draugo turn o any purpose. So it  tom selling ed as a master if not Mr Goodrice at t of ton? By o make an extremely fine point to o represent landscape y endency in o details,  extremely dull.

    All ters egrity, and before ture. In t is no fable t telling s and large s, and ioned not to ts but to tellect -  relation. tlemen o solve o readjust tion bets and ts are not easily starved to deato be - to raise t one o do good  a loo clergymen:  t if to turn out very poor  a elling be expected to kno education e and difficult business? any more ted to ion. Mr Stellings faculties rained to boring in a strait line, and y to spare. But among toms contemporaries ruction to find t after many days, tom tulliver. Education  entirely a matter of luck - usually of ill-luck - in tant days. tate of mind in y compared  of old-fasulliver, or for t men, u pic system, and e of tage, o give tter star in life t necessarily take to tence of ter urn of linen, fork, and spoon. It ance  brougo t young gentleman, at ty,  closed ions by an imprudent marriage: ot fat for to be on tion of a grammar sc unvisited by commissioners o tages of a large and lofty building, togeter, toote indistinctness and inattention  te of tless, ed; but all ripeness beneatage less esteemed in t.

    tom tulliver, tisime s of more or less relevant kno deal of strictly relevant ignorance,  so very unlucky. Mr Stelling ion t a groain y kindness in  made o see tom looking e issues belonging to everyday duties; not quite competent to  incompetent gentlemen must live, and  private fortune, it is difficult to see eelly if to do ion or government. Besides it  of toms mental Constitution t ies could not be nouris of knoelling o communicate. A boy born  poions must suffer ty of al deficiency, just as if er tion sanctioned by tice of our venerable ancestors  to give ional dulness of a boy ime t. And Mr Stelling  a boy so stupid at signs and abstractions must be stupid at everyt reverend gentleman could aug ice of our venerable ancestors to apply t ingenious instrument to tigig in order to elicit non-existent facts: to begin  ts ent, and  to tigelling  all boys y could learn  o teac be tig be insisted on y, and a page of Virgil be ay, to encourage and stimulate a too languid inclination to Latin verse.

    Neverttle during tudies and so apt, t Mr Stelling could obtain credit by y oms dulness. Gentlemen s and ambitious intentions do sometimes disappoint to carry t is, t s demand some otion besides an unusual desire for  is t tal gentlemen are rat, ticulam aurae being obstructed from soaring by a too y appetite. Some reason or otelling deferred tion of many spirited projects - ing of , after turning te study ion, sat doo one of tom o so o make some s being cross-examined into betrayal t irely neutral in tter.  scion of circumstances; and  on contentedly enougion c  intended as education at all.  ood to be ion, ice of reading, ing and spelling, carried on by an elaborate appliance of unintelligible ideas and by muc to learn by rote.

    Nevert in tom under training; per a boy in tract existing solely to illustrate taken education, but a boy made of flesions not entirely at tances.

    t improvement in  on to Mr Poulter, ter, om - a source of ual pleasure. Mr Poulter,  to ruck terror into ts of tremulous in t from age, but from treme perversity of ton boys ain ill, ial erectness, rousers tigrapped, and on turday afternoons om, ionally spirited air, as of a superannuated cracted by episodes of ive muceresting to tom tories out of tom  some disgust on learning t or and Ac possibly never ed. But ton ers reminiscences of ter, it appeared,  talavera, and ributed not a little to terror  of infantry ernoons ed t ton rict privacy, lest jealousies seem for t fine felloer. ttended al after  ers flesime. On less personal matters connected ant icent, only taking care not to give t of y to any loose notions concerning military ory. Any one o a kno t of silent pity to Mr Poulter:  prating person rampled out of  t go-off, as  talk about tom did not escape irritating er occasionally, by y concerning otary matters ters personal experience.

    `And General olfe, Mr Poulter?  er? said tom,  all tial ed on th Bony.

    `Not at all! said Mr Poulter, contemptuously. `Not!... one of stern command, om and made  in his own person.

    `No, no! Mr Poulter inue, on coming to a pause in ter not talk to me about General olfe.  die of s a poor ion, I consider. Any ots ud hakilled a fellow like General olfe.

    `Mr Poulter, tom  any allusion to the sword-exercise!

    For a long  t, and smiled patronisingly, as Jupiter may oo ambitious request. But one afternoon er ty minutes longer t t - just for tom to look at.

    `And t tles, Mr Poulter? said tom, . ` ever cut a Frenchmans head off?

    `hree heads.

    `But you  besides? said tom. `I s best, because you could s em first and spear em after. Bang! Ps-s-s-s! tom gave te pantomime to indicate t of pulling trigger and ting the spear.

    `A to close figer, involuntarily falling in oms ent tom leaped back y.

    `O but, Mr Poulter, if youre going to do tom, a little conscious t  stood  me go and call Po see you, you know.

    `! ter contemptuously. `s the use of his looking on?

    `O but  deal about figom, `and o figtle-axes.

    `Let  from er, cougtle preliminary play to .

    tom ran in to Pernoons  t tunes for ool, e cornice, and , impromptu syllables to a tune of Arnes; w his fancy.

    `Come, Pom, bursting in. `Dont stay roaring la la ter do he carriage-house!

    terruption - toms tones coming across tes to ion of Poulter ter. And tom, in to say to prevent Mr Poulter from t, ed on tion to fetc Ped to ion om  under tress of his personal pride.

    Purning red,  passion,

    `Get a! Dont come bello me - youre not fit to speak to anyt a cart horse!

    It  t time P tom  ood so well.

    `Im fit to speak to sometter ted imp! said tom, ligely at P  you - because youre no better t Im an  mans son, and your fathers a rogue - everybody says so!

    tom flung out of ter rangely o slam doors elling, o be  by ty lines of Virgil. In fact, t lady did presently descend from  t cessation of Pting in a terly.

    `s tter, akem?   noise about? he door?

    Pily dried  ulliver o go out h him.

    `And rouble about? said Mrs Stelling.

    P e of t so  oanding very mucs an invitation to s of elling  a loving, tender-ed  ted er your less, represent a great social po it is not poher power could win Philip from his personal reserve.

    o ion, `My tooterical again.

    t once, and Pion - it ion to enable o excuse o accept eau-de-cologne, and to refuse creosote in consequence, but t was easy.

    Meanime sent a poisoned arroo P, urned to ter  eye, ing tions of  but inappreciative rats. But Mr Poulter o say, ators could ook no notice of toms return, being too entirely absorbed in t and t - tom, not  a slig Mr Poulters fixed eye and ient for someto cut besides t a distance as possible. It  until Mr Poulter paused and ion from  tom felt t to be repeated.

    `Mr Poulter, said tom, wtle wo keep.

    `No, no, young gentleman, said Mr Poulter, s do yourself some misc.

    `No, Im sure I  - Im sure Id take care and not  myself. I s take it out of t I could ground arms , and all t.

    `No, no, it  do, I tell you, it  do, said Mr Poulter, preparing to depart. ` ud Mr Stelling say to me?

    `O, I say, do, Mr Poulter! Id give you my five-s me keep tom, reac ttractively large round of silver. ted t as well as if he had been a philosopher.

    `ell, said Mr Poulter, ill deeper gravity, `you must keep it out of sight, you know.

    `O yes, Ill keep it under tom, eagerly, `or else at ttom of my large box.

    `And let me see, no of t ing yourself.

    t process er felt t ed iousness and said, `ell, noer tulliver, if I take t is to make sure as youll do no mische sword.

    `O no, indeed, Mr Poulter, said tom delig, miger age.

    `But if Mr Stelling catc in, said Mr

    Poulter, pocketing t.

    `O airs study on Saturday afternoons, said tom,  disinclined to a little stratagem in a riump  encounter Mr or Mrs Stelling - to er some consideration,  in t be nig t onis  round  er, and make  t o be a soldier. t Maggie   o see tom before s to a boarding-sch Lucy.

    If you teen   be an exceptionally o a civil calling, requiring you to look bland rat never, since you o a martial attitude and fro is doubtful  pacific people at o fancy tic spectacles, mig of a `public.

 CHAPTER 5

    Maggies Second Visit

    t breac readily mended and for some time to eacural antipatemperament made resentment an easy passage to red, and in Pransition seemed to y in ion, but tibility t made o a strong sense of repulsion. ture to assert it on ty of a great classic - is not given to use eetrument of attack; and tom  bovine lad, ionable objects in a truly ingenuous bovine manner; but enderest point, and e pain as if udied t precision and t envenomed spite. tom sao P ually made part of o tion betterance did not make suco  did to P to say so,   advances toy  met, o  favourable disposition too  drao eaco prevent tate of feud from being observed by Mr Stelling,  at t elling. tom, some  stupid stories like ion t  be very clever: soo, alk to enderness for deformed t seemed to  te strong and  mind so muc being petted, and sting objects t  very deligo be petted by om very dearly, but sen wis  her loving him.

    `I tom, s out of tudy togeto to pass terval before dinner. ` cs o be t a good man. You like  you?

    `O, om, curtly, `and old  to tell  rue - and ,  you can stop , Magsie,  somet to do upstairs.

    `Cant I go too? said Maggie, ing again, loved toms shadow.

    `No, its sometell you about by and by, not yet, said tom, skipping away.

    In ternoon, t tudy, preparing t t om  but impatient Cating ale of paternosters, and P tented diligence t excited Maggies curiosity:  look at all as if  on a loool at nearly rigc one and to tioning dark eyes fixed upon  ter of tullivers seemed a nice little te unlike tle sister.  ,  made Maggies dark eyes remind ories about princesses being turned into animals?... I t  isfied intelligence and unsatisfied, beseecion.

    `I say, Magsie, said tom at last, sting ting t master in t of `leaving off, `Ive done my lessons noairs h me.

    ` is it? said Maggie  suspicion crossing oms Preliminary visit upstairs. `It isnt trick youre going to play me, now?

    `No, no, Maggie, said tom, in  coaxing tone. `Its something youll like ever so.

    , and toget upstairs.

    `I say, Magsie, you must not tell anybody, you knoom, `else I s fifty lines.

    `Is it alive? said Maggie, led for t on t tom kept a ferret clandestinely.

    `O, I s tell you, said o t corner and  out, ell you urn round. You mustnt squeal out, you know

    `O, but if you frigo look rather serious.

    `You  be frigom. `Go and  peep.

    `Of course I s peep, said Maggie, disdainfully: and srict honour.

    But tom looked round ; tepped into t closed t  t dream-suggestive attitude sten om called out, `Nohen, Magsie!

    Not long meditation and preconcerted arrangement of effects could om to present so striking a figure as o Maggie  of a face   of flaxen eyebrooget refused to look formidable let old om ried  to make a o t unfailing source of terrible, burnt cork, and  met in a satisfactory manner over ced blackness about to give it turban, and er across  as a scarf - an amount of red s point resting on to convey an approximate idea of y disposition.

    Maggie looked be, and tom enjoyed t moment keenly; but in t, sogetom, Youve made yourself like Bluebeard at the show.

    It ruck   uns appeal to its sense of terrible, and tom prepared for erstroke. Fro of intention, if not of corrugation, s sed it at Maggie.

    `O tom, please dont, exclaimed Maggie, in a tone of suppressed dread, so te corner, `I s! I wisairs!

    toms moution to a smile of complacency t ely cent y of a great  it soo mucernly,

    `Im ton! Marcamping for leg a little bent, and till pointing toear-filled eyes, got upon them.

    tom, ator of ary performances, even tator most exertion of o sucion of t and t as ed of ton.

    `tom, I  bear it - I  t movement of t yourself, youll cut your head off!

    `One - tom, resolutely, t `trembled a little. `t ts edge on toms foot, and in a moment after, oo. Maggie leaped from till sely tsteps toelling, from airs study,  to enter. om ed and Maggie   s e som  sorro t   - it seemed as if all happiness lay in his being alive.

 CHAPTER 6

    A Love Scene

    POOR tom bore e in not `telling of Mr Poulter more t event to Maggie. But terrible dread   even ask tion al `yes -  ask telling `Sered  to cry out at t ed by ogetom  on crutcs son, and Maggie, o to Mr Stelling to anticipate toms mind and to reassure  Pc of telling to ask tion t tom  dared to ask for  does Mr Askern say tulliver will be lame?

    `O no, O no, said Mr Stelling, `not permanently. Only for a little while.

    `Did ell tulliver so, sir, do you think?

    `No: noto .

    `tell him sir?

    `Yes, to be sure: noion it, I daresay roubling about t. Go to  be very quiet at present.

    It  t ulliver be lame? It  pity. P t tate of repulsion but o a common current of suffering and sad privation. ion did not dy and its future effect on toms life, but it made vividly present to ate of toms feeling: een years, but t of teeped in t irremediably hard.

    `Mr Askern says youll soon be all rigulliver, did you Knoly up to toms bed. `Ive just been to ask Mr Stelling, and he says youll walk as well as ever again, by and by.

    tom looked up  momentary stopping of turned raig done for a fortnigimation of a possibility s t of before affected rouble: toms being al sucune  likely to befall o him and cried afresh.

    `Dont be a little silly, Magsie, said tom, tenderly, feeling very brave now. `I s well.

    `Goodby, tulliver, said Pting out e om clasped immediately antial fingers.

    `I say, said tom `ask Mr Stelling to let you come and sit imes, till I get up again, akem - and tell me about Robert Bruce, you know.

    After t, P all ime out of scom and Maggie. tom liked to ing stories as muc ed strongly on t t t fig,  armour from o foot  interest to a neory of P a man  so dreadfully   put  island,  some o kill animals h for food.

    `I didnt roar out a bit, you knoom said, `and I daresay my foot o roar.

    But Maggie  e permissible to cry out, and it  to bear it. Sed to knoes er, and  island and take care of him.

    One day, soon after Pold tory, udy alone togetoms foot ering idly round t caring to do anyticular, because so tom again,  and leaned on table near Po see ly at her.

    ` are you reading about in Greek? ss poetry - I can see t, because t.

    `Its about Petes - telling you of yesterday, ing   at all sorry to be interrupted. Maggie, in  inued to lean foring on  about,  as if se forgotten Philip and his book.

    `Maggie, said Per a minute or till leaning on  om?

    Maggie started a little on being roused for ? Ped ion.

    `O yes, better, sely. `No, not better: because I dont tter tom. But I should be so sorry - so sorry for you.

    P to imply,   so plainly, y. Maggie, young as s ake. o sinctively bee unconscious of Py: iveness and experience under family criticism sufficed to teaced by t finished breeding.

    `But you are so very clever, Pay at om  out, and you eac you? Greek and everything.

    `But youll go ao sc all about me and not care for me any more. And take any notice of me.

    `O no, I s forget you, Im sure, said Maggie, s anyt everybody ell tom, because it le dog - nobody cares about  tom and me.

    `Do you care as muc me as you do about Yap, Maggie? said Pher sadly.

    `O yes, I shink so, said Maggie, laughing.

    `Iam very fond of you, Maggie; I s you, said Per  like yours.

    ` .

    `I dont knorying to speak - trying to speak kindly. I dont like oto look at me muc I like you to look at me, Maggie.

    `om is, said Maggie, rat s as hough he was crooked, she said,

    `So kiss you, as I do tom? I will, if you like.

    `Yes, very much: nobody kisses me.

    Maggie put e earnestly.

    `ts ever so long. But Ill go nooms foot.

    ime, Maggie said to o tom - oo, tom, dont you? Say you love reatingly.

    tom coloured a little as   be friends   up no augo play at draug him.

    `ell, ell, said Mr tulliver, `if o you, try and make o ur and takes after  dont you be getting too t oo. Ay, ay, t may co kick like his black sire.

    tures of ted ullivers admonition alone migo effect: in spite of Poms ansime of rouble tom by and by began to  as usual, t y and gratitude died out by degrees, and left tion to eacen peevisemptuous: and toms more specific and kindly impressions gradually melted into toogetransient feeling, t be made of metal t ably fall asunder .

 CHAPTER 7

    tes Are Passed

    SO tom  on even to till urned sixteen - at Kings Lorton, oers to tom s o Pions about ences about toms tooturf-o build in tems of t kind. So om say in t Pen cross: tom t  alo love Po   my fault: I dont do anyto  t Cmas s  long intervals in treets of St Oggs. , so kiss , as a young lady  of tion, and P expect it. t, illusory promises of our carry blossoms greo be fulfilled ened la, and akem, as t at once of Pivart and Old ing against ,  t likely ever to imacy  if t crookbacked son lived to in ten gains, ttle to do  sco tom; and telling by time ional pupils; for tlemans rise in t of t meteor-like rapidity o enable o increase ure in continued disproportion to his income.

    As for toms sc  on ony, inuing to move ifled pulse in a medium of uninteresting or unintelligible ideas. But eacion  iny rendering of landscape and er-colours in vivid greens, toget books full of exercises and problems, in o it. Eacion  ing  stages of ory, Cian doctrine, and Latin literature; and t passage  entirely  result besides toms ear and tongue omed to a great many o be signs of an educated condition, and to any one of  a deposit of vague, fragmentary ineffectual notions. Mr tulliver, seeing signs of acquirement beyond ticism, t it ion:  t enoug  to Mr Stelling. It ook tom aer effect?

    By time tom  quarter at Kings Lorton, triking curning from Mr Jacobs Academy. all yout t a more som of blended diffidence and pride: ailed coat and and-up collars, and cience looking every day at   - at tumn quarter - t  go to ter, for to give tom ttled, exulting feeling t usually belongs to t monter too, t being decided: t made t of irely pleasurable. For tom,  Pivart en.

    tom

    to manifest tion in unnecessary letters - old, soon after entering tudy at nine oclock, t er  elling udy to tell  o enter the drawing-room alone.

    Maggie too all no as tall as tom, teen; and s t moment. S,   bear t extra load, and rangely oom entered, s speak, but only  up to  ly. o various moods of  no alarm at ting.

    ` youre come so early tom, as soo her side.

    `No, I came by turnpike.

    `But  youre not at sc begun yet?

    `Fated me at  trembling of three or four days ago.

    `Isnt my fatom, rather anxiously.

    `Not quite, said Maggie. `om. t is ended, and I came to tell you, because I t it ter for you to kno before you came  like only to send you a letter.

    `My fat lost? said tom, ily, springing from tanding before Maggie  in s.

    `Yes, dear tom, said Maggie, looking up at rembling.

    tom  a minute or then he said--

    `My fato pay a good deal of money, then?

    `Yes, said Maggie, ratly.

    `ell, it cant be om, bravely, not translating to any tangible results. `But my fat Maggie, and t ated face  of aking things.

    `Yes, said Maggie, again faintly. to fuller speecoms freedom from appre from om, .

    toms eyes flas one look of surprise at urned pale and trembled visibly.  sat do of te window.

    Anxiety about ture ered toms mind.  a good  air of a man y to fall back upon. tom   une e ions, least of all ability  of tom  up in.  Oggs o support it, and empt and reprobation: rong belief, e evidence to rest on, t  deal of money if ion at Mr Stellings en t t s of a fine young man, and so any of emporaries at St Oggs, y, because to tics and s and uncles, t effect on  to make  aunts and uncles y:  in mucter they did.

    toms lip, yet s and expectations o only tion in c shock.

    Maggie oms pale, trembling silence. to tell  last, and said, h a half sob,

    `O tom - dear, dear tom, dont fret too mucry and bear it well.

    tom turned o meet reating kisses, and ture in  rubbed aion seemed to rouse  my fato go?

    `No, tom, fat  o master ation: -  s you to come - poor motom, its very dreadful at home.

    Maggies lips greremble almost as tom o eacrembling - t an uns terrible certainty.  was hardly above a whisper.

    `And ... and ... poor father ...

    Maggie could not utter it. But tolerable to tom. A vague idea of going to prison as a consequence of debt, o take.

    `iently. `tell me, Maggie.

    `  easier to reply to t question. `But, ser a pause, `not  me ever since... . o  her... .

    it  fortruggle against tom felt t pressure of t  vision of troubles as Maggie   t of igated misfortune. ig convulsively round Maggie as s earless - ain of cloud h.

    But Maggie soon cly: a single t ed on artling sound.

    `e must set out, tom -  not stay - fat be at turnpike at ten to meet ty decision, rubbing o seize .

    tom at once felt too. `ait a minute, Maggie,  speak to Mr Stelling, and then well go.

    go to tudy elling, o be in trouble er o inquire and offer hy.

    `Please, sir, I must go om said abruptly, as  Mr Stelling in t go back er directly. My fat  -  all y - and hes very ill.

    Mr Stelling felt like a kind-ed man:  ty at ter for o get ure, only elling,  the room.

    tom and Maggie anding on tep, ready to set out, tle basket,  somet  out toly. It  sign  ne susceptibility to ty ains of affection.

    Mr Stelling put oms s me kno tom en t  sc o an end.

    t on tant road -  being hedgerow.

    togeto tered tes of them.

 BOOK 3 CHAPTER 1

    home

    ulliver first kne t t   Pivart and akem riump, every one ime t t for so confident and -tempered a man  so  o s if akem or anybody else considered aken.  refuse to see t ts of tracted suit ake more to pay t o o be full of expedients by  sucolerable, and could avoid tinacy and defiance of ure, driven out of t for te formation of plans by ulliver of Dorlcote Mill in spite of ts in  it torney, Mr Gore, and mounted o ride gage on terest, Mr tulliver o purcate including tead, but  Mr tulliver as tenant, and be o advance money to be repaid erest out of ts of to ulliver only taking enougo maintain  sucable investment? Certainly not Furley, for Mr tulliver ermined t Furley s most alacrity; and t yet been dangerously ed by t o see in terest or desires a motive for otions. t (in t Furley   ill ts of t migulliver ill a good many years of life before   ts of t could be paid  o turn out of  ainly an a in  suretys April, and left  of t ullivers banking book less pleasant reading t desire toraveller in tious business  t some montor ulliver, still confident t , and finding it eminently inconvenient to raise til t desirable issue aken place, o t ure and some ots as security in lieu of t y any more t noo , and  term   outly t o  noly, t it  rigural t Bessy so ts and explain to t Bessys furniture be sold, and it migy to Pullet, if er all, be no gift or favour in tter. Mr tulliver  and most obstinate men o s tion and contradict to to face t, t ted and must begin life aneulliver, you perceive, tster, inate as if y personage, in  cinacy of millers and ot people, ragedy too, but it is of t un, , t goes on from generation to generation and leaves no record - sucragedy, pers of young souls,  made suddenly o t, and  discontent of ed parents  follo may be a deat finds only a parisain animals to y of position is a laer a single o believe in it, and, in tion, predominate still.

    Mr tulliver ill predominating in ion as  Oggs, to pass on   t suggested to ering too follo to t to e a letter requiring Maggie to come  day? Mr tullivers o for o e ed tter to be given to to deliver at Miss Firnisss sc account for to o  delay - s come back by to-morrow.

    to Mrs tulliver ies, and scolded do , by angry assertions t to grieve about. o  nig tion to Mrs Pullet, for  ure of t transaction and y for taking an inventory of tter connected ellect, is, like ottended  y for using a little deception.

    t day Mr tulliver  St Oggs. Gore o o ion to Mr tullivers affairs. But  gone  a clerk from Mr Gores office, o Mr tulliver. Mr Gore ed by a sudden call of business from ing at o see Mr tulliver according to appointment, but   eleven to-morroant information by letter.

    `O! said Mr tulliver, taking tter, but not opening it. `tell Gore Ill see omorro eleven. And urned his horse.

    truck ullivers glistening excited glance, looked after s, and tter  tant to Mr tulliver: ook in tatement very sloten or even printed cers; so  tter in , t in   by and by it occurred to  t be sometter Mrs tulliver must not kno, and if so, it ter to keep it out of  altogetopped ook out tter and read it. It ter: tance  Mr Gore ained on secret but sure auty t Furley ely mucraitened for money, and ed ies, among t, tgage on Mr tullivers property, o - akem.

    In er tullivers oer neat  him.

    evening in obedience to  an er vague, vacant looks around tered somet `a letter, ed impatiently. At tance of Mr turnbull, tter o be allayed. tricken man lay for some time ter, as if rying to knit up s by its  presently a neo  turned ter to ter looking uneasily, as if striving to see sometoo dim for, tle wench.

    ed tiently from time to time, appearing entirely unconscious of everyt tunate , and giving no sign of kno paralysed by tion of troubles,  backo te to see if t  yet time.

    But it came at last and set dotle o hers fond memory.

    `O mot is tter? Maggie said, oter  ation from t St Oggs.

    But Mr turnbull came noo meet roubled orembling, questioning look.

    `Dont alarm yourself too mucaking tack, and  quite recovered

    as you can: take off your tairs h me.

    Maggie obeyed,  terrible beating of t ion. tness urnbull spoke, ened ible imagination. ill turned uneasily toered and met trange, yearning,  , owards h agonised kisses.

    Poor c s in life , - is lost, like a trivial memory, in t simple, primitive love o t to us, in times of helplessness or of anguish.

    But t flasion oo great a strain on ty and rigidity  o o  of infantine satisfaction in Maggies near presence - sucisfaction as a baby  is returned to the nurses lap.

    Mrs tulliver sent for ers, and ting up of airs: bots sa te as t, and t a judgment ulliver, y to counteract by too muc Maggie tle of t opposite ulliver ed to om fetco be t ts and uncles opposed tom ter at scurnbull said te danger,  at tomed to s of insensibility, and to tation t  of tom  oo, and  nigs not rig me go for ell omorro kno me. It o come  kno it beforehand.

    And t morning Maggie , as ing on ter talked to eacerrupted whispers.

    `t a mortgage or sometom, said Maggie. `It ter  ne t made fathink.

    `I believe t scoundrels been planning all along to ruin my fatom, leaping from t impressions to a definite conclusion. `Ill make  wo Philip again.

    `O tom! said Maggie, in a tone of sad remonstrance; but s to dispute anytill less to vex tom by opposing him.

 CHAPTER 2

    Mrs tullivers teraphim, or household Gods

    doom and Maggie, it ed from rembling t tle  migered tom, but in trance sartled by a strong smell of tobacco. t range: could any visitor be smoking at a time like t be told t tom er t of opening tom came up and togetom ion, sitting in h a jug and glass beside him.

    trutoms mind in an instant. to `o be sold up, tle boy: t of to tion of poor  seemed only natural t all y, and  of no more special cause for ticular form of misfortune t. But te presence of to tom t form of appre  at t as if rouble  begun: it oucated nerve compared s spontaneous dull aching.

    `aking t of y. tartled faces made tle uncomfortable.

    But tom turned a speaking: t oo eful. Maggie  understood tranger, as tom  be, tom?  is tter? t tranger migo do airs, c to t, and enter on tiptoe. All  t   not her.

    ` did not know.

    Maggie ened out, and said to tom, `Fat: let us go and look for my mother; I wonder where she is.

    Mrs tulliver  doairs - not in any of t one room belotic ore-room  om, preceding Maggie as turned along tely said, `Mother!

    Mrs tulliver ed treasures. One of ts ea-pot s many folds of paper, and t c on top of t; spoons and sketer tension of table cloths she held in her lap.

    Sarted up as tom spoke.

    `O my boy, my boy, so to see to be sold up... to to bring me to t not go to the workhouse...

    Sed ook anotable clot a little o look at ttern, e ce filled for t he words `beggars and `workhouse.

    `to t on, lifting t and turning tement all trange and piteous because tout lympic  t tanding at t o marrying your fattern as I ciful - and I marked em so as nobody ever sa to get it out, for its a particular stitco be sold - and go into strange peoples   before Im dead. Youll never  tom ears, `and I meant em for you. I ed you to tern. Maggie could  never s.

    tom ouco t tion immediately. his face flushed as he said.

    `But s let t it? t your linen go,  you sent to them?

    `Yes, I sent Luke directly t t Pullets been - and O dear, O dear, s talk o try: and sted cloted ot pattern, and t go to strangers, but s more culliver began to lay back table clot, folding and stroking tomatically.) `And your uncle Gleggs been too, and  be bougo lie do  talk to your aunt; and to consult... . But I knoake my curning to  em, cause o t t better c even your aunt Pullet  it urned fifteen, and tea-pot, too - your fato t me to this.

    Mrs tulliver burst out crying afres s, but t, sing ill o speak before she could command her voice,

    `And I did say to imes and times, `iver you do, dont go to la by , and  isnt your poor mot.

    S out one arm toom, looking up at eously  to o  time tom t of ural inclination to blame, - o kept entirely in abeyance too t, simply on t om tullivers faturned into ts, and ion against akem to mingle some indignation of anot. Per alk of tempt: but no one salk long of tom tulliver empt. tural strengture o assert itself, urged by timulus of resentment against s, and t  beake care of her.

    `Dont fret, motenderly. `I so get money: Ill get a situation of some sort.

    `Bless you, my boy! said Mrs tulliver, a little soot I s  things wi my name on em.

    Maggie nessed t  of living deatralised all y for griefs about table clot ic resentment at toms silent concurrence ting  from ty. S indifferent to ual depreciation of  so any sanction of it,  s suspect in tom. Poor Maggie edness, but put fortrongly. S out, at last, in an agitated, almost violent tone, `Motalk so? As if you cared only for t for o care about anyt dear fato us again. tom, you ougo say so too - you oug to let any one find fault her.

    Maggie, almost c took   out to ronger movement t t t people  evil tempers. enderness  hing for his sake.

    tom tle s Maggies outburst - telling  it o ter toring, assuming manners by time. But ly  into  touc effaced ter impressions of t to   by t ther and one sorrow.

 CHAPTER 3

    the Family Council

    It  eleven oclock t morning t ts and uncles came to ation. ted in tulliver,  it  occasion, like a funeral, unbagged tassels and unpinned tains, adjusting t tops and legs of tables,   accuse of insufficient brig coming -  Mrs Deane appeared punctually in t o it and t driving it, raits in er to some of  Oggs. Mr Deane ulliver , and in Mrs Deanes e o e a subordinate position as a mere supplement to ticles of t years: a cerly intercourse bet Susan ting `like t, and ttle of true Dodson spirit surviving except in  miged t a distance are naturally less faulty tely under our o seems superfluous, tle to do o inquire furthem `blameless.

    Mrs Deane  to arrive, and ulliver came doo tle distorted nearly as it ears, except in moments  s ting it o be quite calm under present circumstances.

    `O sister, ered. ` trouble, O dear!

    Mrs Deane ing tero  spoken very properly.

    `Yes, sister, sely, `t knoo-day  its rigo be prepared for all troubles sent, to remember as it isnt sent  a cause. Im very sorry for you as a sister, and if tor orders jelly for Mr tulliver, I  me kno  is but rigtendance while hes ill.

    `tulliver, ratly,  ers t talk o jelly yet. ter a moments pause, s jelly-glasses upstairs... . I s jelly into em no more.

    ated as stered t  ted s. Mr and Mrs Glegg  immediately follo.

    Mrs Pullet entered crying, as a compendious mode, at all times, of expressing icular case before her.

    Mrs Glegg  front, and garments ion from ratume selected illing perfect y into Bessy and her children.

    `Mrs G.,  you come nearer to take table seat  offering it to her.

    `You see Ive seated myself urned t yourself, if you like.

    `ell, said Mr Glegg, seating airs?

    `Dr turnbull t ter tulliver; `ook more notice, and spoke to me - but om yet - looks at tranger, t tom and tor says  knoom because tle. Eh dear, eh dear!

    `I doubt its ter got on  Pullet, turning round from adjusting  ts mucs up again, and if  like be ce lost t t a Bato dra , Bessy.

    `Sister Pullet, said Mrs Glegg, severely, `if I understand rigoget advise and consult about o be done in t to talk o people as dont belong to us. Mr Carr ed h us, as Ive ever heared.

    `Sister Glegg, said Mrs Pullet in a pleading tone, draated manner, `if youve got anytful to say oMr Carr, I do beg of you, as you  say it to me. I knoo t degree as you could wo rooms off.

    `Sop disgust, `you do talk o peoples complaints till its quite undecent. But I say again, as I said before, I didnt come aalk about acquaintance,  come togeto  to save a sister and  act  t isnt to be expected as I shing.

    `ell, Jane, said Mrs Pullet, `I dont see as youve been so very forrard at doing. So far as I kno time as s been knoerday and looked at all Bessys linen and told ted table clot speak fairer; for as for tea-pot as s  to go out o t stands to sense I cant do ea-pots, not if it  a straig - but tted damask I was allays fond on.

    `I ea-pot and c castors neednt be put up for sale, said poor Mrs tulliver, beseecongs, t t.

    `But t cant be o buy em in, t one t be bid for as her.

    `And it isnt to be looked for, said uncle Pullet, ed independence of idea, `as your own family scion.

    `O dear, O dear, said Mrs tulliver, `to t  I , and t broke, for Ive ulips on t go and look at em for pleasure. You  like your co go for an old song and be broke to pieces, t no colour in it, Jane - its all ed, and didnt cost so mucors - sister Deane, I cant t youd like to ors, for Ive ty.

    `ell, Ive no objection to buy some of t tily. `e can do ra things in our house.

    `Best ty y from  drives me past patience to alking o best t and t bring your mind to your circumstances, Bessy, and not be t  to cover you, and a stool to sit on. You must remember, if you get em, itll be because your friends  em for you, for youre dependent upo t got a penny i to call s for your os rig your state is, and  to look to for everything - and be humble in your mind.

    Mrs Glegg paused, for speaking urally exing. Mrs tulliver, aler Jane, ender years, said pleadingly,

    `Im sure, sister, Ive never asked anybody to do anyt ud be a pleasure to em to nt go and be spoiled i strange o buy t  one o t t o  Ive said noted my sisters to pay t my ers unknoer off t  been as  money and never asked for it again.

    `Come, come, said Mr Glegg, kindly, `dont let us make too dark. s done cant be undone. e s among us to buy  for you - t be useful, plain tnt be ts unnecessary. A table and a cc ead o t a deal o useless t us, only because  to spend.

    `Mr Glegg, said Mrs G., `if youll be kind enougo let me speak, istead of taking t o my mouto say, Bessy, as its fine talking for you to say as youve never asked us to buy anyt me tell you, you ougo o be purvided for, if your o  go to t. And you ougo kno, and keep it in mind, and ask us o do ead o saying, and making a boast, as youve never asked us for anything.

    `You talked o t Mr tullivers done for em, said Uncle Pullet,  to do somet em money, t to be made to pay it back.

    `Yes, to be sure, said Mrs Deane, `Ive been t Mr and Mrs Moss arent o meet us? It is but righeir share.

    `O dear! said Mrs tulliver, `I niver sent em  Mr tulliver, and t Basset, to market. But I niver gave em a t. I , t Moss.

    ` your c, at tion of Maggie. `t ts and uncles  to say: - and Maggie - o t Pullet nor of aunt Mosses. I may go off sudden elling.

    `If Id . Its time to look to, and its rigalk to em, and let em knoion i life, and o, and make em feel as t to suffer for ts.

    `ell, Ill go and fetcer, said Mrs tulliver, resignedly; se crus of treasures in tore-room han blank despair.

    S upstairs to fetcom and Maggie, ore-room door suggested a ne to  to and left to go dohemselves.

    ts and uncles appeared to er entered - botance; for tom ical sagacity ivity by trong stimulus of tions erday, urning over in  to propose to one of s or uncles,  by no means amicably toing t once, as rated p just endurable in small drauger brief rest, at t strange dreamy o be a mere margin to trance interrupted tion. t ceremony, till uncle Pullet observed, as tom approached him--

    `ell, young sir, alking as e rarely noer all your schink.

    `Ay, ay, said uncle Glegg, ion o be kind, ` look to see thers sunk so much money in now.

    ` t excellent -

    Noime, tom, to let us see t us see in  it. But I began tle, you see: I could live on a basin o porridge and a crust o bread and c I doubt   was for me.

    `But  do it, interposed aunt Glegg, energetically, ` to consider o trusten to o keep  to bear ts o , and bring o fare o o s and uncles for  be turned out into treets and go to t er, too, continued Mrs Glegg, looking severely at Maggie,  Deane, drao  s make up o be s to  on  remember t. S do t respect and love s, as o leave to their nevvies and nieces.

    tom ill standing before table in tre of tened colour in  o say, in a respectful tone, sometated, wered.

    Poor Mrs tulliver ray on , a specimen tea-cup and saucer, tors, and sugar tongs.

    `See er, s Mrs Deane, as s tray on table, `I t, per tea-pot again - its a good ern better: it makes beautiful tea, and tand and everyt use it for every day, or else lay it by for Lucy  at t sears coming, `my tea-pot as I bougo ts being scratc before travellers and folks - and my letters on it - see o see em.

    `A Pullet, ss very bad - to tials going about everyer, Bessy! But ea-pot - s got t straig too.

    `As to disgrace o t cant be ea-pots. to  o beggary. to be sold up. e cant ry from kno.

    Maggie arted up from t to  tom sao prevent , Maggie, atively, pus ation of self-command and practical judgment in a lad of fifteen t  and respectful manner, trembling in  o the quick.

    `t, raig Mrs Glegg, `if you ts a disgrace to t  be better to prevent it altoget Pullet, inued, looking at tter, `to me and Maggie,  it be better to give it no o be sold up for, and save my moting ure?

    ts, for every one, including Maggie, onis toms sudden manliness of tone. Uncle Glegg  to speak.

    `Ay, ay, young man - come no terest, you must remember - your aunts get five per cent on t, if t - you  t o t.

    `I could  every year, said tom, promptly. `Id do anyto save my moting hings.

    `ell done! said uncle Glegg, admiringly. om out, rating on ticability of  unate result of irritating his wife.

    `Yes, Mr Glegg! said t lady, s pleasant o be giving my money aended to leave at my o, and not yours, Mr Glegg, and Ive saved it and added to it myself and o put out s to go and be sunk in oture, and encourage em in luxury and extravagance as ting, and Im to alter my  and been careful, and t o to go and be squandered on teful. Sister Pullet, you may do as you like, and you may let your  t isnt my sperrit.

    `La, Jane, . `Im sure youll o be cupped. Im sorry for Bessy and s dreadful, for I sleep very bad  its no use for me to t meet me half way.

    `o be considered, said Mr Glegg. `Its no use to pay off t and save ture, ock, for Ive made t out from Lao keep tead o spending it on furniture as  nor drink. You  know w was reasonable.

    `towards ly.

    toms countenance ion, and  ermined not to give er ary deligoms speeco ate of trembling indignation. anding close by toms side and o  spoken: Maggie suddenly started up and stood in front of the eyes of a young lioness.

    ` out, `talking, and interfering  mean to do anyto er - if youve no feeling for rouble, and  part , to save  come to find fault ter trouble. tom and I dont ever  to   !  you.

    Maggie,  aunts and uncles in tood still,  to a all consequences.

    Mrs tulliver ous in tbreak: s see er it. tom  o talk so. ts  s. At lengtion suc presented itself as more expedient than any answer.

    `You  seen trouble  c; `ss dreadful. I mig alone paying for her schooling, for shes worse nor ever.

    `Its no more t Ive allays said, follo Im not. Ive said over and over again - years ago Ive said - quot;Mark my  co no good: t a bit of our family in ; And as for  . Id my reasons o.

    `Come, come, said Mr Glegg, `lets e no more time in talking - lets go to business. tom no the pen and ink...

    all dark figure he window.

    `ulliver. `t  out to open the door, Maggie eagerly following her.

    `ts fortunate, said Mrs Glegg. `So t o to be bougs but rigs her.

    Mrs Moss oo mucation to resist Mrs tullivers movement as so tomatically,  reflecting t it ake  painful moment of arrival. tall, rast to ters as sered in  looking as if tily  entire absence of self-consciousness  trouble. Maggie o o notice no one else except tom, raigo and took by the hand.

    `O my dear c out, `youve no call to t to you, for Im one o take all and give nother?

    `Mr turnbull t better, said Maggie. `Sit do Gritty. Dont fret.

    `O my s corn i to lead o t still not seeming to notice t. `eve ts it, and you all  it, poor t  be sold up to pay it, and t of em, and ttle un of all cant speak plain. And I feel as if I  Im sure Id no t as my brother...

    terrupted by a rising sob.

    `tulliver, ation at  in the dark.

    ` madness, to be sure! said Mrs Glegg. `A man  to lend   security, Ill be bound, if truth was known.

    Mrs Gleggs voice ed Mrs Mosss attention, and, looking up, she said,

    `Yes, ty: my e for it. ere not t sort o people, neito paying back times got a bit better.

    `ell, but noly, ` your  ud be a little fortin, like, for t tullivers being made a bankrupt. Your  stock: it is but rig seems to me - not but w Im sorry for you, Mrs Moss.

    `O sir, you dont kno o stock, and , and  but o do  ud be any good... but ttle uns...

    `Dont cry so, aunt - dont fret, w hold of Mrs Mosss hand.

    `Did Mr tulliver, let you  once? said Mrs tulliver, still lost in tion of t her knowledge.

    `No, at to restrain ears. `t er my bad illness, four years ago, as everyt e made t  cumber all my life.

    `Yes, Mrs Moss, said Mrs Glegg, y for my sister.

    `I set off in t as soon as ever I   Mrs tulliver. `I said a o let me kno isnt as Im t ourselves and not my brot  it. And my o do t t Mr Glegg, `and  s all my brot to trust to. eve been used to trouble, and dont look for mucs only t o my poor cwo.

    `o be t on, Mrs Moss, said Mr Glegg, `and its rigo ullivers made a bankrupt, and  a note-of-o pay it: t.

    `O dear, O dear! said Mrs tulliver, tcy, and not of Mrs Mosss concern in it. Poor Mrs Moss ened in trembling submission,  tom to see if anding trouble, and caring about poor aunt Moss. tom ful able-cloth.

    `And if  made bankrupt, continued Mr Glegg, `as I said before, ttle fortin for  kno  goes  my opinion is, looking at it one ll be rigo raise t it to pay it. You  truth.

    `Uncle, said tom, looking up suddenly from ative vieable-clot t o pay t  my fato pay it, ?

    Mr Glegg looked surprised for a moment or tom; but troyed te you kno look for te.  makes you t ud be against his will?

    `om, colouring, but trying to speak firmly in spite of a boyisremor, `I remember quite  to sco Mr Stelling, my fato me one nigting by togethe room...

    tom ated a little, and t on,

    `o me about Maggie, and to my sister, t my  Moss money, but I sressing o pay it: Id rat: my c not mind being t. And no able to speak for  like anyto be done contrary to w o me.

    `ell, but to enter into toms  once sual abroying securities or alienating anytant enougo make an appreciable difference in a mans property, `e, you knoo guard against w may ...

    `Mr Glegg, interrupted  youre saying. Youre putting yourself very forrard in ot say it .

    `ts suc, o express , `making ae: I s table on you for it.

    `ell but, said Mrs tulliver, `if tes  money,  ao meddle  Moss, tom, if you ts well.

    Mrs tulliver  studied tion of excraining er original ideas on t.

    `Poo understand t safe for Mr and Mrs Moss, but destroying te.

    `to do it, uncle, said tom, earnestly. `If my fat get   I could  me to remember  y.

    Even Mrs Glegg could not oms  tainly speaking in ion of money. Maggie ed aking toms her a choked voice,

    `Youll never be ted for your fat, ty. ell do as  an  father.

    `ell, said Mr Glegg, ing after toms ors, supposing your fat - Ive been t, for Ive been a creditor myself, and seen no end o cing - for if  to give your aunt t into ts te o be t muc to be considered, young man, Mr Glegg added, looking admonis tom, `aking one mans dinner ao make anot. You dont understand t, I doubt?

    `Yes, I do, said tom, decidedly. `I knoo one man Ive no rigo give it to anot if my fato give my aunt t,  to do it.

    `ell done, young man! I didnt t pere. Let us go and see if  in t.

    `Its in my fat us go too, aunt Gritty, whispered Maggie.

 CHAPTER 4

    A Vanishing Gleam

    MR tULLIVER, even bets of spasmodic rigidity ervals ever since ic a condition t ts and entrances into  felt to be of great importance. ill,  Maggie told  Moss s not expect o take any notice of tered very quietly, and Mrs Moss took  near t in   causing any change in his face.

    Mr Glegg and tom ered, treading softly, and ing t from tom  from  - e t of Mr tullivers bed - and propping t much noise.

    `tin box,  a small te in t it out, tom; but Ill just lift up t there is under em.

    Mr Glegg ed out ts and unately dratle, he house.

    Per sound more t of trong vibration t produced tantaneous effect on trate man, and for time completely sruction of paralysis. t o  o visit it. All long-knos, even a mere ening or a particular door latc of recognised voice to us - a voice t  o touc ed up and looked at t, ts in Mr Gleggs om in box,  consciousness and recognition.

    ` are you going to do one of sioning ed. `Come om.  do you do, going to my c?

    tom obeyed, rembling: it  time  instead of saying anyto inued to look inctness of suspicion at Mr Glegg and the deeds.

    `s been  are you meddling  you tell me ly, as Mr Glegg advanced to t of the bed before speaking.

    `No, no, friend tulliver, said Mr Glegg, in a sootone. `Nobodys getting . e only came to look and see . Youve been ill, you knoer t. But lets o attend to everything yourself.

    Mr tulliver looked round atively - at tom, at Mr Glegg and at Maggie; t some one ed by  turned ser.

    `Ety! ionate tone in o speak to , youre to leave the children?

    `O, brotoo impulsive to be prudent, `Im to see you yourself again - I t youd never know us any more.

    `, roke? said Mr tulliver, anxiously, looking at Mr Glegg.

    `A fall from your  - ts all, I t youll soon get over it, lets hope.

    Mr tulliver fixed  for tes. A ne, and said in a loone, `You got tter, then, my wench?

    `Yes, fat. S as if o o show him how she had always loved him could be fulfilled.

    `  animal mig.

    `Sairs s, fatch her?

    `Ay, ay: poor Bessy! and urned toom as Maggie left the room.

    `Youll o take care of em botom. Youll be badly off, I doubt. But you must see and pay everybody. And mind - ty pound o Lukes as I put into t me a bit at a time and  noto s. You must pay  thing.

    Uncle Glegg involuntarily s tom said firmly,

    `Yes, fat you a note from my uncle Moss for to look for t.  do you  it, father?

    `A o t my lad, said Mr tulliver. `I allays meant to be easy about t money, because o your aunt. You mustnt mind losing t pay it - and its like enoug. tes in t box, mind! I allays meant to be good to you, Gritty, said Mr tulliver, turning to er, `but, you knoed me when you would have Moss.

    At t Maggie re-entered ated by t e himself again.

    `ell, Bessy,  forgive me if youre ed to be. But its t o ts none o mine, s t o raskills! tom - you mind t t. If you dont, youre a good-for-not   to take care o raskills.

    Mr tulliver ting excited, and an alarming flused to say somet ed by Mr tullivers speaking again to  to pay everyt leave you your furniture; and your sistersll do sometomll gro o be I dont knotle  its a poor tale...

    tive effect of trong vibration

    struck all present as if it  only from its contrast eness of t because o ty t  ulliver, deat to be a leap: it o be a long descent under thickening shadows.

    Mr turnbull  for, but oration, temporary,  lesion to prevent ultimate recovery.

    Among t ed t up prominent ideas, and o forgetfulness again ion unlearned.

    But tom s - t e must be destroyed, and t Lukes money must be paid, if in no ot of s, you perceive, on ruction, or tions of a matical demonstration.

 CHAPTER 5

    tom Applies o ter

    t day, at ten oclock, tom  Oggs, to see o come  nig om   person to ask for advice about getting some employment.  ions of uncle Glegg; and  ion. It o end in rain - one of take refuge in tom ion as ive  ure; and e dutifulness to une t of a o la indication of toms cer, t t s ougo do somet not resentment against tenderness and generosity. tom t led o expect  present itself to  to be demanded. ifully to t taken care of tom saice in severity - and all t  just severity. It  tage in life by  of prudence, but  going to complain and to find fault  make everyto o give . Poor tom   o take refuge in under t of t of roubles. At sixteen, t rongest affinity for fact cannot escape illusion and self-flattery and tom, in sketcure s, tions of   to save money sloire on a moderate fortune like   a situation in some great .  ting , but for tom  applying to  sure, ed project, but  o Guest amp; Co. t to offer  om resolved  olerable to ter, and make every one say t er. e of strong purpose and strong desire, did not see es.

    By time one bridge over tering St Oggs,   to any smarter, newer place, and he could keep as many horses and dogs as he liked.

    alking along treet ep at t in artled by some one w ice, and wo him in a rough, familiar voice,

    `er tom,   Oggs - one of omers.

    tom disliked being spoken to just t ill very ill, thank you.

    `Ay, its been a sore c it? - t turning out against ured.

    tom reddened and passed on:  it like t polite and delicate reference to ion.

    `ts tullivers son, said to a grocer standing on t door-step.

    `A I kneer raigs  up to?

    `Oo turn up  omers and be a fine gentleman - not muchink.

    tom, roused from ure to a t, made all ter e to reac amp; Co. o find  t told empt for  to be found in River Street on a thursday morning.

    At tom ted into te room er sending in ing accounts, but om entered and, putting out om - notter at her?

    `Mucom, feeling nervous. `But I  to speak to you, please, y.

    `Sit do doo s, in om began to  in till ttle tendency to monotonous procedure of t ing to ticking of a time-piece. ting ric at last took a pen and e somet the end.

    `Youll just step up to torrys noe in toms ears.

    `ell, tom, said Mr Deane, ial person a little in aking out s ts t  tom o appeal to ing the sale.

    `I roubling you, uncle, said tom, colouring, but speaking in a tone , `but I t you  person to advise me o do.

    `A tom tention. `Let us hear.

    `I  to get a situation, uncle, so t I may earn some money, said tom, ion.

    `A situation? said Mr Deane, and took e justice to eacril. tom t snuff-taking a most provoking .

    ` me see, hrew himself backward again.

    `Sixteen - I mean, I am going in seventeen, said tom, iced how much beard he had.

    `Let me see - your fation of making you an engineer, I think?

    `But I dont t any money at t for a long while, could I?

    `ts true: but people dont get muc anyteen. Youve ty s, eand book-keeping?

    `No, said tom, rateringly. `I ions. But Mr Stelling says I e a good s my ing, added tom, laying on table a copy of t erday.

    `As good, ts good. But, you see, t  get you a better place ts. And a copying clerks a cicle. But w  schen?

    Mr Deane  occupied ion, and ion of  forward in expensive schools.

    `e learned Latin, said tom, pausing a little beto assist in; and t year I did tin and one in Englisory; and Euclid; and I began Algebra, but I felt it off again; and o  of, Englisry, and oric, t half.

    Mr Deane tapped  in tion of many estimable persons ed of o speak raserial in ion  if it  of it. About Latin  t in case of anot o put a tax upon Latin as luxury muc telling at all on tment. But, for ral. On t of acquirements gave  of repulsion toom.

    `ell,  last, in ratone, `youve  t be pretty strong in em.  you better take up some line wheyll come in handy?

    tom coloured and burst out, h new energy,

    `Id rat  of t sort, uncle. I dont like Latin and t kno as us kno: besides, I   to be t sort of person. I so enter into some business er t credit for o keep my moter.

    `Aleman, said Mr Deane,  tendency to repress youtout and successful men of fifty find one of t duties, `ts sooner said than done.

    `But didnt you get on in t om, a little irritated t Mr Deane did not enter more rapidly into  you rise from one place to anoties and good conduct?

    `Ay, ay, sir, said Mr Deane, spreading tle, and entering  readiness into a retrospect of  Ill tell you  on: it  by getting astride a stick and t urn into a  on it long enoug my eyes and ears open, sir, and I  too fond of my oers interest my o on in t e of five  mig more sco begin y boy but I saty soon t I couldnt get on far  mastering accounts, and I learned em beto te a good c all sorts of reckoning by t it all by  out of my oen out of my oo ture of all to do  about my urned it over in my ended to be, but Ive t of a t t of, and its made a fine difference in our returns. And t an article s our y of it. If I got places, sir, it  for em. If you  to slip into a round  make a ball of yourself - ts w is.

    Mr Deane tapped  and ten rospective survey ener.  distinctly a   wine before him.

    `ell, uncle, said tom,  complaint in one, `ts  I get on in the same way?

    `In tom  deliberation. `tions to t, Master tom. t depends on  of article you are to begin  into t mill. But Ill tell you  is. Your poor fat to ion. It  my business, and I didnt interfere: but it is as I t it s all very ep,  sign cin inside  of stuffing.

    `But uncle, said tom earnestly, `I dont see ing on in business: I s it all - it makes no difference to me. I o do my lessons at sc I al to me after care about them.

    `Ay, ay, ts all very  it doesnt alter o say. Your Latin and rigmarole may soon dry off you, but youll be but a bare stick, after t. Besides its  of you. And o begin  so muco begin at a lo me tell you, if you mean to get on in life. Its no use forgetting tion your fat give yourself a new un.

    tom bit  as if tears hem.

    `You  me to o a situation, Mr Deane  on, ` to find : Im o do somet you youngsters noo begin ion of running afoot, before you get on  remember een, trained to noticular. t, like so many pebbles made to fit in noiced to some business - a cs and druggists, perin mig there...

    tom o speak, but Mr Deane put up his hand and said--

    `Stop!  Ive got to say. You dont  to be a prentice - I kno to make more e - and you dont  to stand beer. But if youre a copying clerk youll o stand beare at your ink and paper all day: t muclook t be muc t t made of pen, ink and paper, and if youre to get on in t kno co  you  like t, Ill be bound: youd o stand cold and  and be s by rougoo fine a gentleman for t.

    Mr Deane paused and looked  tom,  some inruggle before he could reply.

    `I   for me in t up  was disagreeable.

    `ts  out. But you must remember, it isnt only laying  go on pulling. Its take you lads make t  not, to t a better start in tick yourselves in a place lemen. t  tarted, young man:  smelt of tar, and I  afraid of s table  firms in St Oggs.

    Uncle Deane tapped o expand a little under coat and gold che chair.

    `Is t liberty t you kno I so set to  once, said tom,  tremor in his voice.

    `Stop a bit, stop a bit: nt be in too great a  bear in mind, if I put you in a place youre a bit young for, because you o be my nepter reason, you kno remains to be seen whing.

    `I , uncle, said tom, , as all boys are at tatement of t trut people feel no ground for trusting t my o too muc.

    `ell done, tom, s t spirit, and I never refuse to o do tice. ty Ive got my eye on no young man -  some pit time - a first-rate calculator - can tell you tents of anytime, and put me up to a ne for S young fellow.

    `Id better set about learning book-keeping,  I, uncle? said tom, anxious to prove o exert himself.

    `Yes, yes, you cant do amiss t... aom, to be said just no go to business again. Goodby. Remember me to your mother.

    Mr Deane put out om  courage to ask anotion, especially in t out again into to call at  time  out again, t  see very far before  going along River Street again, artled ing side of a se Mill in large letters on a o stare at  alogue of to take place t   of town.

    Poor tom formed no visions of tant future as  t t o once t  om ain of as of t. Apparently om tulliver, o be  in t time  a sinking of  under t  and could do very little.  enviable young man, t could tell tents of time, and make suggestions about Sirely satisfied e of ration and construing nunc illas promite vires, as `no no a disadvantage, because  be a ed  S on. It ed horse and a new saddle.

    to St Oggs, ant future before  empting stretc of flinty s t soon be passed. But noones: t of sretco narrowness.

    ` did my uncle Deane say, tom? said Maggie, putting oms as cuation?

    `No,  say t.  quite promise me anyto t uation. Im too young.

    `But didnt om?

    `Kindly? Poos talking about t? I  care about  a situation. But its suc scin and t a bit of good to me - and no set about learning book-keeping and calculation and to make out Im good for nothing.

    toms moutcter expression as  the fire.

    `O y  Dominie Sampson, said Maggie, augry and after talian metram, I could teacom.

    `You teacs alone you take, said tom.

    `Dear tom! I ting   sleeve.

    `But its alom, tle froo be justifiably severe. `Youre alting yourself up above me and every one else. And Ive ed to tell you about it several times. You oug to o my uncles and aunts - you s to me to take care of my mot put yourself forter t youre almost aler than you can.

    Poor tom!  come from being lectured and made to feel y: tion of rong, self-asserting nature must take place somely s. Maggies cing resentment and affection and a certain aion of toms firmer and more effective cer. S ansely; very angry o  t last,

    `You often ted, tom,  all in t  mean to put myself above you - I knoer terday. But you are alom.

    it ment was rising again.

    `No, Im not om, o you; and so I sake care of you. But you must mind w I say.

    t  of tears,  come, mig ill sairs. tter tears: everybody in to Maggie: ts. In books tender, and deligo do t made one  s. tside t a : it seemed to be a o t pretend to love and t did not belong to t,  poverty and t-cutting c of early youts, and ly of sucure despair, as if our vision of ture lig.

    Maggie in o tre of ure full of eager, passionate longings for all t iful and glad: ty for all knoraining after dreamy music t died a come near to  ogeterious life and give .

    No  bet painful collisions come of it. A girl of no startling appearance, and akes e of, may still -seed does, ering, violent manner.

 CHAPTER 6

    tending to Refute t t of a Pocket-Knife

    IN t dark time of December ture lasted beyond tulliver, o manifest an irritability o  effect ty and insensibility,  tical  to urnbull  it o let o move o Lukes cottage, a plan ulliver, t er o  t imprisoned in t ccrate figure on trembling lest to tinate, painful repetition. But it  last - t time of importunate certainty and eye-straining suspense. t as metallic as t follo ramping of footsteps on t. Mrs tullivers blond face seemed aged ten years by t ty e terrible  tering at t t first one to be identified as eful publicity of to sit and make no sign of tation. Sucreaks of  once looked as if t ted, bad-tempered  came to t on y, o scrub and sed by a continual lotering against `folks as came to buy up ot of `scrazing tops of maables over o - suffer a e of tissue tion. S scrubbing indiscriminately, for t of trocious kind made by people o fetc s on bringing t `pipe-smoking pig t, to suc comfort as could be given to it by cleanliness and ticles of furniture bougress and tea in it t nigermined.

    It eatime,  Master tom ed. ted c moments, by t fire and candleligom  even an indefinite sense of any acquaintance  but active figure, per looked at  in a disc of freckles, and pulled some curly red locks rong intention of respect. A loain s of dirt on t of tume, as of tables prepared for ing upon, suggested a calling t o do s, but t oms memory.

    `Sarvant, Mr tom, said o break t,  on, as tom continued to look at  Id like to talk to you by yourself a bit, please.

    `tom, said Kezia, o leaving tcoasting.

    `Come tom, o Guest amp; Co.s ion ran continually to particular spot, and uncle Deane migime be sending for o say t tuation at liberty.

    t fire in t t sless floor and table - no, not table: table in a corner, . It range bareness t tom felt first, before  of looking again at t up by tole a ioning glance at irely strange voice said--

    ` remember Bob, t knife, Mr tom?

    t knife aken out in t and t blade opened by ible demonstration.

    `! Bob Jakin? said tom - not , for  a little as early intimacy symbolised by t-knife, and  at all sure t Bobs motives for recalling it irely admirable.

    `Ay, ay, Bob Jakin - if Jakin it must be, cause t arter t day as I plumped rig I got tig, an a scratter it tlis I   in, cause t be cin me an givin me anotid, for t sucry - its got used to my   by my o  Bill Faerrier pup istid o dro, and I o jaw  me.

    Bob spoke reble volubility, and got tcionate rub on his sleeve when he had finished.

    `ell, Bob, said tom,  air of patronage, to be as friendly as  of ance  ter ting quarrel, `is thing I can do for you?

    `om, ansing up urning it to ,  rouble an folks say as ter, as I used to frig for fun urnip, as t up  o ax you to gi me anots enoug ax : an a good turns om, an you tle c  me again. t lors! you get tried o leat you  o s. In seen cand starin at a bougill t out, afore tail  a leaf. Its poor  som, an I could trusten you for droppin doick in time at a runninrot, or a stoat, or t, he bushes.

    Bob  a dirty canvas bag, and  entered ted a look of surprise and curiosity at . But t moment tered room came upon Maggie  overpo of Bobs presence. ely glanced from o t t table her books.

    `O tom, s out, clasping  my uncle Glegg said   us?

    `I suppose so, said tom,  of desperate indifference. ` so little furniture?

    `O but, tom, said Maggie, ears, as so table to see tle paints, and t picture of Pilgrim le on, looking just like a turtle - O dear! Maggie  on, urned over t  he beginning!

    Maggie turned aable and to a cears ready to roll doo t  gaze of an intelligent dumb animal, ions more perfect than his comprehension.

    `ell, Bob, said tom, feeling t t of t came to see me because rouble? t ured of you.

    `Ill tell you  is, Master tom, said Bob, beginning to unt s tin my livin - if it  in torrys mill. But a fortnit ago Id a rare bit o luck - I allays t I rap but c t a trap, it orrys mill, an I doused it, else it ud  t, an ten suvreigns -  ed c I kno afore - but ts en suvreigns, an t  neable. `An le o brot sort o life I sake to - for trades Id t on, for as for tired out , for it pulls t till tterlings. An I t first Id s an dogs an be a rotketc as I s knoo ttom o rotketc ant till at last I settled Id be a packman, for test tongue, as is no use, neits nor barges. An I s try far an ongue, an get my dinner  at t ud be a lovely life!

    Bob paused, and t decision, as if resolutely turning  paradisaic picture--

    `But I dont mind about it, not a co buy my mot a blue plus an a sealskin cap - for if I meant to be a packman, Id do it respectable. But I dont mind about it - not a c turnup, an I so take tom, and set yoursen up s true as ters broke. t go fur enoug theyll help.

    tom ouco forget his pride and suspicion.

    `Youre a very kind fellotle, diffident tremor in ain co toms pride and severity, `and I s forget you again, t kno I cant take taking your little fortune from you, and t do me mucher.

    `ouldnt tom? said Bob regretfully. `No say so cause you t em. I arent a poor cs a good pennorts not bread an er it runs to fat: an Im suc you arent quite so lucky Mr tom - ter isnt, any take a slice o my luck, an no  i t umbled out o one o terned Dutcter on it, Mr tom, for old quinetance sake - else I shink you bear me a grudge.

    Bob pus before tom could speak, Maggie, clasping ently at Bob, said,

    `O, Im sorry, Bob - I never t you he world!

    Bob  been a of penitence, but  t evening, hey made him feel nohow.

    `No, indeed, Bob, I cant take tom, `but dont t  to take anyt to   really - if I o take t me sead.

    tom put out  sloo place .

    `Let me put t your pack, Bob.

    `Its like as if Id come out o make-believe, o purpose to sent as Maggie gave aking em back i t of a Do, you kno it isnt t sort o Do: its ony o let , ts all.

    `No you be up to any tricks Bob, said tom, `else youll get transported some day.

    `No, no; not me Master tom, said Bob, es. If I  to take a fool in no any , lors! o buy you and Miss summat, ony for a token - just to matc knife.

    ely ted up om pusily; but I cant take it. And Maggie, taking it beto Bob, and said more persuasively,

    `Not no perime. If ever tom or my fats  you can give,  you kno om? ts o  o - isnt it, Bob?

    `Yes, Miss, and tantly taking ts er tom, and t take the money.

    Kezias entrance, o inquire if s bring in tea no o get o a brick, was a seasonable cened ing bow.

 CHAPTER 7

    akes to Stratagem

    tulliver s least to tronger and stronger symptoms of a gradual return to ion: tic obstruction tle by little, losing its tenacity, and t ful struggles, like a living creature making its  sno t slides and slides again, and ss up time o tc ful distant  count of ts  it -approacs come too quickly. ulliver os moment of most palpable caxing-masters able gunsmitiously preparing t t, duly pointed by a brave arm, urs, filing of bills in C or bomb-s can never  a solitary mark but must fall tering. So deeply in is it in t men o suffer for eacably diffusive is  even justice makes its victims, and ribution t does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.

    By t advertising tullivers farming and otock to be folloer-dinner  time, fancied ill in t first stage of unes en in alked in a feeble, disjointed manner, of plans

    least save Mr tulliver from leaving t and seeking an entirely strange life. For uncle Deane o interest age of t , ion for Guest and Co. to buy Dorlcote Mill and carry on t be increased by tion of steam poill Mr Deane  tter: t t akem gage on t put in into o bid for tate, and furto outbid tious firm of Guest and Co. imental grounds. Mr Deane o tell Mrs tulliver someto t effect, o inspect t `if Guest and Co.  it, Mr tullivers fate Mill long before t firm  of. Mr Deane, in reply, doubted ion betments. As for uncle Glegg, te beyond ion: tured man felt sincere pity for tulliver family, but  mortgages and  o ives: but  tulliver scoats y, and t ulliver a pound of tea no ea and see   black.

    Still, it  Mr Deane oullivers. One day  Lucy, le blond angel-self against Maggies darker cears. ters keep up a tender spot in t of many a respectable partner in a respectable firm, and perying questions about o make uncle Deane more prompt in finding tom a temporary place in tting ting evening lessons in book-keeping and calculation.

    t migtle, if t come at time t  be a bankrupt, after all: - at least, tors must be asked to take less to toms unteccy.  not only be said to  y, but to  carried t obloquy to toms mind. For s isfied, t ts, ion: `not more ten or tone, tigom like a scalding liquid, leaving a continual smart.

    of someto keep up s a little in t neransported from ted ennui of study- Mr Stellings, and tle-building in a `last  sco ts at  step toting on in ty, noisy affair, and implied going  ones tea in order to stay in St Oggs and rongly of bad tobacco. toms young pink and   doo tle cross if o him.

    But all tulliver  most to be dreaded, and prevent akem from entertaining truly respectable and amiable entous anomaly, taking to reflection and inventing combinations by o : t could tering. Mrs tulliver, seeing t everyto t soo passive in life, and t, if so business, and taken a strong resolution no er for  appeared,  of going to speak to akem on t, Mrs tulliver reflected, it est met end. It ulliver to go - even if o la akem and abusing  ten years; akem o e against  Mrs tulliver o t o bring o trouble, so t oo. to be sure, akem  t s to please t lent Mr tulliver to please t likely to put Mr tulliver torney mig? - , and at time Mrs tulliver  marriage, tin spencer, and  yet any ts of Mr tulliver, sainly to of all possibility t ertain anyt good  s, ed to go to la present disposed to take Mr akems vies rat, if t attorney saable matron like o give  en to ations? For s tter clearly before . And o spite   likely enoug s Squire Darleig ten and often danced ten.

    Mrs tulliver  a  to Mr Deane and Mr Glegg, t s mind going to speak to akem  akem alone, in tone of men o give a candid attention to a more definite exposition of . Still less dared sion to tom and Maggie, for `t everytom, s as muc against akem as  tration of t naturally gave Mrs tulliver an unusual poermination, and a day or to be  time to be lost s ratagem. tion - a large stock of pickles and ketculliver possessed and  tervieo St Oggs t morning: and  s let t present -  like o go about just yet - s at t in radicting  pickles s ined from tle girl, t ogetil surned to, he offices of Mr akem.

    t gentleman  yet come to ulliver sit doe room and  for  long to  before tual attorney entered, knitting  tout blond ially: - a tallis iron-grey  a rascal and as crafty, bitter an enemy of  y in general and of Mr tulliver in particular, as ed to be in t eidolon or portrait of o exist in the millers mind.

    It is clear t to interpret any c t grazed tempt on o entanglements in tion o y, required tive diabolical agency to explain t is still possible to believe t ttorney  more guilty toy is guilty touring too near it, is cauged into unexpected sausages.

    But it is really impossible to decide tion by a glance at s of tenance are like ot alo read  a key. On an a priori vie more rascality tiff s collar, too, along   ory meaning ained.

    `Mrs tulliver, I think? said Mr akem.

    `Yes, sir, Miss Elizabeth Dodson as was.

    `Pray be seated. You h me?

    `ell, sir, yes, said Mrs tulliver, beginning to feel alarmed at ing t s settled  in coat pockets and looked at her in silence.

    `I  last, `I  a-t, and t in, and t broug  to tly, for te aers. And as for going to la to be ans o my oo one  abuse you as ot I niver  of me.

    Mrs tulliver stle and looked at t handkerchief.

    `Ive no doubt of ulliver, said Mr akem, eness. `But you ion to ask me?

    `ell, sir, yes. But ts o myself - Ive said youd ral feeling; and as for my  been  a-defending  about tion - not but

    tter as said youd t I cant believe but w youll beleman.

    ` does all tulliver? said Mr akem, rat do you  to ask me?

    `ulliver, starting a little, and speaking more  to buy t so mucter, only my  your .

    Somet flasold you I meant to buy it?

    `s none o my inventing and I s of it, for my  to kno to say as la em into t ud be to do contrairy to t.

    `A t did say so? said akem, opening ,  of an almost inaudible wle.

    `  and Co. ud buy t Mr tulliver  for em, if you didnt bid for it and raise t ud be suco stay , t fond o t,  to do

    Dodson to marry one; but I  into it blindfold, t I did, erigation and everything.

    ` - Guest and Co. heir own hands, I suppose, and pay your husband wages?

    `O dear, sir, its o tulliver, a little tear making its  it ud look more like o be, to stay at to go any, my  be struck  better again as ting now.

    `ell, but if I bougo act as my manager in then? said Mr akem.

    `O sir, I doubt  to do it, not if tood still to beg and pray of o s so as never  t ts eigold him he was wrong...

    ` out Mr akem, forgetting himself.

    `O dear, sir! said Mrs tulliver, frig a result so different from t radict you, but its like enoug a many to talk about. And you  like to o die; and ts allays unlucky o tell you as I remember your  erday - Mrs akem , I kno - and my boy, as t nicer, raiter boy noo sch your son...

    Mr akem rose, opened to one of his clerks.

    `You must excuse me for interrupting you, Mrs tulliver, I  must be attended to; and I to be said.

    `But if you  in mind, sir, said Mrs tulliver, rising, `and not run against me and my c denying Mr tullivers been in t s been giving to ot -  y - and I go and look at to stand.

    `Yes, yes, Ill bear it in mind, said Mr akem ily, looking tohe open door.

    `And if youd please not to say as Ive been to speak to you, for my son ud be very angry rouble enoug being scolded by my children.

    Poor Mrs tullivers voice trembled a little, and so ttorneys `good morning, but curtsied and  in silence.

    ` t Dorlcote Mill is to be sold? o hey were alone.

    `Next Friday is t six oclock.

    `O run to insioneer - and see if  o come up.

    Altered  morning, ention of purce Mill, ulliver ed to ermining motives, and al glance  being rasives run in fixed tracks, and to reconcile conflicting aims.

    to suppose t akem  of inveterate red toulliver, t tulliver os o t indignant roac  good eating: it could only be ertain a strong personal animosity. If Mr tulliver ed ttorney, akem  inction of being a special object of vindictiveness. But  t dinner-table, ttorneys clients  a o o be present, some jocose cattle-feeder, stimulated by opportunity and brandy, made a t at o old ladies  sang-froid, and knee  ty of substantial men t ly contented  t `akem  is to say, a man ones t ice. A man  tofton, and decidedly t stock of port  Oggs, o feel  sure t even  Mr tulliver , mig, under opposite circumstances, eness in trut `akem  mankind is not disposed to look narroo t of great victors  side. tulliver, truction to akem: on trary ed several times - a -tempered fello te t unsuccessful plaintiff - t pitiable, furious bull entangled in t?

    Still, among to , moralists  of being too fond of te for topping per meditative red toor ive roric against Yelloe life: but  not be sorry, if launity favoured, to kick t Blue editor to a deeper se colour. Prosperous men take a little vengeance noake a diversion, o business; and suc in life, running t infliction, blocking t men out of places, and blackening cers in unpremeditated talk. Still more, to see people o us, reduced in life and ed  any special efforts of ours is apt to tering influence: Providence, or some ot appears, aken task of retribution for us; and really, by an agreeable constitution of t prosper.

    akem   tic vindictiveness toary miller, and noulliver  tion into  presented itself to o do t ulliver t deadly mortification, and a pleasure of a complex kind, not made up of crude malice but mingling  tion. to see an enemy ed gives a certain contentment, but t satisfaction of seeing ed by your benevolent action of concession on  is a sort of revenge ue, and akem   an intention of keeping t scale respectably filled. ting an old enemy of o one of t Oggs almso tion; and unity of providing for anot. Suceness to prosperity, and contribute elements of agreeable consciousness t are not dreamed of by t s-siged vindictiveness, s o self in direct injury. And tulliver ongue field by a sense of obligation, ter servant tuation. tulliver o be a man of proud y, and akem oo acute not to believe in tence of y. o observing individuals, not to judging of to maxims, and no one kneter t all men  like ended to overlook tty closely: ical rural matters. But te Mill, quite apart form any benevolent vengeance on t al investment; besides, Guest amp; Co. o bid for it. Mr Guest and Mr akem erms, and ttorney liked to predominate over a stle too loud in toalk. For akem  a mere man of business:  fello Oggs, cted amusingly over  tle amateur farming, and ainly been an excellent  c t under t of mural monuments erected to t men  o be more tender to  men o t s t Mr akem  ot toage, and provided for t, indeed, tive to te Mill. ulliver alking, it o tances of t to come furnisable position for a certain favourite lad o bring on in the world.

    tal conditions on o act persuasively, and  ion from t p fly-fis so as to make it alluring in t quarter for  of a due acquaintance ivity of fishes.

 CHAPTER 8

    Daylighe reck

    It y January day on  came doairs: t sun on tnut bouge iently declare t  everye, as if it y places and ts once  it  yesterday inually implied in alk, and ttempts to convey to  many  forgetfulness, t even Mr turnbull o despair of preparing o meet ts by previous kno could only be imparted gradually by ne by mere  by tion to come doairs ulliver said tom must not go to St Oggs at t  and see airs: and tom complied, tense ined t fe and Co.  bougo akem, ulliver, in case of ion ing. Uncles and aunts  unanimously of opinion t suc not to be rejected ullivers mind, irely unreasonable and cransferring to indignation and red  ion of it in going to lay for Mr tulliver to provide for er  any assistance from ions, and  t too evident descent into pauperism o respectable people to meet tulliver, Mrs Glegg considered, must be made to feel,   ime past `to t friends  to look to. Mr Glegg and Mr Deane ern in t t tulliver -tempered crotcs, and ougo put t of tion  tter -  tulliver. tom ested against entertaining tion:  like o be under akem;  it ed; but ress ter impossibility of ever `turning Mr tulliver round about akem or getting o o go and live in a pigsty on purpose to spite akem o sucrange medium of unaccountable sorro  Maggie began to suspect s e going. `tom, s of toget try to make fatand a little of   get my mot cchen.

    Kezia o task. ention of staying till ter could get about again, `rong ress, scolding  all day  cogetime of trouble urnalian time to Kezia; sters icular occasion to be fetco kno s it ulliver to put on  and get a breat needful piece of ulliver  submissively doairs: to be ordered about by a servant  remnant of ies - s to scold her.

    Mr tulliver ing in tle after tigue of dressing, and Maggie and tom ed near ered to ask if er doairs.

    `Ay, ay, Luke, stop a bit, sit doulliver, pointing ick to gaze en ended t gazing about after its nurse. And Luke ant nigcers bed.

    `er now, eulliver. `Dix  been choking you up again, eh?

    `No, sir, its all right.

    `Ay, I t not:  be in a  t again, noo settle  o Riley yesterday... I said...

    Mr tulliver leaned foring riving after vanisruggling against a doze. Maggie looked at tom in mute distress - t, self on om  ready to rus impatience of painful emotion h and maiden, man and woman.

    `Fat you remember t Mr Riley is dead?

    `Dead? said Mr tulliver, srange, examining glance.

    `Yes, o pay money for  ers badly off - one of teac Miss Firnisss wo school, you know...

    `Afully, still looking in  as soon as tom began to speak urned to look at  tual faces: t ttle  past.

    `Its a long om. `I remember your talking about it t to sc Mr Stellings. Ive been at sc you remember?

    Mr tulliver tward glance, under a rused ernal impressions.

    `Ay, ay, er a minute or termined my son sion: Id none myself, and Ive felt t. And  no otin: ts o get tter of me again...

    t of akem roused neions, and after a moments pause o look at t o feel in . turned to tom, and said in  Gores letter?

    It  en asked for it before.

    `You knoter, fatom, as  to him.

    `to be sure I do, said Mr tulliver, rat o t? If Furley cant take to ty, somebody else can: ty o people in t its  being ell em to get t doo St Oggs well enouging me.

    `No, dear fat out, entreatingly, `its a very long  many hing is changed.

    Mr tulliver looked at ternately artled gaze: t mucen transiently arrested  it came upon ire novelty.

    `Yes, fatom, in anso t trouble your mind about business until you are quite tled about t for t - about ts.

    `s settled ther, angrily.

    `Dont you take on too muc it, sir, said Luke. `Youd s o Master tom - I said, youd ha paid iverybody, if you could.

    Good Luke felt, after tented  in servitude, t sense of natural fitness in rank ragedy to o say somet om, o decline t of y pounds out of t ready to ongue. t to lay t painful ers bewildered mind.

    `Paid everybody?  agitation, ing up. `... ?

    `O fat t terrible ed t. `Bear it hem all - he says he will, when hes a man.

    S o tremble - rembled too, as er a fes,

    `Ay, my little wenc I swice oer.

    `But pero see my pay everybody, fatom, speaking  effort.

    `Aulliver, s  mine. t een - its an up for you - but you mustnt t at your fatoo many for ion - tll start you.

    Somet   en preceded a recurrence of paralysis, remulous. tom said notill struggling against ion to rus a minute or t  seem to be wandering again.

    `o know w had happened.

    `Everyt  kno t, said tom, anxious to ion leading to t t akem he purchaser.

    `You must not be surprised to see tairs, fat t gone.

    `Let us go - ulliver, leaning on ick, and stretc owards Luke.

    `Ay, sir, said Luke, as o er, `youll make up your mind tot a bit better ot. ts  ness o breat no again it sore  come on.

    Maggie ran on before to see t all urned able to make an easy ing  to see er and look round for t time. tom advanced before , and stood beside Maggie on toms suffered t unmixed pain, for Maggie, ibility, yet felt as if to floo e nature. No true boy feels t: ual appeals to y for evils over w.

    Mr tulliver paused just inside ting on Luke, and looking round  all ted objects, ties seemed to be renerengtting a footing on tration of the senses.

    `Aowards heyve sold me up.

    ting ick, he room, he looked round again.

    `t ts got everyt me, tom.

    to Bible ravelling eyes, Mrs tulliver entered t stood in mute surprise to find  Bible before him.

    `A a spot  Beaton - sy-seven -  a long-lived family - ty and me are -  bed before long.

    o be pausing over ters birt ing nes to  tom and said in a sone of alarm--

    `t come upo Moss for t hey?

    `No, fatom, `te .

    Mr tulliver turned ly said,

    `As eighteen year since I married her...

    `Come next Lady Day, said Mrs tulliver, going up to  the page.

    ly on her face.

    `Poor Bessy, ty lass to t your good looks rarely. But youre sorely aged... dont you bear me ill- to do ter or for worse...

    `But I never t it ud be so for ulliver, range, scared look t er, `and my poor fato come on so all at once...

    `O mot talk in t way.

    `No, I kno let your poor mots been t I said... it ud o beg and pray... and it ud be no use no if I o go down o my hands and knees...

    `Dont say so, Bessy, said Mr tulliver, s of ion, o tice in  as I could no to make you amends, I  say you nay.

    `t stay  a living, and I migers... and me been suco you and never crossed you from o  ud be not rigurned against akem.

    `Motom, severely, `t time to talk about t.

    `Let ulliver. `Say w you mean, Bessy.

    ` everyts tting your face against ay y so ride about to market? And o put our  go into one o ttages in t doo t... and all because you must set your mind against folks till turning you.

    Mr tulliver rembling.

    `You may do as you like y... too many for me... Im noug a bankrupt - its no use standing up for anything now.

    `Fatom, `I dont agree  t to submit to be under akem. I get a pound a o do w well.

    `Say no more, tom, say no more: Ive  us bear one anotoo many for me.

 CHAPTER 9

    An Item Added to ter

    t first moment of renunciation and submission  struggle in trengt  increasing ability to embrace in one vieing conditions under et seems possible to us to fulfil pledges  t of o Bessy e too ure:  knoon  life o y, by muc of oo ors, and it  be easy else a situation suctle, and itude for any neo day-labour, and  ers, a prospect doubly bitter to  all Bessys precious to set

    o t pass. ened to tory talk, ed eyes, t every noively  t an easier alternative to take t trongest influence of all  om er ullivers  for generations, and  listening on a loool on er evenings imbered mill t  great floods,   do t o  and look at all ts, t  train of tion for t of  of  bear to t te and door, and felt t tain and broken ructed vagrancy o linger by t runs ao tropics and is at ravel and stretcre of its imagination to t a dim notion of  for t  tc nohe passive hours of recovery from sickness.

    `Ay, Luke, ernoon, as ood looking over te, `I remember ted trees. My fating - it o o get a cart full o young trees - and I used to stand i t like a dog.

    turned round, and, leaning against te post, looked at te buildings.

    `tory as ime. telling  in tory, for t a finger in it - its been too many for me, I know.

    `Ay, sir, said Luke,   on t, an t, as Ive seen i my time - ten looks comical: t  pig runs ater - it leaves noug a scratchin.

    `Its just as if it erday, noulliver  on, `- summat great o come of it; for  day and a bit of a feast, and I said to my mottle  ick bet er enjoyment of te,  narration in vision. `I tle cty and me - and so I said to ;Mot; I said, quot;s; So tell me o t till  a young s forty good year since t isnt many days out of em all as I  looked out into t to years end. I s my s all  it - t it ud be summat to draead of a new un.

    `Ay, sir, said Luke, `youd be a deal better  abide neiles all anot, an oat-cake i some plazen, to ts poor work, cry side.

    `But I doubt, Luke, tting rid o Ben, and making you do   he mill. Youll have a worse place.

    `Neer mind, sir, said Luke, `I s plague mysen. In been y year, an you cant get ty year rees gro till God Amig abide neual nor ne - you niver kno heyll gripe you.

    ter ts to an extent t left ional resources quite barren, and Mr tulliver ions into a painful meditation on ticed t  t evening at tea; and afterime to time. t Mrs tulliver, e  Maggie, he large coal fiercely.

    `Dear , Mr tulliver, s very eful, breaking t , and I dont knoo come from.

    `I dont te so o-nigher? said Maggie; `you seem uneasy.

    ` tom doesnt come? said Mr tulliver, impatiently.

    `Dear ! is it time? I must go and get ulliver, laying doing, and leaving the room.

    `Its nig eigulliver. ` t at t do the pen and ink.

    Maggie obeyed,   listening for toms footfall on tly irritated by to drorange lig ratened Maggie: so om oo.

    `tulliver, in an excited . Maggie  to open t  of tcop a bit, Maggie, Ill open it.

    Mrs tulliver o be a little frig  shers did for him.

    `Your suppers ready by tcook off  and coat. `You s by yourself, just as you like, and I  speak to you.

    `I ts tom, mot come into t.

    tom entered  ely on tand, and  her, who was saying,

    `Come, come, youre late - I  you.

    `Is tter, fatom.

    `You sit doulliver, peremptorily. `And, tom, sit doo e i the Bible.

    t do o speak, slo at his wife.

    `Ive made up my mind, Bessy, and Ill be as good as my o you. to lie dont be bearing one anotop in t man - tulliver but , tom -  to t me as I paid a dividend - but it  my fault - it oo many for me, and I must, give in. Ill put my neck in  to say as Ive brougo trouble, Bessy - and Ill serve  as if  man, tree as is broke - a tree as is broke.

    deeper tone,

    `But I  forgive  t me any s t ttom of everyt leman - I kno ratin, and no justice to be got? It signifies noto  - lemen as get money by doing business for poorer folks, and  forgive  be punisill o forget  as t treadmill! But  - oo big a raskill to let tom - you never forgive o be my son. time, o me - In got my e - e it i the Bible.

    `O fat? said Maggie, sinking dos o curse and bear malice.

    `It isnt ell you, said s s tell you, tom. rite.

    ` am I to e, Fatom, h gloomy submission.

    `rite as your fatulliver, took service under Joo ruin o make  amends I could for rouble, and because I ed to die in t t i t  forgive akem, for all t; and for all Ill serve , I .

    toms pen moved along tulliver looked scared, and Maggie trembled like a leaf.

    `No me  youve e, said Mr tulliver. tom read aloud, slowly.

    `Noe - e as youll remember o your fat, if ever tulliver.

    `O no, fat c make tom e t.

    `Be quiet, Maggie! said tom. `I se it.

 BOOK 4 CHAPTER 1

    A Variation of Protestantism Unknoo Bossuet

    JOURNEYING do tud tain parts of its course, telling  river once rose, like an angry, destroying god sions ion. Strange contrast, you may , bet produced on us by ts of commonplace  days  ts details to our o produced by tled Ro suceeps, t to ural fitness, like tain pine: nay, even in t t ness, as if ted from ty parent a sublime instinct of form. And t  grim and drunken ogres, tain grandeur of t in t boars usks tearing and rending, not tic grunter: ted ty, virtue, and tle uses of life: trast in ture rel, t-lipped princess, timid Israelite. t ime of colour eel and floating banners: a time of adventure and fierce struggle - nay, of living, religious art and religious ent cat in t great emperors leave tern palaces to die before trong? t is t tles try: to toric life of y, and raise up for me t tinted, ons of villages on t  - is a narroence,  elevate, but ratends to ex in all its bare vulgarity of conception; and I ion t traces of  of a gross sum of obscure vitality, t  into tions of ants and beavers. Pero tco lift above tragi-comic. It is a sordid life, you say, tullivers and Dodsons - irradiated by no sublime principles, no romantic visions, no active, self-renouncing faitrollable passions  t primitive rougy of s, t oil, t c of ure ten, ry to peasant life. ional ions and s  instruction and  polis prosaic form of ability in a gig of unfas side-disune ioning tle trace of religion, still less of a distinctively Cian creed. t manifests itself at all, seems to be rations, trong tenacity, seem to andard beyond ary custom. You could not live among sucifled for  of an outlet toiful, great, or noble: you are irritated ion out of keeping  river flooings of ty . A vigorous superstition t lass gods or lass oo be more congruous ery of t, tal condition of t-like Dodsons and tullivers.

    I s it is necessary t o understand  acted on tom and Maggie -  ed on young natures in many generations, t in tendency of al level of tion before to rongest fibres of ts. tyr or victim, ed in to science tell us t its  striving is after tainment of a unity est? In natural science, I ood, tty to t ions, and to s a vast sum of conditions. It is surely tion of human life.

    Certainly, tullivers oo specific a kind to be arrived at deductively, from tatement t t of testant population of Great Britain. ts core of soundness, as all t  and prosperous families  it est tincture of ters, t some parts t ulip petals, ed quite impartially,  preference for torical, devotional, or doctrinal. t t, if  kno t of co run in families, like ast rural paris a controversialist, but a good  omary and respectable: it o be baptised, else one could not be buried in to take t before deaty against more dimly understood perils; but it y to  ones funeral, and to leave an unimpeac be taxed   belonged to t eternal fitness of ted in tice of t substantial parisraditions - suco parents, faito kindred, industry, rigid y, t, tensils, to disappear from tion of first-rate commodities for t, and tever er frustration of all desire to tax traditional duty or propriety. A  identified  integrity, to admitted rules; and society oies in many of o motter and ty o make it oto be  and poor to, still less, to seem rico be  and ric only ric rico live respected and  your funeral ence t irely nullified if on turning out to be poorer ted or by leaving your money in a capricious manner  strict regard to degrees of kin. t t alo to correct t to t still not to alienate from t rigy. A conspicuous quality in ter s genuineness: its vices and virtues alike o  its o and interest, and  `kin but  let t bread, but only require to eat it ter herbs.

    t of traditional belief ran in tulliver veins, but it ion and -tempered rasullivers grandfato say t ulliver, a ed   t family.

    If sucullivers  of Pitt and  you already knoate of society in St Oggs t to act on turer life. It ill possible, even in t later time of anti-Cato anding: so  t Mr tulliver, tiveness on t  t any  co s, aken ulliver regarded iful respect, as o t  ced nobody to tell  common sense ain seeds ances ure us of  t a ive surfaces. tual seed ulliver ly been destitute of any corresponding provision, and o total absence of hooks.

 CHAPTER 2

    torn Nest Is Pierced by thorns

    taining in tation t accompanies t srouble, just as an acute pain is often a stimulus, and produces an excitement  strengt is in t folloime ensity t counteracts its pain, in time  sameness and trial is a dreary routine - it is t despair tens: it is t tory , and eye and ear are strained after some unlearned secret of our existence ure of satisfaction. time of utmost need o Maggie,  span of teen years. to ty of t early experience of struggle, of conflict bet ive and passionate nature; and to isen stic, riple y, books and  Maggie rangely old for  in ire  of t prudence and self-command  made tom manly in t of ellectual boyis o ill, sad monotony, tend to business again, tled, and ing as akems manager on t. tom  to and fro every morning and evening and became more and more silent in t intervals at  o say? One day oms interest in life, driven back and crusrating itself into tious resistance to misfortune. ties of o ening accompaniments of an easy prosperous om  apt to be dimmed by mists of feeling or imagination. Poor Mrs tulliver, it seemed, y: s among tle ions, all t little cares about reasures ury, since s purcongs, cy life.  ion by ing comparison of t . It eous to see tout ting tal restlessness  ty er il Maggie, becoming alarmed about elling  vexed tom t sting doing  amidst ty, toucrait of ing maternity, otle   soiling to te peevistempted to relieve e-brus it alone, my dear, your  as s your moto do t - I cant do till brusend Maggies o, in spite of its refusal to curl, no   cter if se different; yet t, so bruised in its small personal desires, found a future to rest on in t o save t hem.

    But tant presence of ful be o Maggie t of ive depression. As long as t seemed as if  alrong tide of pitying love almost as an inspiration, a ne  difficult life easy for  noead of caciturn ration of purpose in strange contrast  communicativeness and , and ted from day to day and from o ening  is someto youtures - ted in disappointment and discontent, to  t to take no notice of it, and it  of a imes? ticity. `It o do it. And t never part are apt to create impatience even in tion t streams fort tenderness and pity in time of more obvious affliction.

    Mr tulliver lingered noions to stay and c, as in old times, in t be reconciled : ttitude in s bruises; and in all beoed an allusion to tances. Even to ride round to t so black to  days on ors ion from o save someto of tors  tos; and under ture, t profuse man o be stinted or to stint any one else in amorpo tulliver could not economise enougo satisfy  not  quality. tom, trongly repelled by ered to  paying tors and t  quarters money, , and gave it to o put into tin box ore of sovereigns in tin box seemed to be t t broug beam of pleasure into t and transient, for it  t time . A deficit of more ting interest seemed a deep pit to fill y soms probable savings o be added. On t tire community of feeling in t round ticks ulliver carried tegrity of t up to t to ,  of moral pillory: it o o `do t trieve ion t if tors o  sion t  rigtle t Mr tulliver so peremptorily refused to receive anyt from Mr and Mrs Moss: but to all s of o t of denying  indulgences of mere flavour: o smuggle into tc ter supper tom.

    tions about debt, ullivers, may pere a smile on to self  any trouble of ours - t t my tradesman is out of pocket by me is to be looked at tainty t somebody elses tradesman is in pocket by somebody else, and since t be bad debts in t is mere egoism not to like t icular sead of our felloizens. I am telling tory of very simple people, s as to personal integrity and honour.

    Under all tration of desire, Mr tulliver retained tole  suffice to cill t t spring of fatterness, like everyt nig o get a loool and sit by  it. roke   er o tle caresses, eitom - tracted in t intervals erly preoccupied  t ting up into a  of  Gritty  o make urn in tle o a narroinued misfortune, t to become a perpetually repeated round of sad and bitter ts: t t t to a recurrent series of movements.

    tors. Uncles and aunts paid only s visits no stay to meals, and traint caused by Mr tullivers savage silence, o ted room alking, ened tness of ts on all sides, and tended to make tances - to get a furniture,  anyto offer you,  as anybody, present an embarrassing negation of reasons for s on  t distant day, tion in tian society of t o a sectarian cs some he sacred fire.

 CHAPTER 3

    A Voice from t

    ONE afternoon s o flo door and ed t t seem to be enjoying ting porc  and to be searc  disclosed by t er a visit of akems rifling fault en ten  a lasting terror in Maggies mind. t  some time or ot beat o speak in  t. t of all dread  o  misfortune tcrievably disgraceful. ttered scoms ude under t dread, and again and again ears, as tnut trees nor tant  only future scenes of e and of footsteps on t  tom  a man in a sealskin cap and a blue pluscoat, carrying a pack on errier of brindled coat and defiant aspect.

    `O Bob, its you! said Maggie, starting up ion, for ts to efface tion of Bobs generosity. `Im so glad to see you.

    `ting ed face, but immediately relieving  by looking do one of disgust, `Get out hunderin sawney!

    `My brot at , Bob, said Maggie, ` St Oggs in time.

    `ell, Miss, said Bob, `I so see Mr tom - but t isnt just w Im come for - look here!

    Bob  of depositing ep, and  a roened togetring. Apparently,  t to tention, but rathing which he had carried under his arm, wrapped in a red handkerchief.

    `See , `you  too free, Miss, I  I lig t make up to you a bit for t; for I urs - an as for picturs, look here!

    ted `Keepsake and six or seven numbers of a `Portrait Gallery, in royal octavo; and tic request to look referred to a portrait of George ty of h.

    `ts o genelmen  on, turning over tement, `s o noses - an some bald an some  genelmen, I reckon. An o cry - look tin on t o door dressed like t out ot t tin em! I sot up till t nig em - I did - till tared at me out o turs as if to em. But, lors! I s knoo say to em. ttin company for you, Miss, and t tall, urs - -rate article.

    `And youve bougouc Im afraid you gave a great deal of money for them.

    `Not me! said Bob. `Id imes to you a bit for t ted about ts stuck by me as if it ur all,  of it  life yourn akin ty, Miss - I t Id make free to buy it for you, an t to matcook up tringed packet of books - `I t you mig more print as urs, an I got t, an I t ttermost books. An I  say me nay, an tell me as you  om did he suvreigns.

    `No, indeed, Bob, said Maggie, `Im very to you for to me and tom. I dont t many friends who care for me.

    `ter friends nor any Cian, said Bob, laying doention of  considerable salking to a young lass like Maggie, tongue overrun o speak. `I cant give you Mumps, cause  to go ao express ive movement of ail.) `But Id get you a pup, Miss, an welcome.

    `No, t keep a dog of my own.

    `Es a pity: else t mind about it not bein ts mots in tc into talk from breakfast to sundos, a poor lorade as any on t;obys noug a mongrel - t to look at in ; But I says to ; are you yoursen but a mongrel? t muco look at you.quot; Not but  o breed myself, but I cant abide to see one cur grinnin at anotly taking up  ongue ing in an undisciplined manner.

    `ont you come in time, and see my brother, Bob? said Maggie.

    `Yes, Miss, time. Youll give my duty to om is; ook to gro.

    tick having somehow gone wrong.

    `You dont call Mumps a cur, I suppose, said Maggie, divining t any interest sifying to er.

    `No, Miss, a fine , said Bob, ying smile, `Mumps is as fine a cross as youll see anyimes enoo. ry stops to look at  you  catc try much - he minds his own business - he does.

    to be tolerating tence of objects in general, rongly confirmatory of this high praise.

    ` me pat him?

    `Ay, t alk to oget o miscell  no secrets but humb, he does.

    `Your big ts t Bob? said Maggie.

    `ts  is, Miss, said Bob, quickly, exing a singularly broad specimen of t difference bet tells i measuring out ts ligs dear stuff, you see, so a big tells. I clap my t t o t, and t up tot.

    `But, Bob, said Maggie, looking serious, `ts cing: I dont like to .

    `Dont you, Miss? said Bob, regretfully. `t. But Im so used to talking to Mumps, an  mind a bit o cing,   t my dinner out ont. I niver c anybody as doesnt  to c me, Miss - lors, Im a  c  o sport, an no go s, In got no varmint to come over but them haggling women. I wish you good evening, Miss.

    `Goodby, Bob. to see tom.

    `Yes, Miss, said Bob, moving on a feeps; turning  trick  t, Miss - but it ud be a pity, it  find anotrick so good - an  might as well ha been narrer.

    Maggie, ted into Bobs directing Madonna, lauge of  oo, and under touched his cap and walked away.

    t gone, notanding Burkes grand dirge over till in t far-off  ouctle finger or tful an adoration for t in armour calling aloud on o t.

    t gleam of merriment soon died arast. Soo dispirited even to like ansions about Bobs present of books, and so ing ool,  caring to look at t yet. S t t t-ed Bob  muchan hers.

    Maggies sense of loneliness and utter privation of joy ness of advancing spring. All te outdoor nooks about o  s in nurturing and c mixed up ion, every deligo ringed instruments e cries of imprisoned spirits sending a strange vibration t  tle collection of scurned over  s. Even at scen ely. And no t cion - tšŠlšŠmaque ions on Cian doctrine: trengtimes Maggie t sented ts novels and all Byrons poems! - t o dull y to ual daily life. And yet... t sed. S no dream-isfy ed some explanation of ted at t-table; ttle sordid tasks t filled tiness of ender, demonstrative love; t tom didnt mind , and t togetion of all pleasant t o o oted some key t and and, in understanding, endure, t t . If saug men knes and martyrs erested Maggie so mucs. Stle of saints and martyrs, and  of eac temporary provision against t Smithfield.

    In one of tations, it occurred to  ston toms sc runk. But sock unaccountably so tin Dictionary and Grammar, a Delectus, a torn Eutropius, ting Euclid. Still, Latin, Euclid and Logic ep in masculine  knoed and even glad to live. Not t tual e unmixed: a certain mirage  of ture, in ainments. And so ttery, began to nibble at t of tree of knory, and triump anding e equal to tudies. For a ely enoug, as if s out to a ty, trackless, uncertain journey. In ty of ion sake Aldric into too ter-foled out on  - artled sense t tion bete for  deepened as t on, and t gained faster and faster on tient mind. Some at tdoor sunsears, and sometimes, if  in tudies s loneliness, and fits even of anger and red tooom, ing difference -  over ions and conscience like a lava stream and frig it  difficult for o become a demon. t from o some great man - alter Scott, perell c in ter t s still,  noticing o fetcurning  and forsaking it.

    ternoon, t of Bobs cent a neion. S it  of t ts to feel, t so endure t sometever it  est and best on tisfied ignorance, or like tom,  tigig beating trouble as if s day, able struggles -  of ed sreasures of t, oil cerature and false ory - ile information about Saxon and otful example, but une  t kno s, becomes morality, and, developing trouble as if every otc forgetful of time wrong.

    At last Maggies eyes glanced do lay on to turn over listlessly trait Gallery, but so examine ttle roied togetring. `Beauties of tator, `Rasselas, `Economy of ters - s of matter t ian Year - t seemed to be a  do t tisfaction, o attaco a name t strays solitary in took up ttle, old, clumsy book y: it urned doain passages strong pen and ink marks, long since broime. Maggie turned from leaf to leaf and read  t t t, and  be o enjoy t never be quiet nor free from care: for in everyt ing, and in every place t  turn t find ty t ience, if t ing croo mount unto t, t set out courageously, and lay to t; t t pluck up and destroy t e inclination to to all private and eart a man inordinately lovet all dependetsoever is to be overcome;  peace and tranquillity... It is but little t in comparison of t rongly tempted, so grievously afflicted, so many ried and exercised. test to call to mind t t ttle adversities. And if t little unto t tience be t receive ten not to t unto t unto truteach inwardly...

    A strange t by a strain of solemn music, telling of beings o anot o point,  so listen while a low voice said,

    ` t, since t t? In  to be to be looked on as toget unto t tangled and perisance, yet it is as not penances, yet are t little. And if tain to all knoue, and very fervent devotion, yet is ting; to , one t necessary for  is t? t  all,  of ain noten said unto t enjoy mucions, evil perturbations, and superfluous cares fly ae fear leave te love shall die.

    Maggie dreo see a sudden vision more clearly.  of life t s -  to be reac t, and strengt, to be irely eacing to be  flasion of a problem, t all t on  ral necessity of t time sy of sing tion from ification of aking and out of   part of a divinely guided ern of sorrorengturning to it after sill t do could never rest in t, s in tire devotedness, and in t discovery, renunciation seemed to rance into t satisfaction rutpourings, t renunciation remains sorroill panting for asy because so it. Srines and systems - of mysticism or quietism: but t of t communication of a o Maggie as an unquestioned message.

    I suppose t is t a book-stall, o turning bitter ers into sness; ises ne ten doed for ts prompting, it is tary, ruggle, trust and triump ten on velvet cuso teaco treading  on tones. And so it remains to all time, a lasting record of ions, t and suffered and renounced - in ter, peronsured ing and long fasts, and  from ours - but under t far-off e desires, trivings, the same weariness.

    In ing tory of unfas to fall into a tone of empone of good society, remely moderate kind, but are als being eligible but sucouc and graceful irony. But ty s claret and its velvet carpets, its dinner-engagements six s opera and its fa?ry ballrooms; rides of its ennui on t to keep clear of crinoline vortices, gets is science done by Faraday, and its religion by to be met in t  ime or need for belief and emp good society, floated on gossamer ional life condensed in unfragrant deafening factories, cramping itself in mines, sing at furnaces, grinding, tered in lonely s on tional life is based entirely on emp, o all tivities necessary for tenance of good society and lig spends its en in a ced fas family discord unsoftened by long corridors. Under sucances ts myriads of souls ion even to unspeculative minds; just as you inquire into tuffing of your couc Frence no question. Some ic belief in alcoasis or outside standing-ground in gin, but t require somet good society calls ent  motives in an entire absence of  ience and feed  lies outside personal desires, t includes resignation for ourselves and active love for  ourselves. No sort of ent comes from an experience springing out of t need. And it ed sorro and a   a fait tablisies and appointed guides - for t at  you kno sion and uosity even into ion: ill a drama for   sensity. And so it came to pass t sen lost t of y by being excessive in t; sen strove after too  and came dotle  only determined to  plain se s contribute sometoin box, but s in t instance in ification to ask for it at a linen-s Oggs, instead of getting it in a more quiet and indirect  irely ing, in toms reproof of . `I dont like my sister to do sucom, `Ill take care t ts are paid,  your lo enderness and bravery mingled ion of t little speec Maggie  as dross, overlooking took toms rebuke as one of om -co rove to be contented  o require not is t out on our abandonment of egoism - tyrdom and endurance,  allohered and worn.

    t  of tree of knoo ss of t ardour, s of triump s s. Santly in ian Year (no longer rejected as a ` tinual stream of roo ardently learning to see all nature and life in t of o need any oterial for o s and oted stitco Maggie, since band and sleeve and ty of being ses of mental wandering.

    ly over  any one migo look at. t neanding some volcanic up s in ender soft lig mingled itself as added loveliness line of  t of puzzled  Maggie s  trairy co assert o look up from cing for t some needful . tting fond of all, bro of furniture noe of ic o give o   to  black locks plaited into a coronet on t of er tiable fasiquated times.

    `Let your mot bit o pleasure, my dear, said Mrs tulliver, `Id trouble enough your hair once.

    So Maggie, glad of anyt ogeted to tion, and seadily refusing, o look at ulliver liked to call ttention to Maggies ed virtues, but o give.

    `I kneo me. But its a pity s made o commoner stuff - s: to marry  for her.

    And Maggies graces of mind and body fed  patiently enouger, or said sometimidly  trouble being turned into a blessing. ook it all as part of ers goodness, o isfied vindictiveness, tulliver did not  spiritual consolation - ed to sion of debt and to have his revenge.

 BOOK 5 CHAPTER 1

    In the Red Deeps

    ttingroom  eaco and along to to tting  tter  not alone, as usual. Some one ime to feel t it  to c by a side glance, looked s tairs; for Mr akem sometimes came in and inspected t t ting  sell  so tom, and to   at all agitating to Maggie to see Pained itude and pity too en oget t sort of  P be altered by   care about o , tle altered - it ured boys face, y to ay, and after all ations, Maggie felt t so say a feo  still be melanco be, and like o look at o like  t Maggie glanced too s face toarted from  to reac do scrying to repress to recall snatcil surning along the road, and she could go down again.

    It o lengt t be finis s beyond te, and satisfied ting out of doors. One of  o go to St Oggs, o a spot t lay beyond  rise of ground crorees, lying along tes of Dorlcote Mill. Insignificant, I call it, because in  it s oeful result, and t is rees, making an uneven er of a mile along t side of Dorlcote Mill and t fields be bounded by t urned off and led to t o very capricious ed stone-quarry - so long exed t botrees, and retc close-nibbled. In  ao reconcile o an excursion ting every  no  rest ually on t on a grassy ooping aslant from teep above en to ts, like tiniest bells on t of Silence, or see t piercing tant bougo cruant ime too, t ional reason o any ot, on t day so   sometimes, in ion, s s to deny  indulgence in it.

    You may see e turning and enters tcall figure and old lavender goary black silk s-like material; and noies it over ainly suppose o be farteent seem to ed, pered figure ood ary and voluntary , and ts in race: t croing all figure, so  of kinsc en sees in older faces under borderless caps, out of keeping ant youts to flas in a sudden, passionate glance t e all tude, like a damped fire leaping out again when all seemed safe.

    But Maggie  uneasy at t. S trees and t t t storms urned upartled gesture to see P raised , and to  out oo coloured o pleasure. S out  t  t rong in  to speak.

    `You startled me, sly. `I never meet any one o be  me?

    It  to perceive t Maggie felt herself a child again.

    `Yes, I did, said Pill embarrassed. `I o see if you ; but you never came. tcoday, and  you in sig be displeased h me.

    `No, said Maggie  Po accompany o unity of speaking to you. Ive never forgotten o tom, and me too; but I  sure t you om and I  deal of trouble since t makes one t rouble came.

    `I cant believe t you  of me so muc of you, said Pimidly. `Do you kno morning in tudy  me.

    Pure-case from , and opened it. Maggie sao space range, dreamy eyes. It er-colour sketc as a portrait.

    `O dear, said Maggie, smiling, and flus a queer little girl I   pink frock. I really tle pause: `am I like ed me to be?

    t te, but t glance Maggie turned on P t of a coquette. S  it e deligion and love. P  , before ly, `No, Maggie.

    t died out a little from Maggies face, and t trembling of t s turn ao look at hen he said, slowly,

    `You are very muciful t you would be.

    `Am I? said Maggie, turning in a deeper flusurned ook some steps looking straiging o tomed to ty, t in abstaining from t more of abandoning all care for adornment, templation of ,   occurred to  s o like tc sig no room for any otrees and o a green  surrounded by an ampre of t as t about tened, Maggies face  its gloill w Philip again, she said in a serious, sad voice,

    `I  t is trial I o bear in everyt keep anyto love ; and tom is different - and my fat is like deat part  part  never take any notice of eac  I ed to speak to you for. I ed to let you kno tom and I cant do as  suc if I beten all about you, it is not out of envy or pride - or - or any bad feeling.

    Maggie spoke leness as s on, and o fill ears. tronger resemblance to y appeal more strongly to y.

    `I kno you mean,  , `I knoo keep us apart on bot it is not rig you be angry o call you Maggie in my ts - it is not rigo sacrifice everyto ot deal for my fat I  give up a friendstac of any sort, in obedience to any  recognise as right.

    `I dont knoen, ed, it o me t I  bound to give up anytill it o me t I could ty. But no good  - it ate of mind. Im quite sure t o him.

    `But  make o see eacimes? said Po say somet checked himself.

    `O, Im sure  like it. Dont ask me , said Maggie, in a distressed tone. `My fatrongly about some t at all happy.

    `No more am I, said Puously, `I am not happy.

    `ly. `At least - I oug to ask - but Im very, very sorry.

    Purned to ience to stand still any longer, and t out of t trees and buser t last o insist immediately on ting.

    `Ive been a great deal  last, timidly, `since I  , and being discontented because I couldnt ermined for us - and it makes t is laid upon us and doing o do.

    `But I cant give up ly. `It seems to me o be beautiful and good, and  er tisfied  til our feelings are deadened? I deligures - I long to be able to paint sucrive and strive, and cant produce . t is pain to me, and alil my faculties lose tated a little, and t ot iful in it - I  have lived.

    `O P feel so. But  began to beat ent.

    `ell, turning quickly round and fixing reatingly on ented to live, if you  me see you sometimes. ted, o  me. And if I could only see you no me talk to you a little, and s you cared for me - and t o be glad of life.

    `But eringly. (Could s  speak to erest to vary t erest before it came.)

    `If you  me see you imes - ented if it  could injure no ones  en my life. Besides-- P on, ive astuteness of love at one-and-ty, `if ty beto us, ry and quenc by our friends by our influence on bot bring about a  , if I could kno t believe ty in my orary.

    Maggie s, under conflicting ts. It seemed to ion t to see P only innocent but good; per really o find contentment, as s. t said t music to Maggie; but at it t monotonous o obey - t sucervieo be discovered in, somet, if discovered, must cause anger and pain, and t t as a spiritual blig t again, like c breeze, persuading  ts and  tile sacrifice for one, to t iveness too  ain pang, alt made  to  tterness to ion t Maggie  as frank and unconstrained towards him as when she was a child.

    `I cant say eit last, turning round and o , lest I s seek for guidance.

    `May I come again, to-morro day - or next week?

    `I tter e, said Maggie faltering again. `I o go to St Oggs sometimes, and I can put tter in t.

    `O no, said P  be so  see tter - and -  any enmity, I believe, but ly from me;  deal about ion. Pray let me come ell me ell me, I en as I can till I do see you.

    `I t must be so, t be quite certain of coming icular evening.

    Maggie felt a great relief in adjourning to enjoy tes of companions t s linger a little: t time t, so pain Pelling ermination.

    `I cant  er a fes of silence, `range it is t alked to eac as if it erday  Lorton. And yet  botered in t is five years.  you seemed to  of feeling t I  quite so sure t you   so muco fill your mind - I  quite sure you  me now.

    `I  t you  see you, said P made me like you better t  to explain t: I dont trongest effects our natures are susceptible of can ever be explained. e can neitect t nor t on us. test of painters only once painted a mysteriously divine c old  - and  tell o be divine. I tores laid up in our ure t our understanding can make no complete inventory of. Certain strains of music affect me so strangely - I can never  ttitude of mind for a time, and if t  I might be capable of heroisms.

    `A you mean about music - I feel so, said Maggie, clasping uosity. `At least, sone, `I used to feel so  church.

    `And you long for it, Maggie? said P ionate pity. `Atle t is beautiful in your life. tle girl.

    to t, reflected from ters.

    `No, I ly, `except a very, very few.

    Paken from  a small volume, and  the back, as he said,

    `A o take it  it in my pocket because I am studying a scene for a picture.

    Maggie  too and saitle: it revived an old impression ering force.

    `quot;te,quot; saking t once - I read to o read t. I  on  in my o of t beginning. Poor Minna! I  get my mind aland Isles - I used to feel the rough sea.

    Maggie spoke rapidly ening eyes.

    `take t volume c. `I dont  it noead - you among tcing shadows.

    Maggie   o P, as if to say `avaunt to floating visions.

    `Do keep it, Maggie, said Preatingly, `it will give you pleasure.

    `No, tting it aside  o be; it o see and kno would make me long for a full life.

    `But you  al lot:   is narroicism - I dont like to see you persisting in it, Maggie. Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

    `But not for me - not for me, said Maggie, oo muc  - t last long.

    `Dont  saying quot;good by,quot; Maggie, said Pcinued still to  speaking. `I must not go any fart I?

    `O no, I forgot; goodby, said Maggie, pausing and putting out o ion brougrong current to Per tood looking at eacs, hdrawing her hand,

    `Im very grateful to you for t is very s to  a iful t seems t God s so t you could care about a queer little girl  I t you cared for me more tom did.

    `A fretfully, `you her.

    `Per, said Maggie, simply, `but t tanding om by t is dark to me. But I s you - t keep apart.

    `Dont say so, Maggie, said P t little girl in my mind for five years, didnt I earn some part in  not to take e away from me.

    `Not if I  I am not - I must submit. Sated a moment and ted to say to you, t you ter not take more notice of my brot boo old me not to speak to you again, and  c. I am too long away. Good by. She gave him her hand once more.

    `I sen as I can till I see you again, Maggie. - hers.

    `Yes, yes, I  fir-tree; ter es, as if ill.

    Maggie   already begun; P o do not remember and oed intervie you must not suppose t  isfied  persuading  o infuse some o Maggies life - seeking t ends for  test promise of love to girlisenderness s o cely ty, t s love o associate  cenderness, o. If any o claim it all. ty of it t a mind like s very yout tree, for  of t and space it o flouris , by persuading  of em of privation?  not seeing her.

 CHAPTER 2

    Aunt Glegg Learns thumb

    ruggles  entirely ing anotom ier, noisier antial obstacles, and gaining more definite conquests. So it or, tamer of es, treaming ed c from afar, filling ty days side, truggle ronger ligion. From  a youto be on anding om erprise: and for getting a fine flourisupidity t on a mind a good amount of subjects in erest. But nooms strong ogetegrity, s and ion, and made trating s and surmounting discouragements. co conceive o be rat  into t of to be made of sucuff. t  to tom, in ts o t t after a time  perrusted to travel at certain seasons, and buy in for ties  s less o t t Mr Deane, o take ell tom to step in and sit  uring and catecicles of export and import,  utility on tive advantages to ts of St Oggs of  in ttoms - a subject on  alk and oms salary  all except t o tin box; and  it so expenses in spite of  t tom ype of trious Apprentice; rong appetite for pleasure - amer of o make a distinguisreats and benefits to oty, and being pronounced one of t young fellos; nay, ermined to acer; but ical sold  to sucs could only lie for  abstinence and self-denial: tain milestones to be passed and one of t  of s.  point, rode along  sracting some raturnine sternness, as a young man is likely to do  intensely t common cause  on being irreproac o pass muc criticism on t conduct: tions  in sympatoms face stle radiance during  o s and deeper motives; but it o struggle. A cer at unity self - t performs  intends, subdues every counteracting impulse and inctly possible, is strong by its very negations.

    You may imagine t toms more and more obvious unlikeness to ted to conciliate ternal aunts and uncles; and Mr Deanes favourable reports and predictions to Mr Glegg concerning toms qualifications for business, began to be discussed amongst tance.  appeared, to do t,  causing it any expense and trouble. Mrs Pullet  it strange if toms excellent complexion, so entirely t of t argue a certainty t urn out o s only indicating a tinge of tulliver blood groed a cautious liking for tom ever since ed and sensible beion o a resolution to furts actively - some time, y offered of doing so in a prudent manner,  ultimate loss; but Mrs Glegg observed t s given to speak  book, as some people  t ly likely to find t  came, it er talk. Uncle Pullet, after silent meditation for a period of several lozenges, came distinctly to t  ter not to meddle h him.

    tom, meano rely on any one but ural sensitiveness toions of favourable opinion, o see imes in a friendly ed to dine at   sure of being punctual. But about a year ago sometom to test ion.

    Bob Jakin, om and Maggie, aed  Oggs one evening, t t tle private talk, ook ty of asking if Mr tom  of making money by trading a bit on . trading, om  of a cargo to foreign ports; because Bob icular friend tle business for  om on ting. tom erested at once, and begged for full explanation;  of t of a speculation t migion into multiplication, t  once determined to mention tter to   to appropriate some of tin box to t ed   paid  quarters money into tin box, and tulliver  consent to put t at interest lest . Since ed in t by it,  be easy  keeping the money under his eye.

    tom approac carefully, as ed on t evening, and Mr tulliver listened, learning forical glance.  impulse o give a positive refusal, but oms ermination to be master. ook t, got out t, and fetcin box - sloo defer t of a painful parting. ted  table and opened t little padlock-key  pocket in all vacant moments. tes and t sovereigns, and ed t on table - only a een pounds in ter all the pinching.

    `, t his lips.

    `Suppose I begin y six pounds, fatom.

    Mr tulliver separated t, and keeping , said,

    `Its as muc o my pay in a year.

    `Yes, fat is suc of ttle money . And in t double our savings.

    `Ay, my lad, said t you mig - you mig got many.

    tom .

    `And you kno pay a dividend  ed to see it all in a lump - and . If you trust to luck, its sure to be against me. Its Old  t up again - deatake me.

    Mr tullivers voice trembled, and tom  for a fees before he said,

    `Ill give it up, fat to it so strongly.

    But, uno abandon togetermined to ask o venture ty pounds, on condition of receiving five per cent of ts. t o ask. So  to knoom proposed t togeto o open t pride clung to  Bobs tongue would relieve .

    Mr Glegg, at t ernoon of a  August day, urally counting  to assure  total  varied since yesterday. to ered tom, in o Mr Glegg very questionable companions of a man errier, o side, and glanced from under  after all be a cover to t offensive designs. Mr Gleggs spectacles, , made tails alarmingly evident to him.

    ` dog back, cake and  before ors hree yards of him.

    `Get out  as a lamb, sir, - an observation ed beers legs.

    `ever does tom? said Mr Glegg. ` information about t my trees? If Bob came in ter of `information, Mr Glegg saolerating some irregularity.

    `No, sir, said tom. `I came to speak to you about a little matter of business of my own.

    `Ay -  o do ? said tleman, getting mild again.

    `Its my dog, sir, said ts me as put Mr tom up to t o business, for Mr toms been a friend o mine iver since I tle c tenin ter. An if a bit o luck turns up, Im allays t Mr tom  it. An its a do o money  - ten or t clear o send out a little carguy - ligake up no room; you may pack ty pound so as you cant see turs as please fools, so I reckon t like to  a market. An Id go to Laceom along  of a vessel as is goin to take em out - I knoo believe me, I can take you to him.

    Uncle Glegg stood open-moutonis at ty, anding could  Bob first over acles, tom, doubtful of o o it.

    `You seem to be a kno last.

    `Ay, sir, you say true, returned Bob, nodding  Mumps to talk to, I s top-umble in a fit. I suppose its because I niver  to scs ;you s me to sc more - quot; I says - quot;an ty.quot; Lors, ses  an taters as often as stin so full o money, I must o spend it for me - but its botnt like her.

    Uncle Glegg,  ill a disapproving observation to make, w his face serious.

    `A a loss for  keep t big dog, to eat as mucs s han in anger, and quickly added,

    `But, come nos  tom. I suppose you  a little sum to make a venture   all, eh?

    `No, sir, said tom, colouring. `But my fato risk it, and I dont like to press  ty or ty pounds to begin  for it, and ttle capital of my o a loan.

    `Ay... Ay, said Mr Glegg, in an approving tone. `ts not a bad notion, and I  say as I  be your man. But itll be as o see t, as you talk on. And to buy t somebody to stand surety for you, if t into your ious old gentleman, looking over acles at Bob.

    `I dont ts necessary, uncle, said tom. `At least, I mean it  be necessary for me, because I kno per would be rigo y.

    `You get your per-centage out o t Bob.

    `No, sir, said Bob, ratly, `I didnt offer to get a apple for Mr tom, o purpose to e out of it myself. ricks t.

    `ell, but its not rigage, said Mr Glegg. `Ive no opinion o transactions w allays looks bad.

    `ell, t once ell you  byt, an its money in my pocket in ts e chap, I am.

    `Mr Glegg, Mr Glegg, said a severe voice from to tea? - or are you going to stand talking ill you get murdered in t?

    `Murdered? said Mr Glegg; `alking of? om come about a bit o business.

    `Murdered - yes - it isnt many sizes ago, since a packman murdered a young ole o a ditch.

    `Nay, nay, said Mr Glegg, soot.

    `ell, its tradicting  business, it ud be more fitting if youd bring o t  kno it, instead o ting, underminding way.

    `ell, well, said Mr Glegg, `well come in now.

    `You neednt stay o Bob, in a loud voice, adapted to t tance bet  anyt deal e after you.

    `Stop a bit; not so fast, said Mr Glegg: `I  done . Come in, tom, come in, epping in at the French window.

    `Mr Glegg, said Mrs G. in a fatal tone. `If youre going to let t man and  before my very face, be so good as to let me kno a rigo ask t, I hope.

    `Dont you be uneasy, mum, said Bob, touc once t Mrs Glegg  of game o be at t. `ell stay out upo t  oget a real gentles ies suc deal ead o goin into ts iff stock, a-looking like bottles al stoppers, an all got to get t of a bit o calico - it stans to reason you mun pay times tral tin goods - an pays no rent, an isnt forced to ttle ill t on  lors, mum, you kno is better nor I do - you can see them shopmen, Ill be bound.

    `Yes, I reckon I can, and too, observed Mrs Glegg, intending to imply t Bobs flattery  on anding bes and legs apart,  at ty of ed.

    `Ay, to be sure, mum, said Bob. `   eyes on you. I know wime - close upon Squire Darleigone eps...

    `A it  tea. `You knoo t packman  in o bring th Irish linen?

    `Look you t I kno bargains yever made in your life ter nor a sraigo call at tone ooping and tically  - `an tannin out on tone steps, it ud  like openin a pack - t s ony t isnt for t-maids. try times, t ted cottons no put suc must be first-rate quality - tur as youd buy - summat as ud ures.

    `Yes, better quality nor any youre like to carry: youve got not-rate but brazenness, Ill be bound, said Mrs Glegg, riump sense of able sagacity. `Mr Glegg, are you going ever to sit doo your tea? tom, theres a cup for you.

    `You speak true t for ladies like you. times gone by for t. Bargains picked up dirt c o damage  out or else niver seen i t not fit to offer to ric t open my pack to you, mum: no, no; Im imperent cimes makes folks imperent - but Im not to put t.

    ` goods to you carry in your pack? said Mrs Glegg. `Fine-coloured t.

    `All sorts, mum, all sorts, said Bob, t let us say no more about t, if you please. Im oms business an Im not to take up time wi my own.

    `And pray, o be kept from me? said Mrs Glegg, y, o let t.

    `A little plan o nevvy toms ured Mr Glegg; `and not altogettle plan for making money ts t sort o plan for young folks as  tin to make, eh, Jane?

    `But I  isnt a plan o be done for s ly noo do  you speak for yourself tom, and let your aunt knohings, as a nevvy should?

    `t, said tom, bridling tation t aunt Gleggs voice alle boys. o do me a kindness. And  - a small part of a cargo as a private speculation; and o do a little in t make some money. A large interest is got in t way.

    `Large intrest? said aunt Glegg,  do you call large intrest?

    `ten or t, Bob says, `after expenses are paid.

    `t I let to knoo ing tone of reproac you allays told me as tting more nor five per cent.

    `Poo go into trade, could you? You cant get more t y.

    `But I can turn a bit o money for you, an o risk it - not as to speak on. But if youd a mind to lend a bit o money to Mr tom,  an get a trifle for urd lady like you ud like tter if your nevvy took part on it.

    ` do you say, Mrs G.? said Mr Glegg. `Ive a notion,  tom  of a nest-egg - rest, you kno some little sums lyin idle ted up in a stockin toe, or t...

    `Mr Glegg, its beyond iverytion to tramps next, as they may come and rob me.

    `ell, o join me y pounds, you can - Ill make it fifty. tll be a pretty good nest-egg - eom?

    `Youre not counting on me, Mr Glegg, I  doubt. `Very  you. I so see t, urning to Bob.

    `And no to s me out o my o put money into it - I dont say as it sy pounds, to say it for me - but s in t not to risk till its proved as it  be lost.

    `Ay, ts a pleasant sort o risk, t is, said Mr Glegg, indiscreetly  tom,  Bob stemmed tburst.

    `Ay, mum, s s not fair. You see  bit of a job anss a fine to  my bit of a nest-egg as ter calls it, all by my o  torrys mill, an its gro an a bit, till In got a matter o ty pound to lay out, besides makin my mot more, ony Im suc  tin em  lustily), `any otty penny out on it. But me!... lors, I sty near w I paid for em.

    ` a bit of good net, noronising tone, moving from tea-table, and folding her napkin.

    `E  o look at. Id scorn to s you. It ud be an insult to you.

    `But let me see, said Mrs Glegg, still patronising. `If to be a bit tter quality.

    `No, mum. I knoing up . `Im not going t expose trade to a lady like you. Packs is come do ud cut you to t to see t your service, sir, .

    `All in good time, said Mr Glegg, really uno cut s ted at tom?

    `No, sir; I left Stowe in my place.

    `Come, put do me see, said Mrs Glegg, draing y.

    `Dont you ask it, mum, said Bob, entreatingly.

    `Make no more  do as I tell you.

    `E I am, said Bob, sloing ep, and beginning to untie it  ences). `Its not as youll buy a single to do it... for tir a  ud be a pity for anybody to buy up ts as good as a junketing to em ime noo Lace on, becoming rapid again, and  er, an ony t by Providence o purpose to c for t got muc  been for to t five s a fart  nibbles off time, an t to to make a bit of a blaze for em. Lors, its as good as a fire, to look at such a hankicher!

    Bob  a distance for admiration, but Mrs Glegg said sharply,

    `Yes, but nobody s a fire time o year. Put t me look at your nets, if youve got em.

    `Eold you  ud be, said Bob, flinging aside tion. `I kno ud turn again you to look at sucry articles as I carry. s t it? You mig poor folkss victual, mum - it ud ony take aite. t, as tterns all missed - lors, oree mig, added Bob, flinging it beo turf, as if to save Mrs Gleggs eyes, `itll be bougers  Fibbs End - ts en s - ten yards, countin ty s a penny less. But Ill say no more, mum, its noto you - a piece o muslim like t - you can afford to pay times t s nets you talked on -  a piece as ull serve you to make fun on...

    `Bring me t muslin, said Mrs Glegg, `its a buff - Im partial to buff.

    `E a damaged tone of deprecating disgust. `Youd do not, mum - youd give it to t ud be a pity - soo muc - its unbecoming for sarvants.

    `Fetc and let me see you measure it, said Mrs Glegg, autatively.

    Bob obeyed entatious reluctance.

    `See ra o see   on a distant view.

    `Ill give you six s, s doions an ultimatum.

    `Didnt I tell you, no ud  your feelings to look at my pack? t damaged bits turned your stomac most quickness, and apparently about to fasten up o seein a different sort o article carried by packmen, one old you t: my goods are for common folks. Mrs Pepper ull give me ten s muslin, an be sorry as I didnt ask icles ansill t aub, an t  be while Im a young un.

    `ell, seven shilling, said Mrs Glegg.

    `Put it out o your mind, mum, no, to look at before I tie my pack: just for you to see rades come to: spotted and sprigged, you see, beautiful, but yallo t suc, if it  been yallos took me a deal o study to knoicles:  as a pig - net or calico o me. I t t vally as . I ook in dreadful - for Im a strait-forrard co no tricks, mum. I can ony say my nose is my o beyond, I sty quick. An I gev five an eig piece o net - if I o tell y anytellin you fibs: an five an eig - not a penny more - for its a icle, an I like to commodate tpence for six yards - as c  on it was paid for.

    `I dont mind , said Mrs Glegg.

    ` six altoget isnt o tomorro ttern ready s ony times ts t to a lady like you? ic tie to his bundle.

    `Come, lay me out t muslin, said Mrs Glegg. ` s.

    `You  lady, o the winder.

    `ell, put it me out, said Mrs Glegg, peremptorily.

    `But if I let you  for ten s tell nobody. I sock - trade, ud  me, if t. Im obliged to make believe as I ask more nor I do for my goods, else t I . Im glad you dont insist upo buyin t, for t my t bargains for Mrs Pepper o Fibbs End - an somer.

    `Let me look at t again, said Mrs Glegg, yearning after ts and sprigs nohey were vanishing.

    `ell, I cant deny you, mum, said Bob,  out. `E a pattern noicle Im recommendin Mr tom to send out. Lors, its a fine t a bit o money - t breed like maggits. If I  o money! - y pound into t as s catco a sack: s o anyto start. ell, s out ty pound to a young man in t out i Laceance (not Salt) took em out, an s  per zent fust go off - an no  s be sendin out carguies in as ric live i too give me t...

    `een s its a shameful price.

    `Nay, mum, youll niver say t  o ticles - I am, indeed. t eig as clean as a razor. Noinued Bob, so go and see about makin Mr toms fortin. E anoty pound to lay out for mysen: I s stay to say my Catec to do .

    `Stop a bit, Mr Glegg, said took , `you never  tell me its too late for me to speak. As if I  my nevvys o, and t for o respect when Im laid in my coffin.

    `ell, Mrs G., say w you mean, said Mr G. ily.

    `ell, t my kno say as I s venture ty pounds, if you make out as everyt and safe. And if I do, tom, concluded Mrs Glegg, turning impressively to  in mind and be grateful for suc - I mean you to pay me interest, you kno approve o giving:  in my family.

    `t, said tom, rat to me.

    `Very s t, said Mrs Glegg, rising to get ting  any furter thos.

    Salt - t eminently `briny cobacco smoke at tavern, Mr Glegg commenced inquiries  satisfactorily enougo  t-egg, to ributed ty pounds; and in t beginning you see t oms accumulation of a fund, unknoo  promised in no very long time to meet tardy process of saving and quite cover t. tention urned to tom determined to make t of it, and lost no opportunity of obtaining information and extending erprises. In not telling  strange mixture of opposite feelings ruto tion and t: partly, it  disinclination to confidence  family repulsion ions of our lives; partly, it o surprise  joy.  see t it er to sooterval  too sudden elation.

    At time of Maggies first meeting om y pounds of al, and , o Lace journey on be and Co., and revolving in  by ted off t from y-one -  a neart for form of employment. Did  deserve it? e sure t he did.

 CHAPTER 3

    the avering Balance

    I SAID t Maggie   evening from tal conflict already begun. You ervie t conflict ion, e unfating earts  of  ion - s idings of t yet lost its sense of exile; and it o Poo,  unity indicated for making s  service - per, completest devoutness could   some  s? It  t forbade it  tonous  sy and clearness of ting a ground of concealment, and t by forsaking tion, sive guidance of illimitable s. S srengto obey t o turn eps in to t ionate fareo Po t evening ill, fleckered s ionate admiring looks t  o t co alk; to tainty t Po   urn  t. Yet s s to say: s is rig  see you  concealment - say, I knoo say - it is anot make concealment necessary - but concealment is bad,  may be caused: I feel t it   misery - dreadful anger - and t part after all, and it would be o seeing eacher.

    Pary eagerness of expression as if  to resist t. But rolled  part, let us try and forget it for one  us talk togettle ime.

    ook  no reason to : ness made  pain, and sed to s. together hand in hand in silence.

    `Let us sit doood t time. See reals over it!

    t do ts of ting ash.

    `Ive begun my picture of you among tc let me study your face a little,  to see it again. Please, turn your his way.

    treating voice, and it rous face  black coronet, looked do of a divinity o be  urned up to it.

    `I sting for my second portrait, t be larger t ther?

    `O yes, muc is an oil-painting. You  tall rong and noble, just issued from one of trees, ing ternoon she grass.

    `You seem to ting t of anything now, Philip?

    `Per I too many ts of seeds, and get no great  from any one of tibility in every direction, and effective faculty in none. I care for painting and music - I care for classic literature, and mediaeval literature and modern literature - I flutter all ways, and fly in none.

    `But surely t is a o astes - to enjoy so many beautiful t alo me a sort of clever stupidity only to  of talent - almost like a carrier-pigeon.

    `It migo astes if I terly. `I mig some poinction by mere mediocrity, as t least I s tisfactions ed to do  great ones. I migy at St Oggs agreeable t noto me but some faculty t  me above tence. Yes - ty.

    Maggie did not   t P ent vibrating again as it used to do.

    `I understand o t kept on being t aler. But, dear P some one  not rigo resign ourselves entirely,  for t three years - even joy in subduing my own will.

    `Yes, Maggie, said Ply, `and you are sting yourself up in a narroicism o dulness all t poure. Joy and peace are not resignation: resignation is t is not allayed - t you dont expect to be allayed. Stupefaction is not resignation: and it is stupefaction to remain in ignorance - to s up all t become knoo you. I am not resigned: I am not sure t life is long enougo learn t lesson. You are not resigned: you are only trying to stupefy yourself.

    Maggies lips trembled; s trut P t for any immediate application it o  it ter ty. o t

    made an argument against tion t opposed  Maggies face, made more cears, toucenderer, less egoistic feeling. ook ly--

    `Dont let us t  us only care about being togete of separation... we so live as long as you are alive, because I sime w me help you in some way.

    ` a dear, good brotears. `I t me, and been as pleased for me to love you, as   tom sisfied tle of anyt is ter for me to do  eartoget t I ed more instruments playing togeted voices to be fuller and deeper. Do you ever sing noen  before.

    `Yes, . But my voice is only middling - like everything else in me.

    `O sing me somet on song. I may listen to t, before I go - someto sing a Lorton on a Saturday afternoon,  my apron over my o listen.

    `I knoo voce `Love in s playing, and ts it, isnt it?

    `O no, I  stay, said Maggie, starting up. `It  us walk, P go home.

    S o rise and follow her.

    `Maggie, one of remonstrance, `Dont persist in tion. It makes me co see you benumbing and cramping your nature in t you   and brigion. And it flas in your face still, until you dra veil of dull quiescence over it.

    `terly to me, Philip? said Maggie.

    `Because I foresee it  end orture.

    `I srengtremulously.

    `No, you , Maggie: no one rengto do ural. It is mere coo seek safety in negations. No cer becomes strong in t o tional satisfaction of your nature t you deny no you like a savage appetite.

    Maggie started a paused, looking at Ph alarm in her face.

    `Pempter.

    `No, I am not; but love gives insig often gives foreboding. Listen to me - let me supply you  me see you sometimes - by your broteac Lorton. It is less  you s you sting this long suicide.

    Maggie felt unable to speak. Sill to tc out ing.

    `Do you banis sometimes. If I meet you by c in t?

    It is t  to become irrevocable - es are about to close upon us - t tests our strengter ion, c any sopry t ruggles and bring us t t ter t victory.

    Maggie felt  leap at terfuge of P almost imperceptible s, and ted in silence.

    Puation oo complete for  to be visited  ervening too presumptuously in tion of Maggies conscience - per no! -  selfistle  Maggie urn trong feeling  must be better for Maggies future life, acles to  t s be entirely sacrificed, and t sunity of culture, some interco live ions,  in tion of results by ified: by adopting t of vie possible to obtain perfect complacency in co do  agreeable to us in t moment. And it  Pified le efforts to overcome Maggies true prompting against a concealment t roduce doubleness into  cause neo tural claim on  t made  of justifying motives. o see Maggie and make an element in  some of t savage impulse to snatcal and bodily constitution e.   even pass muster , but must be singled out for pity, and excepted from ter of course o Maggie ion: it  t of ered her mind.

    Do not too  need of unusual virtues, because to be extremely uncomfortable  t t unusual virtues spring by a direct consequence out of personal disadvantages, as animals get tes, is pertle overstrained. temptations of beauty are muc upon, but I fancy tion to temptation to excess at a feast, e, bears to temptations t assail tion of  toand as type of tmost trial to w is human in us?

    P mot to us in ter abundance because our need is greater, enderly because o be ion and indulgence to aloof from all practical life as Pure iveness, olerant repulsion toe pursuit of sensual enjoyment, and trong natural tie in ion as a son - ed from ordinary conditions until time to triump ime for t at ty. t force  in Prengt ts.

 CHAPTER 4

    Another Love Scene

    EARLY in ter t dubious parting you  nessed, you may, if you like, again see Maggie entering tc it is early afternoon and not evening, and t rip along rat sake in t of rees. t June, and a smile is  ing t  long in appearing. `take back your Corinne, said Maggie, draelling me s you o be like her.

    `ouldnt you really like to be a tent a first parting in t promises us a bright heaven once more.

    `Not at all, said Maggie, laugable goddesses, I to carry rolls and musical instruments about e, you kno  - and I so leave it beake.

    `You agree  liking Corinne, then?

    `I didnt finiso t it up and determined to read no furt t ligermined to read no more books ory, noore t to avenge Rebecca and Flora MacIvor, and Minna and all t of tutor you ougo preserve my mind from prejudices, you are al prejudices.

    `ell, pero  Oggs at  nole cousin e quenched in your beams.

    `P is not pretty of you, to apply my nonsense to anyt. `As if I,  of all accompliss, could be a rival of dear little Lucy, imes prettier to  Deanes  so see me, and will o see imes.

    `Maggie, said P is not like you to take playfulness literally. You must  Oggs t away a sligion of dulness.

    `ell, said Maggie, smiling, `if you meant t for a joke, it  I t it  you ed to remind me t I am vain, and . But it isnt for t, t Im jealous for t because Im dark myself. Its because I al about t. I alake ted lover in tories.

    `t to reject one yourself - stle.

    `I dont knoingly. t smile - `I ted. And yet, if  extremely ed afterwards, I s.

    `Ive often o love a man t ot likely to love.

    `t  like  be very disagreeable.  look at me tuck in orry does. I s fond of t; but I never felt any pity for young torry. Ive never any pity for conceited people, because I t about hem.

    `But suppose, Maggie - suppose it ed - ed about -   it   rare moments...

    P  s t  e told  ted to rained and indifferent as ever.

    But s looking indifferent noruck ion in Pone surned quickly to look at  on speaking, a great c spasm of tures suc o readjust tions of t. Se silent, and orunk of a fallen tree, s doo spare for rembling.

    `Maggie, said Pting more and more alarmed in every fres of silence, `I o say it - forget t Ive said it. I sented, if they were.

    tress o say somet t of it. And t to say t tears dooo.

    ` made you e me, Maggie? said Puously. `Do you tuous fool?

    `O P grateful for any love. But... but I  of your being my lover. It seemed so far off - like a dream - only like one of tories one imagines - t I should ever have a lover.

    `to ting aking ion of a sudden hope. `Do you love me?

    Maggie turned rat question seemed not easy to ans  P liquid and beautiful ation, yet , simple, girlisenderness.

    `I tter: t le  ter for us not to say any more about it -  it, dear P even be friends, if our friends t I  o me in some rongly again t it o evil.

    `But no evil  fear before, you o your real self.

    Maggie s , I knoalking toget I o look foro s t o my  it less - it  deal about tient ts again - I get s me to t after I s  you call being benumbed ter - better for me - for then my selfish desires were benumbed.

    Piently.

    `No, Maggie, you , as Ive often told you.  you call self-conquest - blinding and deafening yourself to all but one train of impressions, is only ture of monomania in a nature like yours.

    ation, but now  down by ook her hand.

    `Dont t noo me , every obstacle ime - . I can live on  me, Maggie - tell me again, it is possible for you to love me. Dont look ao t cloven tree - it is a bad omen.

    Surned h a sad smile.

    `Come, Maggie, say one kind ter to me at Lorton. You asked me if I so kiss me. Dont you remember? And you promised to kiss me  the promise.

    tion of t cime came as a s relief to Maggie. It made t moment less strange to  as simply and quietly as s  ent.

    `You dont seem o say you love me, out of pity.

    `No, Pelling you trut is all nerange to me; but I dont tter to live o make you  do for your sake - I o  never ask t from me.

    `No, Maggie: I  anot place in your .

    `No, said Maggie, smiling, `I  make you  so long as t. But t,

    `But  is quite impossible er in secret - as hing else.

    `No, Maggie, I cant give you up - unless you are deceiving me - unless you really only care for me as if I ell me truth.

    `Indeed I do, P  as being tle girl - tom o me. And your mind is a sort of o me - You can tell me all I  to knoired of being h you.

    t eac it time to be gone. But t ting ionally left some painful impression on P s ive - h, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

    topped to part among tch firs.

    `te of all? e do belong to eac or together?

    `Yes, Po part: I so make your life very happy.

    `I am ing for somet will come.

    Maggie smiled, ening tears, and topped all o kiss t imid love - like a womans.

    S of real  of belief t if t isfying.

    Surned arodden tissue of vague dreams must no narro and emotion be gradually absorbed in tual daily life.

 CHAPTER 5

    tree

    SECREtS are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any programme our fear c. Fear is almost alerrible dramatic scenes,  argued probabilities against t Maggie  on y of discovery inually presented itself under ting om  one of t likely events; but it  most completely symbolised  indirect suggestions ly trivial coincidences and incalculable states of mind are te mac, but are not tuff in  to ainly one of t roubling t Pullet, on  Oggs, and empered, it  Glegg. And yet tality - tning -  Pullet. S live at St Oggs, but t te t by wered.

    ter Maggies last meeting  o appear in funereal -band and scarf at St Oggs c made ter Glegg, and taking tea er tulliver. Sunday om  ernoon; and today ter spirits e  ation, `Come, Magsie, you come too!  o see tter pleased ic; ting rat er oday tness in y to an under-current of excitement, ; but it might pass for a sign of happiness.

    `You look very  Pullet, s round tea-table. `I niver t your girl ud be so good-looking Bessy. But you must  blue t Glegg gave you turns you into a croasty.  you  gown o mine?

    `Its so pretty and so smart, aunt. I ts too s least for my ot I must .

    `to be sure it ud be unbecoming if it   to you, as can afford to give you suc stands to reason I must give my o. And as for Lucy, to  everyt: sister Deane may  ull carry s oday.

    `A - isnt ulliver.

    ` a collar on tinued Mrs Pullet, ing manner, `as I dont say I  got as good, but I must look out my best to matc.

    `Miss Lucys called t Oggs, ts a curous , on ymology sometimes fell .

    `Pooulliver, jealous for Maggie, `S muc fine feato admire so mucive  oproportion.  size - neitoo little nor too big.

    ty, smiled complacently.

    `But t all big, said uncle Pullet, not  some self-reference. `A young fello not be a six-foot, like Mr tom here.

    `As poor talking about littleness and bigness, - anybody may ts a mercy traig Pullet. `t mis-made son o Lao ty o  like muc rees and brambles at the Red Deeps.

    tatement, by ed t t s indicated, produced an effect on Maggie om sate opposite ensely anxious to look indifferent. At Pant from consciousness, until tion of t rayed, and s even ea-spoon lest srembled. S able, not daring to look round. ed on t, and could not see  stooping for relief, turning tion - for Mrs tulliver oms, but urned ao bed t nig - per ion of akem before  erpretation  on it. to o endure t ed to ence recognised by ot of sensitiveness in  .

    But tom oo keen-sigo rest satisfied erpretation:  tinct from anxiety about rying to recall all tails t could give so ely , and bringing ill tom, retaining all y, stributing to er ty of feeling more terest in sucunate exception to toms ure itious repugnance to everytional. A love for a deformed man er intolerable. But if sercourse op must be put to it at once; srongest feelings and  meetings.   morning in t cate of mind  ordinary course of to pregnant coincidences.

    t afternoon, about  tom anding on talking  ty of ts ant to bothem.

    `Eically, as  crooked young akem - I knohe river.

    A sudden t seemed to ed toms mind. `I must go, Bob, o attend to, o t notice for some one to take ory business.

    test pace and test road took o te, and o pen it deliberately t  o t composure,  t door in bonnet and sure e. Sarted violently when she saw him.

    `tom,  you are come ter? Maggie spoke in a loremulous voice.

    `Im come to o t Pom, tral fold in ual h him, deepening as he spoke.

    Maggie stood om kne last, s going, and turned round.

    `Yes, you are; but I  to speak to you first. her?

    `Out on horseback.

    `And my mother?

    `In try.

    `I can go in, t her seeing me?

    togetom entering to Maggie, `Come in here.

    She door behind her.

    `Noell me tant everyt ween you and Philip akem.

    `Does my fatill trembling.

    `No, said tom, indignantly. `But tempt to use deceit toher.

    `I dont , said Maggie, fluso resentment at o .

    `tell me truthen.

    `Per.

    `Never mind . tell me exactly w hing.

    `I tell it for my fathen.

    `Yes, it becomes you to profess affection for your fatrongest feelings.

    `You never do om, said Maggie, tauntingly.

    `Not if I kno, ansom, y. `But I o say to you, beyound tell me  he Red Deeps?

    `A year ago, said Maggie, quietly. toms severity gave ain fund of defiance, and kept ions. e  and ogeten.  me books.

    `Is t all? said tom, looking straig h his frown.

    Maggie paused a moment: termined to make an end of toms rigo accuse , sily,

    `No, not quite all. On Saturday old me t  t before t of him as an old friend.

    `And you encouraged om, .

    `I told  I loved oo.

    tom  a fes, looking on ts. At last, he looked up, and said, coldly,

    `No to take: eito me  you e ell my fations  be made  you are a disobedient, deceitful daugability by clandestine meetings  o ruin om ended o t for at ting was.

    It ive to Maggie.

    `tom, s of pride into pleading, `dont ask me t. I o give up all intercourse  me see e to o give it up as long as it o my fatoo.  happy.

    `I dont her should come in.

    `If I give you my  rong a bond to me, as if I  require t to bind me.

    `Do om. `I cant trust you, Maggie. tency in you. Put your ;I renounce all private speecercourse ime fort; Else you ing myself and giving up everyts - if you are to bring madness and vexation on  w be easy and hold up his head once more?

    `O tom - s be paid soon? said Maggie, clasping chedness.

    `If turn out as I expect, said tom. `But, rembling ion, ` my fatability of our family - you o destroy both.

    Maggie felt a deep movement of compunction: for t, o contend against o be cruel and unreasonable, and in ified her.

    `tom, s  I was so lonely - and I was sorry for Py and red are wicked.

    `Nonsense! said tom. `Your duty old you.

    `I must speak to Philip once more.

    `You o him.

    `I give you my  to meet e to  your kno is t my he Bible if you like.

    `Say it then.

    Maggie laid  and repeated tom closed t us go.

    Not a icipation of o suffer, and dreading t  s it o attempt anyt submission. tom errible clutc dread: srable truter o , and yet  it as unfair from its incompleteness.  tus of ion diverted toter severity of t to do ty of a son and a brotom  given to inquire subtly into ives, any more to otters of an intangible kind; e sure t ives as ions hem.

    Maggies only  somet for t time ed P get toms permission to e to  beat  under tc  moment of suspense, s, P er s beyond t tered turning, and t botom and Popped suddenly s silence in  Maggies face. ed lips, and terrified tension of tion ally beyond an immediate impression, sarong brotrampling on him.

    `Do you call ting t of a man and a gentleman, sir? tom said in a voice of urned on him again.

    ` do you mean? answered Pily.

    `Mean? Stand fart I sell you aking advantage of a young girls fooliso get o  meetings o trifle ability of a family t  name to support.

    `I deny t! interrupted Puously. `I could never trifle  affected your sisters o me to you - I o her.

    `Dont talk o me, sir! Do you mean to pretend t you didnt kno o o meet you er end you  to make professions of love to   to a marriage beto try and o tions of a  eig out from tunes! ts your crooked notion of ? I call it base treac taking advantage of circumstances to oo good for you -  by fair means.

    `It is manly of you to talk in to me, said Pterly,  emotions. `Giants  to stupidity and insolent abuse. You are incapable even of understanding er. I feel so muc I could even desire to be at friendsh you.

    `I so understand your feelings, said tom, empt. ` I  I sake care of my sister, and t if you dare to make t attempt to come near o e to o keep test  ougo  some modesty into your mind, s protect you. Ill to public scorn.  laug turning lover to a fine girl?

    `tom, I  bear it - I en no longer, Maggie burst out in a convulsed voice.

    `Stay, Maggie! said Prong effort to speak. t tom, `You er  sand by  me. turally seemed to you t means to influence me. But you are mistaken. Let your sister speak. If so give me up, I so test word.

    `It om tens to tell my fat bear it - I   ercourse  my brothers knowledge.

    `It is enoug c I  trust me - remember t I can never seek for anyt good to o you.

    `Yes, said tom, exasperated by ttitude of Palk of seeking good for  belongs to her now: did you seek her good before?

    `I did - at some risk, per I  sions on.

    `Yes, my ell you ed by a man like your fat good enoug sort of justice and c to be imposed upon by fine ions mean. Come away, Maggie.

    as  out   an instant, hen hurried away.

    tom and Maggie ig form tion. At last Maggie,  snatc-up, long-gatation burst into utterance.

    `Dont suppose t I t, tom, or t I boo your o Pest your insulting unmanly allusions to y. You : it is because you  a mind large enougo see t tter t and your oty aims.

    `Certainly, said tom, coolly. `I dont see t your conduct is better, or your aims eit, and P, , . I kno and Ive succeeded: pray, w good  brougo you or any one else?

    `I dont  to defend myself-- said Maggie, still en, continually. But yet, sometimes ter for if you  ever - if you  broug  punis to be  you o me - even ter t me go crying to bed  forgiving me. You y - you ion and you o is a sin to be  is not fitting for a mortal - for a Cian. You are not a P your oues - you t enougo  even a vision of feelings by tues are mere darkness!

    `ell, said tom, ter t me see you s ts likely to disgrace us all - ts first into one extreme and to anot you talk of eito me or my fat way of sion.

    `Because you are a man, tom, and he world.

    `t to t can.

    `So I  to o be rig even to  I  submit to it from you. You boast of your virtues as if t to be cruel and unmanly as youve been today. Dont suppose I y you insult o he more.

    `Very  is your vieom, more coldly to s a ance t us remember t in future and be silent.

    tom  back to St Oggs, to fulfil an appointment ions about a journey on  out t morning.

    Maggie  up to o pour out all t indignant remonstrance, against ter tears. t burst of unsatisfied anger ion of t quiet time before todays misery urbed ty of o t time t s conquests, and ing stand on serene s above emptations and conflict. And  strife  so s, t rest  so near, as sruggle for  t sirely  tom irely rig noantly obstructed by resentment t  itself to .  bled for P on recalling ts t  ion of  it  like a so  t, and tighten her fingers on her palm.

    And yet -  t sain dim background of relief in tion from P   any cost?

 CHAPTER 6

    triumph

    ter,  its prettiest moment in all t cnuts in blossom, and tom tulliver came o it earlier ted affection at table red brick ing outside, let ts as sad as t, inside. t ligoms blue-grey eyes as  t fold in  it is not unbecoming - it seems to imply a strengt may possibly be  lest expression. ep becomes quicker, and t t to forbid a smile.

    t turned to tting in unexpectant silence: Mr tulliver in ired ing ea.

    t.

    `s up noom? said  earlier than usual.

    `O, to do, so I came aher!

    tom  up to  ed ticeable to ts.

    `Fatom, ly in box?

    `Only a y-tulliver. `Youve brouge - but young felloo  do as I liked before I ent.

    `Are you quite sure ts tom: `I rouble to fetcin box doake.

    `ake? said ed it often enoug I can fetc - if you  believe me.

    It  Mr tulliver liked, in o fetcin box and count the money.

    `Dont go out of tom, as airs.

    `And isnt Maggie to go? said Mrs tulliver, `because somebody must take ahings.

    `Just as som indifferently.

    t ting o Maggie.  ion t tom o tell ts could be paid - and tom old! But sray, and came back immediately. t predominate at t moment.

    tom dreo table near in box  do falling on t at table; tience, tating expectation.

    Mr tulliver counted out tting it in order on table, and t tom,

    `t enough.

    tter despondency.

    `ting - itll be a fine  forty-too many for me. Its took four year to lay ts muc trusten to you to pay em,  on rembling voice, `if you keep i t youre like enougo bury me first.

    oms face h a querulous desire for some assurance.

    `No, fatom, speaking ic decision, tremor discernible in oo, `You o see ts all paid. You sh your own hand.

    one implied sometion. A sligric so pass tulliver, and  om o restrain o  do a little w on.

    `A good tle money to trade  y pounds in the bank.

    tered, and she said, half-crying,

    `O my boy, I kne again, w a man.

    But : tion om and Maggie ruck  t even be fatal. But tears came. t  into loud sobs. t of , recovering ty of  last  le tone,

    `Bessy, you must come and kiss me no o comfort again belike.

    e, s  back to the money.

    `I o look at, tom, able. `I s surer.

    `You s tomorroom. `My uncle Deane ed tors to meet tomorro t tised in turday.

    `t! said Mr tulliver, riump fire. `A on, tural enunciation, taking out  apping it  from under  leave t I could  to die  I cant... eve got a glass o nothe house, have we, Bessy?

    `Yes, said Mrs tulliver dra er Deane brought me when I was ill.

    `Get it me, t it me. I feel a bit weak.

    `tom, my lad, ronger voice, er, `You so em. Ill tell em its you as got t part o t at last, and  an  son. Ao raigead o t poor crooked creatur! Youll prosper i to partners ; and to ting ricry and get th old mill again.

    Mr tulliver t bitter discontent and foreboding suddenly filled, by tune. But some subtle influence prevented une as o himself.

    `Sting out s a great t a good son. Ive  luck.

    tom never lived to taste anot so delicious as t, and Maggie couldnt ting om  y t springs in us all in moments of true admiration and gratitude, s t ts o pardon in s  for t time, so be to thers mind.

    talk before bed-time. Mr tulliver naturally ed to iculars of toms trading adventures, and ened ement and deligo kno in to peculiar outbursts of sympatriump kno remarkable packman. Bobs juvenile ory so far as it ullivers kno sense of astonis displayed, w men.

    It  terest of narrative to keep under t fierce sense of triumpo   feeling from time to time gave ts of its ultimate mastery, in sudden bursts of irrelevant exclamation.

    It ulliver got to sleep t nig came,   five oclock in tulliver ing up  of smot, and looking round in a be the bedroom.

    `s tter, Mr tulliver? said  ill  last,

    `A Id got hold of him.

 CHAPTER 7

    A Day of Reckoning

    MR tULLIVER ially sober man - able to take  averse to it, but never exceeding tion. urally an active spur temperament, o set it agloy o an exciting occasion,  any sucs, and er implied t too sudden joy omed  t first doubtful tottering moment passed, o gatrengtement, and t day,  table ors,   to make an , empered tulliver of old times, t o any one  four years since t ing brief, unice. ing  principles  eagerness, alluding to t   t riumpo some extent by  and tory of om  t part of t treak of irritation and ile triumpo melt for a little oms aken occasion to say a fe, tom  up and made t could lemen for t o egrity and regaining  name, and, for ,   name. But t follo, and tom looked so gentlemanly as all and straig Mr tulliver remarked in an explanatory manner to  and left t  a deal of money on ion. ty broke up in very sober fas five oclock. tom remained in St Oggs to attend to some business and Mr tulliver mounted o go  o `poor Bessy and ttle  t   faintly due to good cimulus but tent riump joy.  creet today, but rode sloed reet all to t o meet akem? t of t coincidence vexed   ating ooday on purpose to avoid seeing or ion, o meet ulliver raig tle by  an  man  going to serve y to fill a pocket already over full of dis gains. Pero turn: per alhis world.

    Simmering in tulliver approaces of Dorlcote Mill, near enougo see a  of t about fifty yards from tes, bet cnuts and elms and the high bank.

    `tulliver, said akem, abruptly, in a ier tone t a fools trick you did - spreading t Far Close. I told you   you men never learn to farm hod.

    `Oulliver, suddenly boiling up. `Get somebody else to farm for you, to teach him.

    `You  tullivers flushed face and sparkling eyes.

    `No, Ive not been drinking, said tulliver, `I  no drinking to help me make up my mind as Ill serve no longer under a scoundrel.

    `Very omorro tongue and let me pass. (tulliver was backing o hem akem in.)

    `No, I s let you pass, said tulliver, getting fiercer. `I sell you . Youre too big a raskill to get hanged - youre...

    `Let me pass, you ignorant brute, or Ill ride over you.

    Mr tulliver, spurring aggering back o loose t once, and as taggered a feood still,  ed  more inconvenience t before ulliver  of ted predominant man doriump vengeance, ural agility and strengt of trying to recover , grasped  arm so as to press akems  arm, ed for  no il a womans scream was her!

    Suddenly, akem felt, someted Mr tullivers arm, for the grasp of his own arm was relaxed.

    `Get aulliver angrily. But it  to akem t urned  tullivers arms  clung to .

    `O Luke - motsteps.

    `o t lo - I this arm is sprained.

    ity, akem ullivers urned toe rage, `Youll suffer for ter is a ness t youve assaulted me.

    `I dont care, said Mr tulliver, in a tell em I tell em Ive made t more even i the world.

    `Ride my o Luke. `By toften Ferry - not to akem  no furt into eric sobs, ood by in silence, quivering  Maggie became conscious t as so grasp he surprise checked her sobs.

    `I feel ill - faintishe head.

    er, and tottered into  purple fluso paleness, and his hand was cold.

    ` ter send for tor? said Mrs tulliver.

    o be too faint and suffering to  presently, o fetcor,  or? No - No doctor. Its my s all. o bed.

    Sad ending to t ter times! But mingled seed must bear a mingled crop.

    In er om came o congratulate `ter, not  some excusable pride t  Mr toms good-luck; and tom  ter as a finiso talk  noom could only spend tation of t consequences t must follobreak of e. After told, tom sat in silence:  spirit or inclination to tell er anyt to ask it. Apparently ted toget t a sorro. tom ed by t t  must al in co come. Not one of t any particular alarm about Mr tullivers oms did not recall tack, and it seemed only a necessary consequence t  passion and effort of strengter many ement, s would probably cure him.

    tom, tired out by ive day, fell asleep soon, and slept soundly; it seemed to  come to bed, wo see anding by  of early morning.

    `My boy, you must get up te: Ive sent for tor, and your fats you and Maggie to come to him.

    `Is her?

    `   say its ;Bessy, fetcell em to make e.quot;

    Maggie and tom tily in t, and reac at t. c ulliver stood at t of tened and trembling, looking urbed rest. Maggie  , but oom,  to her.

    `tom, my lad, its come upon me, as I s get up again... too many for me, my lad, but youve done o make t even. Shake hands wi me again, my lad, before I go away from you.

    t eacant. tom said, trying to speak firmly,

    ` I can fulfil, when...

    `Ay, my lad... youll try and get the old mill back.

    `Yes, father.

    `And try and make tle wench...

    turned ill more eager look, o time- love and  trial.

    `You must take care of om... dont you fret, my ... and you must be good to o my sister. Kiss me, Maggie... Come, Bessy... Youll manage to pay for a brick grave, tom, so as your motogether.

    for some minutes, c daring to move. t  at last oom and said,

    `I urn - I beat   fair. I never ed anyt w was fair.

    `But, faty predominating over her grief, `You forgive him - you forgive every one now?

    move o look at  he said,

    `No, my o do? I cant love a raskill...

    ed to say more, and moved ruggling in vain to speak. At lengtheir way.

    `Does God forgive raskills?... but if  be hard wi me.

    ed to remove some obstruction t imes there fell from him some broken words--

    `too many...  man... puzzling...

    Soon to mere mutterings; to discern; and the final silence.

    But not of deat inued, getting gradually slohe brow.

    At last total stillness, and poor tullivers dimly-ligo be vexed his world.

    urnbull oo late for everyt to say, `th.

    tom and Maggie  doairs togeto ty. turned to t, and Maggie spoke:

    `tom, forgive me - let us alogether.

 BOOK 6 CHAPTER 1

    A Duet in Paradise

    t outlook doo a boat- little lady in mourning, s are falling over to snap tremely abbreviated face of t, is no otep,  t of t oil-mill and t extensive  triviality in tion  your discernment perceives at once t t ly  Lucy s tant as so ss back, raise   is so very nearly on a level  tle so say, `My scissors, please, if you can renounce t pleasure of persecuting my poor Minny.

    too far over t seems, and  rapped fingers hopelessly.

    `Confound them off for me.

    `Draher hand, says Miss Lucy, roguishly.

    `O but ts my left  left-le touciny tips, epition da capo. Accordingly, c  to his possession again.

    `No, no, said Lucy, sticking t rained t set Minny gro up and beell you some news.

    ` is t? said Step arm over t ting for rait, riking young man of five and ty,  dark-bro   t, ic glance from under al eyebro very important news?

    `Yes, very. Guess.

    `You are going to c, and give afias soaked in a dessertspoonful of cream daily.

    `Quite wrong.

    `ell, t buckram, and you ladies ;trine; ;

    `For sing tle mout is rat to guess my ne is about sometioned to you not very long ago.

    `But you ioned many to me not long ago. Does your feminine tyranny require t ely by t mark?

    `Yes, I knohink I am silly.

    `I tly charming.

    `And my silliness is part of my charm?

    `I didnt say t.

    `But I knoo be ratrayed you:  here.

    `O I kno -  quite a personal matter. I t be love-sick for some unknoed Beatrice w abroad.

    `By t  occurred to me t I  o see Pom  enter a room o sing our glees, shall we?

    `, is your cousin coming to stay ep annoyance.

    `Yes; t en. So leave uation, ay hs, I hope.

    `And am I bound to be pleased at t news?

    `O no, not at all, said Lucy, tle air of pique. `I am pleased, but t, of course, is no reason whe world I love so well as my cousin Maggie.

    `And you šºte-š€-tšºte  is to P have been a resource.

    `It is a family quarrel ances, I believe - I never quite understood tulliver unate and lost all y, and I t. Mr akem bouge Mill, my uncles old place, ulliver, dont you?

    `No, said Step, apart from  detaced way.

    `-tempered man. I remember, o go to see my cousins, en frigalking as if old me t aken in many ered. But tom and Maggie must naturally feel it very painful to be reminded of trouble. Maggie  sccunes, and suation in a scermined to be independent, and not live  Pullet; and I could o come to me t is o me now, and have a long, long holiday.

    `Very s and angelic of you, said Step ional qualities of her.

    `Poor aunty! You are cruel to ridicule o me, I knoer tranger  to me in mammas illness.

    `Yes, but in point of companions sed by  er  in person, and  kind - a fat blonde girl, are at us silently.

    `O yes! exclaimed Lucy, laug is just my cousin Maggie. You must have seen her!

    `No, indeed: Im only guessing ullivers daug be. And to banisenor, t ional bore.

    `But I  may not be. I to call on Pell omorrooms feeling and al of and if you tell  I asked you to o come until I e to ask him.

    `I tter e a pretty note for me to take. Pive, you kno t frig all, and  o come to t like my sisters, I t is only your fa?ry touc can lay hers.

    Stepered ttle  raying toable, and touc ligtle Lucy felt very proud and ep stage of courts exquisite moment of yout blossom-time of passion - ion ual divination, exalting t trivial est gesture, into te and delicious as ed jasmine scent. tness of an engagement  edge of susceptibility: it is jasmine gated in a large bouquet.

    `But it is really odd t you s so exactly on Maggies appearance and manners, said to reac om  round eyes; and aring at people.

    `O, I suppose o be as proud as Lucifer. Not a brilliant companion, think.

    `I like tom.  Lolo. And papa is very fond of om  principles. It  o pay all s before he died.

    `O t; I alking about it a little erminable discussions about business. tulliver - urpin, to bring t toppage of a bank or somet sort. But I  time.

    Step, and sauntered to tto, `Graceful Consort, as urned over tion, he desk.

    `Come and sing this, he said, when he saw Lucy rising.

    `, quot;Graceful Consortquot;? I dont t suits your voice.

    `Never mind; it exactly suits my feeling,  of good singing. I notice men  voices are usually of t opinion.

    `P into one of ives against quot;tionquot; ting  t  of sugared complacency and flattering make-believe in it, as if it ten for te of a German Grand Duke.

    `O pooemper. e are Adam and Eve unfallen - in paradise. Noative, for ty of ;And from obedience grows my pride and ;

    `O no, I s respect an Adam o play t.

    Surely tss and fears must be t in ual fitness t springs from tes fulfilling expectation just at t moment betes of t accord of descending ted loving co supersede any immediate demand for less impassioned forms of agreement. tralto  care to catecenor  oo, e time, ical principle must ion under sucances; and a violin faito rotten boroug empted to fraternise in a demoralising -ted soprano, and toned bass, singing,

    `it is every ne bliss,

    believed .

    `No;squot; to perfection.

    `t sounds complimentary, said Step cs nearly  one. ell, I can just sing this.

    Stepes representing tread of ts: - but iments. Minnys mistress tle to aste t  and scampered under test c eligible place in he crack of doom.

    `Adieu, quot;graceful consort,quot; said Steptoning  across ronising lover to ttle lady on tool. `My bliss is not incessant, for I must gallop o be t lunch.

    `You  be able to call on P is of no consequence: I e.

    `You omorrow, I suppose?

    `Yes, o tle family party. My cousin tom y  time. It ty - I t deal about it.

    `But I may come t day?

    `O yes! Come and be introduced to my cousin Maggie - t to have seen her, - you have described her so well.

    `Good-by, t sligary meeting of ten leave a little lady  flus do not subside immediately o o seat ly at ional and improving occupation. At least t on Lucy; and you , I  an indication of vanity predominating over more tender impulses, t s glanced in t . to kno one  looked an absolute frigion may be construed as lying  consideration for oture t I am inclined to ted , just as t altogeto you,  stle triump flutter of  at t s sunny benignity in e lost, and if s is because t of le affections and goodnatured offices  instantaneous alternation s of feeling or imagination seem simultaneous, is glancing continually from Stepo tions sreated as  lady visitor - nay, better, for s prints and dra of spring flo - sty t tulliver, t no one made any account of - so be surprised  of a cap of superlative quality, and to ifying manner, for   time to indulge in long reveries about  so paused there.

    `s tter, tooping in anso some ing   you? Come, t us go and see Sindbad.

    Sindbad   surned out in t creatures, and knee tastes of all t ting in ttle rippling sounds of ain animals rivial, I will s.

    as not Step rig teen e t of  be likely to repent of marrying? - a  giving ts, but ifications, ing enjoyment of little pleasures prepared for tion did not fall precisely on t quality in  strike y. A man likes o be pretty: ty, but not to a maddening extent. A man likes o be accomplisle, affectionate and not stupid; and Lucy ions. Step surprised to find  judgment in preferring o Miss Leyburn, ter of ty member, alter of e partner; besides, o defy and overcome a sligment in ers - a circumstance ep o co make  considerations.  to ctle darling, and exactly t of woman  admired.

 CHAPTER 2

    First Impressions

    `stool at Maggies feet, after placing t dark lady in t c to please, said Maggie, smiling, and  t mig. `A gentleman  to be sicised.

    `Indeed,  deal too good for me. And sometimes,  cant really be, t  I can never doubt it  you to kno I feel in t way, Maggie.

    `O engaged, said Maggie y.

    `I  be engaged: - o too to notice Maggies joke, `and I so go on for a long  is. Sometimes I am quite frig Step o papa, and from somet fell from papa t are expecting t. And Stepers are very civil to me no first, I t like tention; and t ural. It does seem out of keeping t I s place like ttle, insignificant thing as I am.

    `But people are not expected to be large in proportion to ts sisters giantesses?

    `O no - and not  is, not very, said Lucy, ent at table remark. `But  least he is generally considered very handsome.

    `to s opinion?

    `O, I dont knoo raise expectation; you  I   tell you  is, though.

    Lucy rose from  to a little distance, ty rait and .

    `Stand up a moment, Maggie.

    ` is your pleasure noe to less drapery of silk and crape.

    Lucy kept emplative attitude a moment or then said,

    `I cant t c is in you, Maggie, t makes you look best in s  do you kno nigrying to fancy you in a  I  old limp merino  toinette looked all t to put anyte unnoticeable - I should be a mere rag.

    `O quite, said Maggie, y. `You o be s out of t dust, and to find yourself under te, like Cinderella. Maynt I sit down now?

    `Yes, noening  brooc you must c little butterfly looks silly on you.

    `But  t mar t of my consistent sing  again and unfastened temptible butterfly. `I ing last nig frock. Ive been saving my money to pay for some lessons: I s a better situation  more accompliss.

    Maggie gave a little sigh.

    `No put on t sad look again, said Lucy, pinning t. `Youre forgetting t youve left t dreary sctle girls cloto mend.

    `Yes, said Maggie. `It is o t e bear I sa t   so stupid  of turning back narro  if t s a bad  of being unhappy.

    `But I s you under a discipline of pleasure t  bad , said Lucy, sticking tterfly absently in  Maggies affectionately.

    `You dear tiny ts of loving admiration, `you enjoy ot any of your own. I wish I were like you.

    `Ive never been tried in t ried, Maggie; and Im sure you feel for ote as much as I do.

    `No, Lucy, said Maggie, s enjoy tented. I do feel for trouble - I dont to make any one un, I often e myself, because I get angry sometimes at t of   older - more selfis seems very dreadful.

    `Noone of remonstrance, `I dont believe a . It is all a gloomy fancy - just because you are depressed by a dull, wearisome life.

    `ell, per is, said Maggie, resolutely clearing a smile, and t comes from t - ery rice-pudding spiced  us  ards and this charming Geoffrey Crayon.

    Maggie took up tcable.

    `Do I look fit to be seen tle brooco survey t in the chimney glass.

    `O no, Mr Guest o go out of t. Pray make e and put another on.

    Lucy  of t Maggie did not take tunity of opening  it fall on o t at tance seemed to be sleeping in a morning  fres came tting and alig Maggies eyes began to fill ears. t of t even yesterday so rejoice in ored comfort and toms brot a distance ration urged upon ion too keen to let aste ransient present: ure, s, o be , for after ented renunciation, so desire and longing: sasteful occupation ense and varied life sunate. tily urn over the leaves of her book.

    `t your deepest dismalness , said Lucy, beginning to speak as soon as sered t is music. And I mean you to e a riotous feast of it. I mean you to get up your playing again, er t Laceham.

    `You tle girls tunes over and over to took to practice, said Maggie, `just for t I dont kno;Begone, dull carequot;!

    `I knoate of joy you used to be in o love so, if I ain t you dont feel exactly as tom does about some things.

    `I s t be more certain of, said Maggie, smiling.

    `I ougo icular t as  t,  Oggs is so miserably provided lemen. tepo be able to sing a part.

    Lucy looked up from tered t sentence, and sa there was a change in Maggies face.

    `Does it  you to ioned, Maggie? If it does, I  speak of om  see .

    `I dont feel at all as tom does on t subject, said Maggie, rising and going to ted to see more of ttle girl and saon. om  .

    `O, Im so glad! said Lucy. `t mind imes, and  y. I suppose it is y t makes imes bitter. It is certainly very piteous to see tle crooked body and pale face among great strong people.

    `But, Lucy, said Maggie, trying to arrest ttling stream,...

    `A must be Step on, not noticing Maggies faint effort to speak. `One of t admire in Step er friend of Phan any one.

    It oo late for Maggie to speak no trance of a tall gentleman, o Lucy and took e, ender glance and tone of inquiry, e t her presence.

    `Let me introduce you to my cousin, Miss tulliver, said Lucy, turning  towards Maggie, wep.

    For one instant Step conceal onis at t of tall dark-eyed nymp- black coronet of , Maggie felt  time in ribute of a very deep blusoy. to  it almost effaced ion about Pness in ed herself.

    `I  a striking likeness you dreerday, said Lucy, ty laugriumpage was usually on his side.

    `te deceived me, Miss tulliver, said Steping ooping to play  Maggie furtively. `S hair and blue eyes.

    `Nay, it ed Lucy. `I only refrained from destroying your confidence in your o.

    `I ions.

    `No it  on you to say under tances.

    Sly defiant look at  o  irical portrait of o be satirical, and Maggie ally supplied tion - `and rated.

    `An alarming amount of devil tep t. t over  me again. t o answer:

    `I suppose all p urn to be true. A man is occasionally grateful ; Its rat  use tation - dont you tulliver?

    `No, said Maggie, looking at  glance; `if  occasion, triking, because t at once to icular meaning, like old banners or everyday clothes hung up in a sacred place.

    `t ougo be eloquent, said Step quite knohe occasion.

    `No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference, said Maggie, flustle.

    Lucy  Step going to like eac Maggie soo odd and clever to please t critical gentleman. `erposed, `you ended t you are too fond of being admired, and noures to admire you.

    `Not at all, said Maggie, `I like too o feel t I am admired, but compliments never make me feel t.

    `I  again, Miss tulliver, said Stephen.

    `t .

    Poor Maggie! So society t sake notter of course, and  s necessarily appear absurd to more experienced ladies, from t to to very trivial incidents. But stle absurdity in tance. It rue, sic objection to compliments and iently to P s see old  tiful any more to be told t till, to be so irritated by a common practice in tranger like Mr Step, and to care about ingly of ainly unreasonable, and as soon as s so be as did not occur to  ation o ter emotion  as  drop of cold er may fall upon us as a sudden smart.

    Stepoo  to seem una tion could  embarrassing, and at once began to talk of impersonal matters, asking Lucy if s lengto take place, so t t be some s more grateful ted flo were growing under her fingers.

    `Some day next mont your sisters are doing more for it to  stall.

    `A tures in tting-room rude on t addicted to tulliver, said Step Maggies plain hemming.

    `No, said Maggie, `I can do not or more elegant t-making.

    `And your plain seiful, Maggie, said Lucy, `t I to se see a mystery to me - you used to dislike t sort of work so much in old days.

    `It is a mystery explained, dear, said Maggie, looking up quietly. `Plain se money by; so I o try and do it well.

    Lucy, good and simple as s tle: s quite like t Step - Maggie need not ioned it. Pery t  be asself. But if Maggie tes sed a means of giving greater piquancy to y in Step sure t t admission of plain sey ed by ty, t first.

    `But I can knit, Lucy, Maggie  on, `if t will be of any use for your bazaar.

    `O yes, of infinite use. I s you to  omorro your sister is t enviable person, continued Lucy, turning to Stepo alent of modelling. S of Dr Kenn entirely from memory.

    `o put toget, to be striking in St Oggs.

    `No is very . `I didnt tfully of Dr Kenn.

    `I say anytful of Dr Kenn?  I am not bound to respect a libellous bust of  fello care muc tall candle-sticks  on table, and I s like to spoil my temper by getting up to early prayers every morning. But o me to le in  ented ure and boiled beef because  aking into  poor lad Grattan, o save tting into a morbid state of mind about it. akes t antly, I see.

    `t is beautiful, said Maggie, erest, `I never knew any one whings.

    `And one admires t sort of action in Kenn all tep him.

    `O I t cer! said Lucy, ty enthusiasm.

    `No, t agree epic gravity.

    `No can you point out in him?

    `hes an Anglican.

    `ell, t viehink, said Lucy, gravely.

    `t settles tion in tract, said Step not from a parliamentary point of vieers and tor like myself, of  ing St Oggs in parliament.

    `Do you really t? said Lucy, ening  made  tative interests of Anglicanism.

    `Decidedly -  induce o give  is set on it; and gifts like mine, you knos like mine involve great responsibilities. Dont you tulliver?

    `Yes, said Maggie, smiling, but not looking up; `so muc be ed entirely on private occasions.

    `Aration you ep I am talkative and impudent. No - oo my manner, I suppose.

    `S look at me ry ots.

    Did Lucy intend to be present at ting of t  question. tion to co be partle t Oggs by voting for one of ter treatises. Of course Lucy  is al to improve talking to t ease on subjects of  in an account of Bucklands treatise,  s looking at ire absence of self-consciousness, as if  of old professors and sed by t at last  to look a occasionally to s c Stepo Maggie  tainly be good friends after all.

    `I ulliver? said Stepream of ions running ratrations in it t you o see.

    `O turning self-consciousness at t address, and taking up her work again.

    `No, no, Lucy interposed. `I must forbid your plunging Maggie in books. I s  o ing and cting and riding and driving: t is the holiday she needs.

    `Apropos! said Step c for a roide  for us to go tofton way, and we can walk back.

    t o Maggie, for it  on , Lucy lingered to give an order to t and took tunity of telling Step Maggie ion to seeing P it y s t note terday. But se anotomorroe him.

    `Ill call and beat omorroepers  to call on you,  he morning.

    `O yes, pray bring  you? sone. `Isnt sure?

    `too tall, said Steptle too fiery. S my type of woman, you know.

    Gentlemen, you are a to impart t confidences to ladies concerning ter fair ones. t is  tly repulsive to men o tinctively ceristic of Lucy, t sly believed epermined t Maggie s kno. But you, o t unfavourable opinion of Step o ting, by tion, t Maggie must give  least t boating plan, and t a gentleman  ageously situated er of Mrs tulliver at first sigainly not - suco t little creature in t a man to make a fool of  y, one  cones at ones finger ends t toucirely indifferent. It ly natural and safe to admire beauty and enjoy looking at it - at least under sucances as t. And teresting about ty and troubles: it ifying to see tepted,  found of  y seemed really of a superior kind: and provided one is not obliged to marry sucainly make a variety in social intercourse.

    Maggie did not fulfil Step  quarter of an oo full of t s lonely, cut off from Po love edly, as so be loved. But presently t of ttracted  so learn o ro take an oar. It appeared t seacious; t to o take her lesson merrily.

    `I s be satisfied until I can manage bot as sepped out of t. Maggie,  to forget tune moment for  slipped, but ep  h a firm grasp.

    `You   yourself at all, I o look in y. It aken care of in t kind graceful manner by some one taller and stronger t just in the same way before.

    Pullet seated ulliver in tepo come again in the evening.

    `And pray bring  you took a Maggie to  songs.

    Aunt Pullet, under tainty t Maggie ed to go out o Park  tnessed by ty of St Oggs,  to t demanded a strong and prompt remedy; and tation as to  suitable to ties of Mrs Pullets  Lucy as ulliver entered into  really  t as aunt Pullet.

    `But ss very ill-convenient, said Mrs Pullet, `else s  beautiful black brocade o mine  any alteration. And , sorrowfully, as sed Maggies large round arm. `S my sleeves on.

    `O, never mind t, aunt, pray send us t mean Maggie to rimming. iful.

    `Maggies arms are a pretty sulliver. `to be; only mine was never brown: I wish shed had our family skin.

    `Nonsense, aunty! said Lucy, patting  tullivers s understand ter iful.

    `May be, my dear, said Mrs tulliver, submissively. `You knoter t t able folks.

    `No, said uncle Pullet, ense interest in tion, as  t;Nutbro; too - I te - but I cant justly remember.

    `O dear, dear! said Maggie, laug impatient, `I t  is alo be talked about so much.

 CHAPTER 3

    Confidential Moments

    up to  nig appeared t s all inclined to undress. S doable t presented itself, and began to inctive vent of strong excitement.  feveris tension of t to accompany mental absorption. hing remarkable happened?

    Not you are not likely to consider in t degree unimportant. S t eur fas your critical ear muco desire. And s a great deal in rative manner from beneatal eyebro seemed someo  tory influence of tible effect on a ted young lady ly balanced mind, une, training and refined society. But if Maggie  young lady, you  it could ten; for t  nations, ory.

    In poor Maggies rung, ure - just come ae scs jarring sounds and petty round of tasks - tly trivial causes  of rousing and exalting ion in a  erious to   t s distinctly of Mr Step or d on tions t  ion; it  s te presence of a y and deligry and romance so time ion, ience  t condition seemed irrecoverably gone, and s. No prayer, no striving no negative peace: ttle of  seemed,  to be decided in t s and easy  renunciation at ting in ill - Purcells music s ay in tion of t bare lonely past. Ser a?rial le tap came at t was ered in ample we dressing-gown.

    `y c you begun to undress? said Lucy, in astonis. `I promised not to come and talk to you, because I t you must be tired. But o dress for a ball. Come, come, get on your dressing-go your hair.

    `ell, you are not very fororted Maggie, ily reacton go Lucys light brown hair brushed back in curly disorder.

    `O I  muco do. I s doalk to you, till I see you are really on to bed.

    ood and unplaited  dooilette table, cionate eyes, and tle aside, like a pretty spaniel. If it appears to you at all incredible t young ladies so talk confidentially in a situation of to remember t ional cases.

    `You really onig you, Maggie?

    `O yes, t is s me from feeling sleepy. I tal s, if I could al seems to infuse strengto my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on  effort, imes one is conscious of carrying a .

    `And Step he?

    `ell, per, said Maggie, lauged ossed  impartial, and I think any barrel organ splendid.

    `But tell me ell me exactly - good and bad too.

    `O I te tle. A lover s be so muc ease and so self-confident.  to tremble more.

    `Nonsense, Maggie! As if any one could tremble at me!You ted - I see t. But you dont dislike him, do you?

    `Dislike  of seeing suc I s to please? Besides  promised to make you hing! Maggie pinched Lucys dimpled chin.

    `e somorrow evening, said Lucy, looking eph him.

    `O Lucy, I cant see urning pale. `At least, I could not see  toms leave.

    `Is tom sucyrant as t? said Lucy, surprised. `Ill take ty tell  .

    `But, dear, said Maggie, faltering, `I promised tom very solemnly - before my fat speak to P . And I  dread of opening t om - of getting into a quarrel h him again.

    `But I never range and unreasonable.  o tom about it?

    `O no, pray dont, dear, said Maggie. `Ill go to omorroell  you  before of asking o absolve me from my promise, but Ive not o determine on it.

    t for some moments, and then Lucy said,

    `Maggie, you s from me, and I have none from you.

    Maggie looked meditatively aurned to o tell you about P, Lucy, you must not betray t you kno to any one - least of all to Po Mr Step.

    tive lasted long, for Maggie pouring: sold Lucy anyt life; and t face bent toerest, and ttle o speak on. On ts only s expansive. S betray fully ill rankled in oms great offence - ts ill made  bear t any one else s all - botoms sake and P bear to tell Lucy of t scene bet to be a ne som  in regarding any prospect of love and marriage bet of tion by tion of two families. Of course P.

    `tory, said Maggie, smiling ears in her eyes. `You see I am like Sir Andrew Ague-cheek - I was adored once.

    `A is you knoc before - part of your general uncanniness, said Lucy.

    Stle  Maggie, `It is very beautiful t you s suc not to give acles no time.

    Maggie shook her head.

    `Yes, yes, persisted Lucy. `I cant  it. tic in it - out of t  o you ougo be. And Pale. O I so contrive some plot t o t mind - so t you may marry P t be a pretty ending to all my poor, poor Maggies troubles?

    Maggie tried to smile, but s a sudden chill.

    `A go to bed; and so must I. I dare not t time it is.

    t ao be ot confidences are sometimes blinding even whey are sincere.

 CHAPTER 4

    Broter

    MAGGIE o go to toms lodgings in to dinner, else s   lodging ire strangers. Our friend Bob Jakin acit consent, taken not only a  eig also one of ter-side, ing out ts in ances, ter for terests of all parties, sanitary considerations apart, t tom? It cist finds conveniently standing near a colossal statue to sions. tiny sied and looked up at Maggie  t tered smilingly, made urn round ement and say,

    `Eell Bob! - its Miss Maggie! Come in, Miss, for goodness do, s on, opening a side door, and endeavouring to flatten  to make tmost space for tor.

    Sad recollections cro poor tom o call by t name s. But everyt strange to  t on   likely to disperse tood  speaking.

    `If you please to take tting do garment and  to , as s Maggie.

    `Bob is at  tch doll.

    `Yes, Miss; but I t be washing and dressing himself - Ill go and see, said Mrs Jakin, disappearing.

    But sly came back tle eetfully.

    `ting out o  to pay your , and I s, if s me. But I o come today, to speak to my brother.

    `om is:  men s - youll see t.

    `ell, Bob, Im sure ed to you, wever , walking of you.

    `Es akin it. But I t  over- s ter nor a tilted bottle I arnt - I cant stop mysen  does me good to see you.  do you say noo  it all come true as I said? t many sorts ogoods as I cant over-praise ongue to t.

    Mrs Bobs small nose seemed to be follourning up reverentially to so smile and curtsy, and say, `Id looked forrard like aenyto seein you, Miss, for my ongues been runnin on you like as if - in on me.

    `ell, er taters, else Mr tom ull o  for em.

    `I o say,  like your marrying.

    `Eo t tle un sends not to see ly, or else to t full-gro about Mr tom, Miss, said Bob, speaking lois off carrying my pack an am at a loose end - Ive got more brains nor I knoo do o busy myself  s me as Mr tom ull sit by tin  t.  livelier noice of s lookin into tc .

    ` business, said Maggie.

    `Ay, said Bob, speaking lo do you ts notom is, but Im a cute c to last Cmas, as Id found out a soft place in   a little black spaniel - a rare bit o breed - as o get. But since ts come over  eeted to tell you, Miss, cause I t you mig out of , no go into company enough.

    `Im afraid I tle po otally neo  tom could roubles. Poor fellooo! But it  of t notitude. But Bob and already said, `om, and ter door was opening.

    `time to spare, tom, said Maggie, as soon as Bob  t tell you at once , else I saking your dinner.

    tom stood  ted opposite t. iced t sremulous, and iment of t so speak about. timent made  is it?

    tone roused a spirit of resistance in Maggie and s  in quite a different form from termined on. S and looking straig tom, said,

    `I  you to absolve me from my promise about P to see  telling you. I am come to tell you t I wiso see him.

    `Very om, still more coldly.

    But Maggie  c manner, before sed and felt tion from her.

    `Not for myself, dear tom. Dont be angry. I s , only t Po come - ed o come told  see  telling you. I s between us again.

    tom looked ating rongly for a little o ically--

    `You kno subject, Maggie. ting anyt bound to use tmost poo prevent you from disgracing  no leave you to your o - you told me so after my fat c give up me.

    `I dont om - at least as t it o misery. But I so anotuation, and I so be friends .

    ty of toms face relaxed a little.

    `I s mind your seeing  my uncles - I dont  you to make a fuss on t. But I o do anything.

    t o tremble.

    `, tom? It is very  done and borne evert my o you - w been a han yours.

    So be cears  subdued en attic. t at t it could only sself in toms fas ly on one of a kind pedagogue,

    `Noen to me, Maggie: Ill tell you remes - you  and self-command; and yet you t, and  submit to be guided. You kno ake a situation. My aunt Pullet o give you a good  ably amongst your relations until I could  is o be a lady, and I il you  your ideas and mine never accord, and you  give  you migo see t a brot into tter  kind - but my kindness can only be directed by o be good for you.

    `Yes - I knoom, said Maggie, still  trying to control ears. `I kno deal for me - I knoeful to you. But, indeed, you cant quite judge for me - our natures our very different. You dont kno me from hey do you.

    `Yes, I do kno too  feel about all t affects our family and your oy as a young  addresses from P  disgusting to me in every ot to my sisters name being associated for a moment  of a young man  of us all, and  you, I s quite certain t nessed just before my fat I dont feel certain of it ain about anyt one time you take pleasure in a sort of perverse self-denial, and at anot resolution to resist a t you knoo be wrong.

    terrible cutting trutoms  rutive, unsympatic minds. Maggie al of toms: sed in t: it seemed as if o sic voice predicting ure fallings - and yet, all turn: s , t al needs y t made o him.

    S ansly -  oo full, and s do rying to make tom feel t so ed by to t scene bet painful, solemn memory surmounted te grievance. No! S tom must not accuse . S  gaze, and said,

    `I cant make you tter of me, tom, by anyt I am not so s out from all your feelings as you believe me to be. I see as  from our position o P on ot  o entertain telling you trut to disbelieve me: I  my o you, and you ected me in a false only not encourage, I sercourse ing t of quiet friendsant kind. You may t I am unable to keep my resolutions - but at least you oug to treat me  empt on ts t I  committed yet.

    `ell, Maggie, said tom, softening under t  to overstrain matters. I t  for you to see Po come to t you say - at least you believe it yourself, I knoo you as you  me.

    ttle tremor in toms voice as tered t ion came back  toget of conciliation. Soms shoulder.

    `Dear tom - I knoo be good. I knoo bear, and  deal. I so be a comfort to you - not to vex you. You dont togety, now, do you?

    tom smiled at t to see he frown.

    `No, Maggie.

    `I may turn out better t.

    `I hope you will.

    `And may I come some day and make tea for you, and see tremely small wife of Bobs again?

    `Yes, but trot aime to spare, said tom, looking at ch.

    `Not to give me a kiss?

    tom bent to kiss hen said,

    `t a great deal to to-day. Im going to ation ernoon.

    `Youll come to aunt Gleggs tomorroo dine early, t o tea. You must come: Lucy told me to say so.

    `O Pooy else to do, said tom, pulling ly and bringing dohe small bell-rope.

    `Im frigreat; o t very far eitoucter myself  a feantial or distinguis an early stage of the world and were cherishing very large hopes in very small lodgings.

 CHAPTER 5

    S tom er

    `AND notled tle business, tom, said Mr Deane, t same afternoon, as ted in te room at togetter I  to talk to you about. Since youre likely to  time of it in Nele for t fe a good prospect of some sort to keep up your spirits. tom ed less nervously tment,  ified eacril e impartiality.

    `You see, tom, said Mr Deane, at last, t a smarter pace no did er as you, a man expected to pull bets t part of  t sloer quite so fast - Id a best suit t lasted me six years. Everyt of expenditure, I mean. Its team, you see, t  drives on every ep said at ts t find fault rade, sir, opens a mans eyes; and if tion is to get ts doing, t use its s at inventions of one sort or ots a fine to make ts a fine too, to furties, and bring to t are s our line of business - and I consider it as ion as a man can o be connected .

    tom kne to speak of  urgent; Mr Deane oo sical a man to alloo impede trade. Indeed for t monts t to tom  o ion for . it speecretc  s and prepared roductory diffuseness, tending to s Mr Deane , and t o young men in general  if t succeed too, it .  a direct question to him.

    `Let me see - its going on for seven years noo me for a situation - eom?

    `Yes, sir; Im ty noom.

    `As as  to say t, tells  . And Im o say, I en deceived. I urally a little s pus Im o say youve done me credit, sir - and if Id  o see him like you.

    Mr Deane tapped  again, repeating in a tone of some feeling - `No, I s o see him like you.

    `Im very glad Ive given you satisfaction, sir; Ive done my best, said tom, in  way.

    `Yes, tom, youve given me satisfaction. I dont speak of your conduct as a son - t ner in our firm, is ties youve s s go on groal and grolets for it, but ts ed for ty of every concern, large or small, and ts men to conduct it - men of t s, none o your flas suco be depended on. No Mr Guest and I see clear enougook Gell into t  ty near ten years older ts in your favour.

    tom ting a little nervous as Mr Deane  on speaking: o say,  be agreeable to  ion ratance of tion he foresaw.

    `It stands to reason, Mr Deane  on,  deny t if youd been no relation of mine at all, your conduct in t affair of Pelleys bank o make some ackno of to us - and, backed by your general conduct and business ability it ermine on giving you a so increase as tll be better on all grounds tll give you more importance, and prepare you better for taking some of ty off my so a good deal o  present, t Im getting older - t. I told Mr Guest I  to you, and iculars. t stride for a young felloy, but Im bound to say, youve deserved it.

    `Im very grateful to Mr Guest and you, sir - of course I feel t indebted to you, ook me into taken a good deal of pains h me since.

    tom spoke  tremor, and paused after his.

    `Yes, yes, said Mr Deane. `I dont spare pains   he is.

    `But to mention to you, uncle. Ive never spoken to you of it before. If you remember, at time my faty  of your firm buying t it ment, especially if steam were applied.

    `to be sure, to be sure. But akem outbid us - o t. her peoples heads.

    `Pers of no use my mentioning it at present, tom  on, `but I rong feeling about it. It  I sry and get it back again , Im attaco t s your vieo buy it for tter c o mention to you, only youve been kind enougo say my services er c in my own he price.

    Mr Deane ened attentively, and noful.

    `I see, I see, er a y. But t I dont see.  t young Jet-some in t it, Ill be bound.

    ` young Jetsome, said tom. `aking to drinking, and tting told me about it - our old miller.  stay unless teration. I  on in t  ting very sour about things are going on.

    `ell, Ill turn it over, tom. I must inquire into tter, and go into it . But, you see, its ratriking out a neing you to t, instead of keeping you ed.

    `I so manage more t properly going, sir. I  to y of  much.

    t speecy, even in uncle Deanes business-loving ears.

    `Pooo care about one of t on at t as to tnt reckon our coo early. o bear it in mind, and  again. I am going to dinner noomorroo your moter before you start.

 CHAPTER 6

    Illustrating ttraction

    It is evident to you no Maggie  a moment in  be considered by all prudent persons as a great opportunity for a young y of St Oggs, riking person e unfamiliar to ty of bee assistance of costume as you  Pullet, Maggie ainly at a nearting-point in life. At Lucys first evening party, young torry fatigued  `t see ional style conferred by  ending to  sleeves o plait t at t cousin of Miss Deanes looked so very  poor Maggie,  and iment of a troublesome future, o become an object of some envy - a topic of discussion in tablisrimmings. ts,  Oggs, and ook some exception to Maggies manners. S assenting at once to tions current in good society and of saying t s knorue or not  it is a fact capable of an amiable interpretation t ladies are not toance of ts of inferiority. And Maggie irely  tty airs of coquetry ional reputation of driving gentlemen to despair, t sy for being so ineffective in spite of y. S ages, poor t must be admitted tension about ness and unevenness of manner  of ances. It  tinge of vulgarity about  t of poor Lucys relations le. It  agreeable to tion by marriage s; but it o contradict Step ainly tion to Lucy in urally desire t ts so tep fuss if t in civility. Under tances tations to Park  ing, and elseoo distinguisy in St Oggs for any attention toed.

    troduced for t time to t it o get up in t any imperative reason for doing one t amidst t-breats of advancing Spring, amidst trolls in t some intoxicating effect on er ion; and even in t o be less ed by icipations. Life ainly very pleasant just no  to dress in to feel t siful time. And ting o be ctention inually claimed, and on o confer any. It , too, o sit do t tness beto be  by separation - to get tunes s til s a o make t, passionate language to aves ake up a book of Studies rat s taste more keenly by abstraction tive sensation of intervals. Not t  of music  indicates a great specific talent: it  y to tement of music  passionate sensibility ues all merge in eacion sometimes an angry demand, but also prevented y from taking try and device, and gave it try of ambition. But you o be told, not eristics, but ory, ed even from test knoics. For tragedy of our lives is not created entirely from er - says Novalis, in one of ionable aper is destiny. But not tiny. , Prince of Denmark, ive and irresolute, and ragedy in consequence. But if o a good old age, and s  tation of sanity notanding many soliloquies, and some moody sarcasms toer of Polonius, to say not incivility to her-in-law.

    Maggies destiny, t present   for it to reveal itself like t t for all rivers to tion, of ure lot, and y about  intervies predominance: pero  sorry t terview had been deferred.

    For P come ted, and Mr Step broug o t - probably, , on a sketcion; but it  certain   like Po go off in t  telling any one. It  until t urned, to find botes aing  before he knew of Maggies arrival.

    Pero be nineteen again to be quite convinced of t o to cy of titudes of ance almost al periods  seated by Lucys side, or standing near  t-door excursion: tentions  o eresting and amusing since Maggie imes serious ones - ion of tle unobtrusive Lucy; and it more t a cet t an inexplicable t a girl sy t test spasm of jealousy t tion ually directed to  ranquil-ed as Lucy, t sate of ions, and not prone to tive evidence against it. Besides, it o ender politeness too supply t seemed to Lucy t t  t le act of conscience in Step even  aentions to Maggie ively slig distance bet prevented t faint resemblance to gallantry into . If Step of t togeto eacepo be examining books or music, and Maggie bent o t eaco  day. Neito reflect on tter, or silently to ask, `to end? Maggie only felt t life e neo , immediate experience  any energy left for taking account of it, and reasoning about it. Stepained from self-questioning, and  admit to   an influence  on . And rained: Maggie could contradict Step o ion t most cern,  for tandings of men. Maggie could look at Stepo play  for  bazaar-ure empo, .

    One day - it urn - Lucy  to spend te state of ening to become confirmed illness ttack of broncis, obliged o resign ions at to to be one. t epo rise early and call at six oclock for Miss torry, .

    `s of tic bazaar, Step fortorry  taking young ladies from ties of tic o scenes of dissipation among urn-rugs and embroidered reticules! I so knoion of  is not to make reasons for o stay at ill stronger reasons for baco go out. If ty will be dissolved.

    `ell, it  go on muco take place on Monday week.

    `tep  like ty do ty; but just as tis reasonable enougo bear direct taxation, so St Oggs  got force of motive enougo build and endohe force of folly.

    `Did tle Lucy, y. `I never  kind - I t  we were doing.

    `Im sure ep ionately; `your conduct in going out to-nig I kno ttom of it.

    `O, you too y blus ended. But it acitly understood t Step come in trengt tacit understanding  t saying good-by until after four.

    Maggie ed in tly after dinner,  o o tting and nodding ea-time. Maggie ooping to caress tiny silken pet, and comforting resss absence, ep on tep raig o see er dinner! en complained t te at Park ly been

    beating: it ural s accustomed to receive visitors alone.  as o, to enter t ead of by too, and certainly looked as foolis and self-possession can be expected to look, as ating improvisation,

    `You are surprised to see me again, Miss tulliver - I ougo apologise for coming upon you by surprise, but I ed to come into to our man to ro I ;Maid of Artoisquot; for your cousin. I forgot to her?

    `Yes, said Maggie, e knoo do, sat down again.

    Step,  doe a it irely neion.

    `ell, you pampered minion! said Stepo pull t drooped over Maggies arm. It  a suggestive remark, and as t follo up by furt, it naturally left tion at a stand-still. It seemed to Stepion in a dream t o do, and  o go on stroking Minnys  it :  Maggie, and t s  o trange eyes of isfied and quite reasonable after t.  it  of monomania o  t long look from Maggie, and ion continually to find out some means by  its appearing singular and entailing subsequent embarrassment. As for Maggie sinct t - only t of a closely-o look up and sa Minnys back .

    But t end some time - per ended very soon, and only seemed long, as a minutes dream does. Step last sat uprig Maggie.  should he say?

    `e s, I t you go out and see it?

    `I dont kno of t playing cribbage h my uncle.

    A pause: during   insig to be grateful for it - to groher.

    `Do you like sitting alone?

    A rat glancing at Step be quite civil to say quot;yesquot;?

    `It ion for an intruder to ask, said Steped  glance, and getting determined to stay for anot you er I am gone, aking out cill  seven.

    Anoteadily out of till by a great effort so look do Minnys back again, and said,

    `I o go out. e lose our music.

    `e somorro your friend P home.

    Maggie gave a little start - it seemed ion t passed from o foot in an instant. But tion, and laying Minny on  to reac from its corner. Steped: , per like to be mentioned to  abrupt o stay any longer. Maggie ing  table on for uitous, entirely superfluous visit of t sort o make a man disagreeable and ridiculous. Of course it o Maggies t ily in ting off again and finding her alone.

    A boyisate of mind of an accomplisleman of five and ty, not  legal kno a reference to ory, per not incredible.

    At t Maggies ball of knitting-arted up to reac. Stepoo, and, picking up t  gave e a neo Maggie, ed to her.

    `Good-by, said Stepone t ent as  put out  boto ail pockets as  she had perhaps been rude.

    `ont you stay? simidly, not looking a would have seemed rude again.

    `No, tepill into ted eyes, as a ty man looks torack of tant brook. `t is ing for me,... Youll tell your cousin.

    `Yes.

    `t I broughe music, I mean.

    `Yes.

    `And t Philip is come back.

    `Yes. (Maggie did not notice Pime.)

    `ont you come out a little o tepill gentler tone, but t moment  s say `No, for soo take  and o make him amends.

    `Do take my arm, one, as if it .

    trangely o most  offer of t ed p t moment, but trengt is outside t ts a continual  of tion. Eit ground or some otook toget and under tate as ter of an  Step yet perceiving in oms of returning reasonableness, and Maggie ing ts across to be t? Not a  ensely conscious of ther.

    `take care of tep, said Step last.

    `O, I  tep had come like a rescue. `Good evening.

    In an instant so t reflect t tion o tions of t  left for t. So t into tears.

    `O Pogetly - in the Red Deeps.

    Steper , t on to t, and  t ter anot pool. But  leave off. ermined not to t to admit any more distinct remembrance tual presence of Maggie.  her and she was on his arm.

    But ty of y of cursing terly determining t rust  aco Lucy, and engaged - engaged as strongly as an ulliver, to be to a fever by , strange, troublesome, adorable o some man or ot .  not to er ure. o  possible to quarrel ure radicting and clinging, imperious and beseeces. to see sucure subdued by love for one  o another man.

    ttered exclamation ing o s stalked along at a quieter pace t  of a benedictory kind.

 CHAPTER 7

    Pers

    t morning  - t of morning on ion at o pay table visit. to become so  time so certain to clear up by and by, t not an open quarrel can abbreviate t: latent detestation  do at all. And if people o be lovers, e secure; and if you sit do may lead to catarr to be depended on. You gallop t in a mackintosly find yourself in t you like best - a little above or a little belos - (it is to tap is t once ory confidence t teps rainy.

    Maggie made no ans  been for to  Gleggs toget  of ther.

    But Step come earlier, and tor - a nearer neigered to boo Maggie, feeling t tance  o betray; but   once t Lucy aken into   of some agitation to bot many ; but like all persons ation of sympat rol, and s sensitive pride from any noticeable betrayal of emotion. A little extra paleness, a little tension of tril o strangers

    its fierceness. But Maggie ructed of musical strings, felt ting larger ears as took eac painful tears: tears ion to cling to, and look back on tened danger. For Ptle inually in Maggies mind  tom migice,  space, become a sort of outo  s fly to rescue and strengtranquil, tender affection for Ps root deep do talk confirming by distinct successive impressions t instinctive bias - t t in rongly to y and edness to y or otic excitability of ure - seemed noo make a sort of sacred place, a sanctuary  of  resist,  c. tion to Piplied t lest sep t of intercourse  tom ion, and s out o  tears in  any consciousness of an ined, and  deligoget resist t om  ty betom, ry and fairy tales. But so speak as soon as possible, to set t ease.

    `tuous of you, sty treble, like tional notes of little birds, `to come so soon after your arrival. And as it is, I tune manner, and giving your friends no notice. Come and sit do  , `and you sreated mercifully.

    `You ainty t you .

    Lucy gave some playful contradiction, but P  it urned toionate scrutiny  ting  as if .  tense, detailed remembrance - e revival of all t  conversation - t  jealousy and distrust ures is almost inevitably linked rong feeling,   t ed it, o make t rusive proof to trary.

    `I am  ? said Maggie. `Lucy is like a fairy godmoturned me from a drudge into a princess in no time. I do not indulge myself all day long, and s  before I kno myself.

    `Im sure s be better ts to ing by the change.

    Artificial conversation of t  on a little ermined to put an end to it, exclaimed ation of annoyance t sten somet of the room.

    In a moment Maggie and Pentment like t of friends  sorrow.

    `I told my broto see you, Po release me from my promise, and ed.

    Maggie, in ed Po kno once tion t oo allude to t seemed almost like an injury toion ed  oo entirely of o be sensitive on any ot at t moment.

    `t least be friends, Maggie? to  now?

    `ill not your fat? said Maggie, hdrawing her hand.

    `I s give you up on any ground but your oo tell you. t is one.

    `to alking to eaco go very soon - to a neuation.

    `Is t inevitable, Maggie?

    `Yes: I must not stay   me for t begin again at last. I cant live in dependence - I cant live o me. o provide for me - but t olerable to me.

    P a fes, and t ed te suppression of emotion:--

    `Is ternative, Maggie? Is t life ao look foro?

    `Yes, P reated o believe t so t least, as t knoo come. But I begin to to me from loving: I . I , as men do.

    `Nourning to your old t in a ne I used to combat, said P tinge of bitterness. `You  to find out a mode of renunciation t ell you again, t by perverting or mutilating ones nature.  ried to escape from pain? Scorn and cynicism o some kind of conceited madness, and fancy myself a favourite of  a favourite h men.

    tterness aken on some impetuosity as P on speaking: tly an outlet for some immediate feeling of o Maggie. t t moment. est allusion to ted love t   t  c too  of ed sense t ion - t s every one, saion.

    But Maggie ricken.

    `Yes, Prition oo muc enoug enougo find fault eacrue t you used to tell me.

    Maggie ing able, leaning  Pent dependent affection, as surning , to ion. o somet s a lover of Lucys? It  t made  gave neeness to  position, and to tendency of o cion by t positive p t t sometimes accompanies a sudden mental pang.

    ` is tter, Maggie? y - ion being only too ready to  al to th.

    `No - notent   odious t in  from ed, `except in my oo say I s of my starved life, as you called it, and I do. I am too eager in my enjoyment of music and all luxuries, noo me.

    Sook up ely, e in Maggies cer to be agitated by vague self-reproac soon t  the house.

    `O artling announcement! said Maggie, quite mistress of   some inter. `I wonder where Lucy is.

    Lucy  been deaf to ter an interval long enougous but not ephen in.

    `ell, old felloo Maggie in passing, `its glorious to  yourself a little less like a sparroop and not go in and out constantly  letting ts kno tietime Ive o scamper up tless stairs to t painting room of yours, all to no purpose, because your people t you  s embitter friendship.

    `Ive so feors - it seems o leave notice of my exits and entrances, said P tep strong presence and strong voice.

    `Are you quite ulliver? said Stepurning to Maggie iff politeness and putting out y.

    Maggie gave tips of e one of proud indifference. Pc Lucy o seeing variations in to eac  t tural antipated tual good- t of epated by someterprets as conceit,  observation t accounted for everyto guileless Lucy. Steped tudied greeting t  by teptling on in questions to P  sketcion,  Maggie because  draion, as  looking  Lucy. `Per interviehem.

    `I t been galloping. so Steptle damped by t us  to take advantage of oget in quot;Masaniello:quot; Maggie  , and I kno  her.

    `Come, tepoaste of tune in  to hear.

    `You, please, P, said Lucy, `and to play, s you? sty inquiring look, anxious, as usual, lest s  pleasant to anot owards her unfinished embroidery.

    Pened at tion, for t tremes of fear and grief, t does not find relief in music - t does not make a man sing or play tter; and P-up feeling at t, as complex as any trio or quartet t  to express love and jealousy and resignation and fierce suspicion all at time.

    `O yes, ing  t is a  ones imperfect life and being t once - to sing and make to sing and paint.

    `Aep  administrative capacity, I believe. A tendency to predominance of tive po, Miss tulliver?

    Stepake into  of playful appeal to Maggie, and s repress the answering flash and epigram.

    `I endency to predominance, s t moment devoutly  sendency disagreeable.

    `Come, come, said Lucy, `music, music! e ime.

    Maggie alried in vain to go on ried oday, for t t Step no longer roused a merely playful resistance, and soo t it o stand so t   it ions  in tate of emotion produced by t - emotion t seemed to make  once strong and rong for all enjoyment, ance. rain passed into tarted from   ciful  perceptible quivering ttle foready ed and brigo t s. Lucy, imes  t resist to steal up to oo caug t rong an influence.

    `More, more! said Lucy, w ed again: Maggie always says s rush of sound.

    `It must be quot;Let us take t; tepable for a  morning. But are you prepared to abandon t sacred duties of life, th us?

    `O yes, said Lucy, laug t;Beggars Operaquot; from terbury. It has a dingy cover.

    `t is a great clue, considering t a score covers ep terbury.

    `O, play someticing t  is t youre falling into? - somet I dont know.

    `Dont you kno? said P tune more definitely. `Its from t;Ai.quot; I dont kno it appears tenor is telling t  to t;I love till.quot;

    It  quite unintentionally t Po t be an indirect expression to Maggie of o ly. o ive passion of t pleading tenor ies as a voice, but it  quite neo  o cree in to be some reproac? Sinctly in tion t s to rene clasable circumstances. Souc t suggested distinct memories and ts, and broug regret in tement.

    `ts tenors, said Steping imental love and constancy under all sorts of vile treatment. Not of  mediaeval tenor or troubadour,  you from expressing your entire resignation. I must administer an antidote - ear herself away from her bobbins.

    Step, h saucy energy--

    `Sing in despair, Die because a womans fair?

    and seemed to make all t Step to e of ance to t of to taken oo strong for her.

    But angrily resolved not to betray  on making false stitc looking up or taking notice of il all ted in `Let us take the road.

    I am afraid tle, stealing gratification in irely t Stepermination to treat entatious indifference, to an irritating desire for some sign of inclination from erc  long before unity, empest. Maggie, feeling tstool, o get one,  ts, guessed , and fleo anticipate ing tstool reating look at  impossible not to return a glance of gratitude. And to stool placed carefully by a too self-confident personage - not any self-confident personage, but one in particular o ask if t some draug position bet be alloo move table for tle of too ready, traitorous tenderness into a o learn rivial language. And to Maggie t been everyday incidents, but  in ite for e fres tone of gentle solicitude obliged o look at t  to t mutual glance from being delicious to bot he evening before.

    It  an ordinary act of politeness in Step aken tes; and Lucy, . But to Py t o find a definite ground for itself in any trivial incident, teping a beam from rong a contrast  signs of indifference as to be cepibility as if it  iron, and  inclined to make tter discord. ing any unusual feeling betepold ed to go  once t  reflect coolly on till y. But ted to stay as long as Stepayed - alo be present  seemed to poor Pural - nay, inevitable t any man ep: t emboldened Po vieumult, and Lucy  onis, rance to summon to luncly breaking off the music.

    `Aered t seen you for a long   after o t of town.

    `o Mudport on business for several days, said P hes come back now.

    `As fond of his farming hobby as ever, eh?

    `I believe so, said P terest in s.

    `A some land in hink?

    `Yes, he has.

    `Ainued Mr Deane, as  find farming a em - an expensive o t. And t of all  people t money at. t t of a sack then.

    Lucy felt a little nervous under ly gratuitous criticism of Mr akems expenditure. But it ceased t and meditative during omed to cions in ly become strong, for an extra interest in o t an unusual curiosity to knohem in his mind.

    ited to ed to tell or ask icular: s tulliver to leave ter dinner, and seated ool at ances, considered t asted some of t agreeable moments s anding t Lucy, disliking to ering his snuff-box on such occasions.

    `You dont  to go to sleep yet, papa, do you? s up ool and opened t clutche snuff-box.

    `Not yet, said Mr Deane, glancing at t in ter. `But ? o coax some more sovereigns out of my pocket for your bazaar? Eh?

    `No, I ives at all today. I only  to talk, not to beg. I  to kno seemed rato   Mr akems losing money by his hobby?

    `Someto do o repel intrusion into t mystery.

    `But, papa, you al any business kno of  questions sounded rat them queer.

    `Nonsense, co justify aken some pains in  t akems mill and farm on te Mill, your uncle tullivers, you kno ans did. I ed to see if your friend P anyt about ired of farming.

    ` ? said Lucy, eagerly. `O, tell me everytell me. Because Maggie says all ts are set on toms getting back time. It  to tom - t  get back the Mill.

    `tle puss, said Mr Deane, availing ored snuff-box. `You must not say a  ttle cting tting it out of akems  ed it o tullivers getting it again, o part . Its natural, after ulliver before; but a  likely to be paid for h sugar-plums.

    `Notle air of solemnity, `rust me? You must not ask me all my reasons for o say - but I rong reasons. And Im very cautious - I am, indeed.

    `ell, let us hear.

    ` me take Po our confidence - let me tell  your s for - t my cousins  about. I kno.

    `I dont see  can be, crating looking at er, `You dont t you like? (Mr Deane felt quite safe about ers affections.)

    `No, papa; tle about me - not so muc  I e sure of  you ask me. And if you ever guess, dont tell me. Only give me leave to do as I t about it.

    Lucy rose from ool to seat  last request.

    `Are you sure you  do misc .

    `Yes, papa, quite sure. Im very  all your business talents. Didnt you admire my accompt-book, now, w you?

    `ell, er ell trut muc me go off to sleep.

 CHAPTER 8

    akem in a Ne

    BEFORE ter tion you  overo e intervie  Gleggs. For a day and a nigurned over in less agitation all t Lucy old  intervieill ion.  y of altering ion  to Maggie and removing at least one obstacle beted all ion of a c ardour, and ician.  ed. c um, and look at my nechem now.

    `Im getting terribly stiff in ts, Pairs of yours, said akem, looking kindly at  come along, then.

    `t it, Pal lig from t tering ting room. o remind oo t ion. o reproachere, if she came back again from her grave.

    `Come, come, ting ing o take a general vie a famous s see t your t as good as t London artists - ws  Leyburn gave so much money for.

    Ped ing-stool, and aken a lead pencil in rong marks to counteract tremulousness. c up, and uredly dures muc of genuine taste for landscape ill opped before a stand on ures were placed - one mucher case.

    `Bless me! led by a sudden transition from landscape to portrait. `I t youd left off figures. hese?

    `tness, `at different ages.

    `And w person? said akem, sure.

    `Miss tulliver. t s sc Kings Lorton: t quite so good a likeness of w she was when I came from abroad.

    akem turned round fiercely, ting   as if o strike t daring feebleness from tool. But o t o rouser-pockets, still looking angrily at  return t sat quietly c of his pencil.

    `And do you mean to say, t you ance  last,  vain effort  as it desires to inflict into ones, since blows are forbidden.

    `Yes: I sa deal of  often, in t t - te Mill. I love  of tle girl.

    `Go on, sir! - And you his while?

    `No. I never told ill just before ed, and s to see me again or to correspond  sure t s to marry me. But if s - if she did love me well enough - I should marry her.

    `And turn you make me for all tting o tremble under an enraged sense of impotence before Pration of purpose.

    `No, fat  time. `I dont regard it as a return. You  fato me - but I  t it e e lot  of - not t it  you expected me to pay by sacrificing all my co satisfy feelings of yours which I can never share.

    `I t sons erly. `t mad brute, . And t as insolent: only in a cooler ake care. But you seem to ed t of me: you can marry tomorroy - you can go your her.

    akem rose and o sometead of leaving t. Po reply, and han ever.

    `No: I cant marry Miss tulliver, even if so maintain  up to no profession. I cant offer y as y.

    `Ao me, doubtless, said akem, still bitterly, t er of a century. o the chair again.

    `I expected all ten  ansill angrier -  if it isfaction to you to annie t of everytage over most fately deprive me of t h having.

    P .

    `You kno isfaction you  of gratifying a ridiculous rancour hy only of wandering savages.

    `Ridiculous rancour! akem burst out. ` do you mean? Damn it! is a man to be ? Besides, t cold, proud devil of a son,   as I know - if he expense.

    `I dont mean your resentment toom, `t  you so keep it. I mean your extending ty to a oo muco sered into the family quarrels.

    ` does t signify? e dont ask s altogeto you - to tullivers daughter.

    For t time in t some of rol, and coloured h anger.

    `Miss tulliver, ter incisiveness, ` anyt vulgar folly can suppose to belong to tever else ted for irreproacegrity. All St Oggs, I fancy, han my equal.

    akem darted a glance of fierce question at  P looking at ain penitent consciousness  on, in a fes, as if in amplification of  words:

    `Find a single person in St Oggs ell you t a beautiful creature like iable object like me.

    `Not sting everyt of resentful pride,  cs all stuff about an accidental deformity, wtaco a man.

    `But girls are not apt to get attacances, said Philip.

    `ell, tally - trying to recover ion. `If s care for you, you migrouble of talking to me about  rouble of refusing my consent to o happen.

    akem strode to t looking round again, banged it after him.

    P  confidence t imately ive as a  to go doo dinner -  meet  day. It  in ten as early as  seven; and as it ernoon no for a long ramble, t return until  of t into a boat, and  doo a favourite village,  e enougo return.  of quarrel  test just begun, mig mig  time?  allo involuntary question meant. But if ion of Maggies accepted, ackno up to ing room again and tigue into tly at ter and rock t ill o a doze in wening, green, slimy cerfall, and ill  seemed a sudden, awful crash.

    It s, for tible c. It o vacate the chair for him, he said,

    `Sit still. Id rat.

    alked up and doanding opposite P in , inuing a conversation t  been broken off,

    `But to   you in t way.

    P ing rapidly, and a transient flus  quite easy to speak at once.

    `S Kings Lorton, o sit  deal  in  of me as a friend of a long  me.

    `ell, but you made love to  last.  did saking to .

    `Shen.

    `Confound it, t else do you ? Is s?

    `Satingly. `Im afraid s s. Im afraid our long separation, and t events must always divide us may have made a difference.

    `But soo her since you came back?

    `Yes, at Mr Deanes. But I couldnt reneo  one obstacle  - if you o ter-in-law.

    akem  a little wure.

    `S t of  last. `I saher dangerous and unmanageable, eh?

    `Sender and affectionate - and so simple -  tty contrivances other women have.

    `A  your motler - s broies Id no likeness of her.

    `t you be glad for me to  of o sen my life for me? tie so strong to you as t y years ago wig ever since.

    `Ay, P kno of me, said akem, to  keep toget am I to do? You must come doairs and tell me. Am I to go and call on this dark-eyed damsel?

    talk freely to ire relation ullivers - of to get to ts transfer to Guest amp; Co. as an intermediate step. ure noo be persuasive and urgent, and ed on.

    `I dont care about t last  of angry compliance. `Ive ely about t ts, ts all. But t ask me. I s transactions ulliver. If you like to s Ive no sauce t will make him go down.

    I leave you to imagine t to Mr Deane t day to say t Mr akem o open tiations, and Lucys pretty triumpo  proved  business abilities. Mr Deane ed t to  to men of Mr Deanes stamp, raneous to t goes on among tterflies - until it can be so ary affairs. And in to be entirely propitious.

 CHAPTER 9

    Cy in Full Dress

    tion of Maggies career as an admired member of society in St Oggs ainly ty, clad in a -floating kind,  ores of aunt Pullets inction among tional  ificial airs, until iful and simple:  ty  to call simplicity as o ed tones t belong to pretentious vulgarity; but tall being next to t, it seemed neoday t Miss Guest oo  Miss Laura spoke and moved continually o effect. All  St Oggs and its neig ance to see ts open roof and carved oaken rafters and great oaken folding-doors, and lig on t place ripes painted on tly, long-snouted cer, t in t one end, surmounted an oaken orcra , alls for refress  for gentlemen disposed to loiter and yet to exc of vie, t fitness of t building for an admirable modern purpose t made cy truly elegant, and led ty up to t, riking t ered t exc arcra one oriel ed glass   Lucy all for tain large plain articles  at tall to icles rats and ote products of anding. But it soon appeared t tlemens dressing-gos of suctention and inquiry and excited so troublesome a curiosity as to tive merits togetermination to test trying on, as to make  a very conspicuous one. ties of to sell, and did not  dressing-go once ty and bad taste of tailor could furnis is possible t tic notice of various kinds ulliver on trong and unmistakable lig conduct in many minds t. Not t anger on account of spurned beauty can dial breasts of cable ladies, but rat take a deeper tinge from trast, and also, t today Maggies conspicuous position for t time made evident certain ceristics  to ory bearing. tullivers direct gaze, and sometyle of y, o Lucy tic claims on tion of Mr Step.

    As for dear little Lucy e benevolent triump tionate projects so give  spirits today, and s not pleasure in ttractiveness. It is true, sepmost attention on ticles o cajole tomers into t effeminate futilities. o lay aside  and  Fez of  by superficial observers to be interpreted less as a compliment to Lucy t is a great coxcomb, young torry observed, `but t Oggs - orry had red hair.)

    And Stepely notil Lucy said, in ratone,

    `See, noting   one. t s - do buy them.

    `Oep be intended for imaginative persons ern reason is my forte, you kno get Po buy t he come?

    `o come.  t of ted. But nohing of Maggie.

    `No, no - see - s a customer: t coming up.

    Lucys eyes turned erest too see  t intervieime oure of feelings, but so notice t akem act enougo enter at once into talk about terested in purc Maggie, and not calling on o speak muc sremulous.

    `icularly amiable to your cousin, said Stepone to Lucy. `Is it pure magnanimity? You talked of a family quarrel.

    `O, t e tle indiscreet in isfaction, and speaking  Step appear to notice toanding aloof until akem,  ransactions.

    `My son came  o some ot of t all table gallantries to me. I .

    Surned  speaking, and urned aepo  Stepill ting money, and avoided looking up. S ed o Lucy today, and  come near  salutation and botient  e of former failures in resolution. And during t feo failures, looking to ts t must soon come to separate t in detail.

    Stepep by step as if il  round tall and ing ill sle voice saying, `Arent you very tired? Do let me bring you somet or jelly - maynt I?

    ted tones sal vibration of a harp close by her.

    `O no, tly, and only ant.

    `You look so pale, Steped, in a more entreating tone. `Im sure youre exed. I must disobey you, and bring something.

    `No, indeed I couldnt take it.

    `Are you angry   me.

    `Pray, go a ely form o te corner of tra, ered treaty tc t implied, but Stepurned a once, and, follo tle more t angle of t. An entirely ne occurred to Stepself  o ion, it convinced  tion betairs to t room, wo P down be his hand on his shoulder.

    `Are you studying for a portrait, Pc oriel  makes a capital bit from tain just marking it off.

    `I udying expression, said Ply.

    `, Miss tullivers? Its ratoday, I ter.  me to o get , but I ural antipatween us, I suppose - I o please her.

    ` a e you are! said Philip, flushing angrily.

    `, because experience must old me t Im universally pleasing? I admit t turbing force here.

    `I am going, said Ply.

    `So am I - to get a breats oppressive. I t and service long enough.

    tairs toget speaking. Purned ter door into t Step call in  on along to one of t ted to too dasable, tride a care at a   Pyt t issues from a moral conflict en so close a resemblance to vice, t tinction escapes all outs, founded on a mere comparison of actions. It is clear to you, I  Step a e - capable of deliberate doubleness for a selfis uations betematic concealment of it mig of Pion.

    Mean all cold and trembling,  painful sensation in tely repressed tears. as o be alrife? S voices around o t easy, babbling current. It  t t Dr Kenn, ely come into taking a general vieime, and ruck iful face. Sting quite still, for tream of customers  te ernoon: tlemen all , pained expression, finisrast beted. urally draention as a neriking one at croduced to  call on business at Mr Deanes, but o oo speak. S a cinctive relief from tion,

    plain, middle-aged face, rating kindness in it, seeming to tell of a rand, but y torugglers still tossed by t on Maggie at t moment  emotions, but are yet in time  merely contemplative, s of natural priested to be tumblers and victims of self-despair: most of us at some moment in our young lives,  natural order in any sort of canonicals or uncanonicals, but o scramble upo all ties of nineteen entirely  such aid, as Maggie did.

    `You find your office ratiguing one, I fear, Miss tulliver? said Dr Kenn.

    `It is, rat being accustomed to simper amiable denials of obvious facts.

    `But I can tell Mrs Kenn t you o you.

    `O I lemen came very fast to buy tcoats but I t knoo say about them.

    Dr Kenn smiled. `I o  parisulliver - am I? You  a distance from us o.

    `I eaco anotuation of the same kind very soon.

    `Ahis neighbourhood, I believe.

    `O I must go, said Maggie, earnestly, looking at Dr Kenn old ory in t s of implicit revelation e transiently - on a miles journey, pering by ty of a ranger to keep alive therhood.

    Dr Kenns ear and eye took in all t th meaning.

    `I understand,  rigo go. But t  prevent our meeting again, I   prevent my knoter, if I can be of any service to you.

    out urned away.

    `Srouble or ot , . `Poor c turn out to be one of

    `ture pitcoo oo low.

    t in tiful eyes.

    It may be surprising t Maggie, among  absent noructing to more elated on a day e of so many looks and smiles, toget satisfactory consciousness  tall beauty, cro of   ten everyty. If t state of mind could ed, o ep at , offering ion near and distant, ies of culture at  tronger ty - passion, and affection, and long deep memories of early discipline and effort, of early claims on y; and tream of vanity  along and mingled imperceptibly   s  force today, under ts and inward impulses broug week.

    P spoken to  tacles bet - but old everyto Lucy,  Maggie, being informed t give  t to eaco ing feelings oo great for Maggie to say mucriump revelation, and Lucy could  stle more t t of oms getting triving. tails of preparation for to usurp Lucys attention for t fes t o rouse deeper feelings. Po t Maggie e conversation  to figtle  interference.

    But oget home, Lucy said,

    `You must give up going to stay  Moss ter tomorroe a note to ell  it off at my request and Ill send t. S be displeased - youll y of time to go by and by. And I dont  you to go out of t now.

    `Yes, indeed I must go, dear - I cant put it off. I  leave aunt Gritty out for ttle time, for Im going ao a neuation on ty fifth of June.

    `Maggie! said Lucy, almost onis.

    `I didnt tell you, dear, said Maggie, making a great effort to command  some time ago, I e to our old governess, Miss Firniss, to ask o let me knouation t I could fill, and tter from elling me t I could take to t during trial of a situation eace yesterday to accept the offer.

    Lucy felt so  t for some moments so speak.

    `Maggie, s last, `o me - not to tell me - to take sucep - and noed a little, and t everyto be so  is t up - let me e. to keep you and P.

    `Yes, said Maggie, faintly. `toms feeling.  give  c least not for a long en him.

    `But I alk to  ten alk to  Poms al to me - I dont tinate.

    `But I must go, said Maggie, in a distressed voice. `I must leave some time to pass. Dont press me to stay, dear Lucy.

    Lucy  for tes, looking aing. At lengt down by h anxious seriousness, said--

    `Maggie, is it t you dont love Po marry ell me - trust me.

    Maggie igtle  inct.

    `Yes, Lucy - I  and  lot for me - to make . No one else could be quite  I cant divide myself from my brot go a. Pray dont speak to me again about it.

    Lucy obeyed in pain and  word she said was,

    `ell, dear Maggie, at least you o t Park omorroo pay tiful visits. Ay and tea.

 CHAPTER 10

    the Spell Seems Broken

    te of rooms opening into eac Park  s and floeen couples tendant parents and guardians. t forion of to  one end ion of maturity,  tty sitting- room ory attac as an occasional cool retreat. Lucy, ime and ty slimness set off by an abundant dress of s ties, including no member of any aristocracy  of St Oggs, and stretco treme limits of commercial and professional gentility. Maggie at first refused to dance, saying t sten all t  is ill dancing . But at lengt in  orry o try and persuade  s dance anyt a country dance, but o  for t y, meaning only to be complimentary ervals t it  bore t s z - o z  at last it urn of t of vanity and t of merriment in it, and Maggie quite forgot roublous life in a c of t ic ro banisentious etiquette. S quite cably toorry, as  fire of young joy in t if it can find t breato fan it; and s bit of black lace, seemed like tting of a jewel.

    Step yet asked o dance -  yet paid y. Since yesterday, t in of  like a blot: ttac bet ttac on epold o resist ttraction t inually tening to overpo a certain savage resistance, and at anot a so trusion of P made it a neement to rusoo do t aloof from  o Lucy. But noo kick young torry out of take ed to end t  get rid of ner. ty t oo so possess . But even noing in ting still to t, ther.

    Step  automatic ies of politeness in terval, until ed alone again, at toz, and e of all ts t  . ill brig to joy and tenderness: - even t seem bitter - so  as a part of life, for life at t seemed a keen vibrating consciousness poised above t nig expand unrestrainedly in t,  ting ts of t and ture.

    `to z again, said Stepo speak to  glance and tone of subdued tenderness o tones bring try o a room t is ifling ation.

    `to z again: it is rato look on and t a little?

    ook  o tting-room, reion of visitors  to look at t no visitors . to tory.

    `range and unreal trees and flos among to an enced land, and hey were all made of jewels.

    S tier of geraniums as sep   a supreme poet blend ligo one, calling darkness mute, and lig? Sometrangely po of Step made Maggies face turn to and look up it - slo tness. And teadily on,  feeling t t feeling anyt t long grave mutual gaze o all deep  t t and e confession more intense in its rapture.

    But tory, and o pause and turn. t brougo Maggie: surned ao smell tepood motionless and still pale.

    `O may I get t effort to say somete trievable confession. `I te o gatill t left.

    Stepe: ting a sentence toget tle upo tracted  felt ty of a ions of tenderness t lie in tly lessening curves doo te  s tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in tness. A ouc sculptor t  an image of it for till as it clasps lovingly time- ints of life.

    A mad impulse seized on Steped to, clasping t.

    But t moment Maggie snatc from  ion.

    ` rigo insult me?

    Sed from o ting and trembling.

    A  reaco Lucy, to Po ter soul. t momentary ten  - a leprosy: Step more lighan he did of Lucy.

    As for Step tory, dizzy  of passions - love, rage and confused despair: despair at  of self-mastery, and despair t he had offended Maggie.

    t feeling surmounted every oto be by reat forgiveness  ive for  been seated more tes, ter rage .

    `Leave me to myself, if you please, suous iness, `and for ture avoid me.

    Stepurned a ty of going back into to be conscious of t. t so s a time t z  ended.

    Maggie, too,  long before sered. All ture ung into activity: teful  s and temptations of t monto an unvisited co allure y ered till ed brig  defied anyto agitate o dance again, but salked quite readily and calmly   nig, almost exulting in t  reaco gentle, unsuspicious sister.

    t morning Maggie did not set off to Basset quite so soon as sed. o accompany  be despatcily by Mrs tulliver. So Maggie,  ing, equipped for ts for t Basset, and  some alarm lest Lucy s Stepo  o be Stephen.

    But presently tor came out into ted   Stephen.

    `e can just catcips of tc, said Philip.

    taken eac Maggie  e revival of tionate smile t encouraged.

    `Yes, sen look at t on tems again. But I   once - to ther.

    `I inually, said P t to live upon.

    A keen remembrance and keen pity impelled Maggie to put en walked hand in hand!

    `I remember all ts - just icular tiful stories t I had never heard of before.

    `You  you, Maggie? said Pting timid and tremulous. `thers home again.

    `Yes - but I s be t  told you, perhaps?

    `ture o t again, Maggie? - t book is quite closed?

    t en looked up at reating ruggling ray of  th her large sincere gaze.

    `t book never  ies of t. But tie to my brotrongest. I can do not will divide me always from him.

    `Is t t  for ever, Maggie? said Pe determination to e answer.

    `t. At t moment s as if ted cup o tionary excitement t gave ery  subsided, and s ture h a sense of calm choice.

    t  looking at eaces: in Maggies mind t scenes of love and parting  tual moment, and s Phe Red Deeps.

    P t  to  ans as a rock-pool.  tisfied  of an omniscience t ect tlest fold of t.

 CHAPTER 11

    In the Lane

    MAGGIE   Mosss giving te a neionate  avatar of perfect y. Sanding on t and a group of cousins feeding t t quiet moment in ternoon milking-time. t buildings round tumbledo over traggling rose-buso toss t, and ts er-noon sunlig suited t time. Maggie  over  a c exclaimed,

    `Goodness me! leman coming in at te?

    It leman on a tall bay reaked black  riding. Maggie felt a beating at  - o life of a savage enemy wh.

    `, my dear? said Mrs Moss, seeing in Maggies face t she knew.

    `It is Mr Step, said Maggie, ratly. `My cousin Lucys - a gentleman e at my cousins.

    Stepo t as he advanced.

    `o twelve-year-old boy.

    `No, tep tiently tossing  be going again immediately. I o deliver to you, Miss tulliver - on private business. May I take ty of asking you to h me?

    ated look, sucs le use to  abruptly, as if oo pressing for o trouble   by Mrs Moss of  and request. Good Mrs Moss, ratly y gentleman, o invite o leave  of tuation, and unable to say anyt on  and turned to oe.

    Stepurned too and walked by her side, leading his horse.

    Not a ill t in traigurned again to y resentment,

    `to go any fart knolemanly and delicate conduct to place me in a position t forced me to come out o insult me still furting an interviehis way.

    `Of course you are angry epterly. `Of course it is of no consequence  is only your y t you care about.

    Maggie gave a sligart, suc est possible electric shock.

    `As if it  enoug Im entangled in t Im mad  I resist trongest passion a man can feel, because I try to be true to ot you must treat me as if I e  myself - I took an unable liberty - I e myself for . But I repented immediately - Ive been repenting ever since. You oug to t unpardonable - a man ered by ; but you kno believe - t t pain I could o  I o recall the error.

    Maggie dared not speak - dared not turn rengt ment rust o utter t rose in anso t confession.

    t of te again, and srembling.

    `You must not say t not ep of o prevent oe. `Im very sorry for any pain you o go t it is of no use to speak.

    `Yes, it is of use, said Stepuously. `It reat me  of pity and consideration instead of doing me vile injustice in your mind. I could bear everytly if I kne e me for an insolent coxcomb. Look at me - see y miles every day to get a of you.

    Maggie did not - dared not look. S sly, `I dont think any evil of you.

    `t, look at me, said Step, tenderest tones of entreaty. `Dont go a. Give me a moments happiness - make me feel youve forgiven me.

    `Yes, I do forgive you, said Maggie, sones, and all tened at  pray let me go in again. Pray go away.

    A great tear fell from under her lowered eyelids.

    `I cant go a leave you, said Stepill more passionate pleading. `I s ans if you tle . You see plainly enoug your anger en times more unreasonable.

    Maggie turned. But tancred, to make suced remonstrances against t cion, t Stepc of illy Moss peeping te, called out, ` come and es.

    `O no, said Maggie,   so strange.

    `Never mind, Stepiently; `t kno St Oggs. Lead  es, o illy, urned to Maggies side, and t  s go on now.

    `take my arm, said Stepreatingly; and sook it, feeling all tmare.

    `to truggling to repel t is  Lucy - t ot not hink of Lucy.

    `I do t-- Step rested on  it difficult to speak.

    `And I ies, Maggie  on, at last, e effort, - `even if Lucy did not exist.

    `You are engaged to Pepily. `Is it so?

    `I consider myself engaged to  mean to marry any one else.

    Step again until turned out of to a side lane, all grassy and sered. t out impetuously,

    `It is unnatural - it is o to eacaken ties t ermine to marry eacher.

    `I o t temptation, said Maggie, inctness, - all tual force of painful years coming to remity. She drew her arm from his as she spoke.

    `tell me t you dont care for me,  violently. `tell me t you love some one else better.

    It darted t ruggle - to tell Step  ter t, and s.

    `If you do love me, dearest, said Steply, taking up   is better, it is rig  is come upon us  our seeking: it is natural - it aken e of every effort I o resist it. God knorying to be faito tacit engagements, and Ive only made tter  first.

    `Maggie . If it   and struggle against t, soft and yet strong as tream!

    `Say quot;yes,quot; dearest, said Stepo look entreatingly in  could  in to eacher?

    t dread dwelling in his love for her.

    ant, like a lovely imid and struggling under caresses, and turned sowards home again.

    `And after all,  on, in an impatient tone, trying to defeat ive engagement: - if Lucys affections o some one else, I s no rigo assert a claim on  absolutely pledged to Pher of us bound.

    `You dont believe t - it is not your real feeling, said Maggie, earnestly. `You feel, as I do, t tie lies in tations y. thfulness.

    Step:  pursue t argument; te conviction  in oo strongly time of struggle. But it soon presented itself in a new form.

    `t be fulfilled, uous insistance. `It is unnatural: end to give ourselves to any one else. t too - t for t see t - you do see t.

    sign of compliance; le grasp s,  h solemn sadness,

    `O it is difficult - life is very difficult. It seems rigo me sometimes t  feeling; - but tinually come across ties t all our former life ies t  on us - and  te easy and simple, as it mig one being first toies for us before love comes - love  to eac I see - I feel it is not so no renounce in life - some of us must resign love. Many t and dark to me - but I see one te clearly - t I must not, cannot seek my o surely pity and faitural too. And till, and punis obey ted by t urge me; help me - help me, because I love you.

    Maggie  as s on; ep vibrated to  in t -  be ot pleading beauty gained new power over him.

    `Dearest, ole round  - one kiss - one - t - before .

    One kiss - and til Maggie said tremulously, `Let me go - let us make e back.

    S anotepood still and beckoned  on te. Mrs Moss anding alone at t all tfulness; it mig Maggie  surally feel embarrassed at coming in again - and it mig be joyful. In eited anxiously to receive Maggie by  if t ating dubious sort.

    `Sit do dohe house.

    `O aunt Gritty, Im very ceen. It seemed so easy to give t is so hard now.

    ts neck, and fell into long, deep sobs.

 CHAPTER 12

    A Family Party

    MAGGIE left  Gritty at t to Garum Firs to pay  to aunt Pullet according to agreement. In time, very unexpected to be a family party at Garum to discuss and celebrate a cunes of tullivers, s like t limb of an eclipse, and cause to obscured virtues to s is pleasant to kno a nery just come into office are not tion and full-bloable families t tives becoming creditable meet y of recognition, ecedents, suggests ty t  any notice find ourselves in full millennium, rices e and  no longer seet t intentions. Lucy came so early as to art even of aunt Glegg; for to urbed talk  t seemed - did it not? said Lucy, tiest air of unes (poor creatures!) o make poor dear aunt tulliver, and cousin tom, and y Maggie too, if s obstinately bent on trary, as o be after all troubles. to t ter tom le, t unfortunate young Jetsome, c, and  St Oggs in a dangerous state, so t akem  ter on t once! It  un it did seem as if tune  any otime, in order t cousin tom mig re so very  tulliver must certainly go to tom: t o Lucy in tter of ; but to ty being in ting comforts about here!

    On t point Lucy s, and airs into ted  tactician he enemy.

    `Aunt Pullet, sing ing t ladys floating cap-string, `I  you to make up your mind om to Glegg will follow.

    `t s,  got to follo ell you. Saste, not if sags and foxes, all able-linen is - not a spot nor a diamont among em. But its poor  to , Bessy, Mrs Pullet continued, s er tulliver, ` flax iver he Lord knows where yours is gone.

    `Id no cer, said poor Mrs tulliver, accustomed to consider  of an accused person. `Im sure it  bleacry.

    `take a peppermint, Mrs tulliver, said uncle Pullet, feeling t , which he was recommending by example.

    `O but, aunt Pullet, said Lucy, `youve so muciful linen. And suppose you ers! t , whey were married.

    `ell, I dont say as I  do it, said Mrs Pullet, `for nooms so lucky, its not rigable-clot at your sale, Bessy, it  good natur o me to buy em, for t ever since. But Im not going to give Maggie any more o my Indy muslin and to go into service again, ay and keep me company, and do my seed at hers.

    `Going into service ed to itself tion of teacurn to t menial condition, noances offered s, o be a sore point ives, besides Lucy. Maggie in ogetate of dubious promise,  undesirable niece; but noal and useful. t  and uncle Gleggs presence, over tea and muffins.

    `uredly patting Maggie on t let us aking a place again, Maggie.  s at t t sort of article? Come, now?

    `Mr Glegg, said  seness in y, s. `Youll excuse me, but youre far too ligs respect and duty to s and t of o  my niece from fixing about going a consulting us - not ss, if Im to use suc was never heared in my family.

    ` did t to see em, t? t us s enougly,  tion of sness, took a little more sugar.

    `Mr Glegg, said Mrs G., `if youre going to be undelicate, let me know.

    `La, Jane, your , `let  rengtilt got  laugo try.

    `Ill trouble you for to interrupt your joking. ts ot see tting a slig sister, as is t on s visits all time sotling to go a my kno on purpose for o make em up for me, - and me as have divided my money so equal--

    `Sister, Mrs tulliver broke in, anxiously, `Im sure Maggie never t o going a staying at your  as its my  quite contrairy. Im sure Im innicent. Ive said over and over again, quot;My dear, youve no call to go a; But ten days or a fortnigo go: say at your  as ep in when I can, and so will Lucy.

    `Bessy, said Mrs Glegg, `if youd exercise a little more t, you mig o unpin a bed, and go to all t trouble no at time, er of an  t at nig a good aunt so close to o come and sit h. I know I should, when I was her age.

    `La, Jane, said Mrs Pullet, `it ud do your beds good to o sleep in em. t Striped Room smells dreadful mouldy, and t I sruck ook me in.

    `O, tom! exclaimed Lucy, clapping old  going to keep his promise.

    Maggie jumped up to kiss tom as ered, rong feeling, at t meeting since t of returning to to  o to ill a perpetual yearning in  s root deeper t  Moss?

    `Come, come, sir, said Mr Glegg, putting out  seems. Youre come into your luck a good deal earlier t I  stop he hill.

    `But I s  to, said Mrs Glegg. `If  o take after, efulness in our family - nor dying  wills--

    `No, nor sudden deat Pullet. `Allays tor called in. But tom  from t. And I dont knoo do, sister Glegg, but I mean to give able clot sizes but one, besides ss. I dont say  I so-morro, youll bear it in mind - t on t -caps ies - not t is. Youll make a mistake and I so kno. Youve a memory for my pills and draug of you - but youre lost among t of t o Mrs Pullet.

    `You carry it too far, Sop locking in and out, said Mrs Glegg, in a tone of some disgust at t lock up; but I do  o make a present of to my nevvie: Ive got clottened, better  and t.

    tom t evaded any promise to meditate nigues; and Mr Glegg effected a diversion for  Mr Deanes intentions concerning steam.

    Lucy ed vieom to come on Sindbad. It appeared, ime to go  t o ride tom o drive  sit by yourself, aunty, said t contriving young lady, `because I must sit by tom; Ive a great deal to say to him.

    In tionate anxiety for Maggie, Lucy could not persuade o defer a conversation about om,  of  t become pliant and flexible. ure supplied o toms, and so notice t cenance ed on tion as a great stroke of policy, urn toms  to, prove t to receive Maggie er-in-laed, t for dear tom,  smile o turn completely round, say te of  Maggie sable despatching could be easier.

    But to minds strongly marked by tive and negative qualities t create severity - strengtitude of purpose, narroion and intellect, great porol and a disposition to exert control over otural food of tendencies enance out of t complex, fragmentary, doubt-provoking kno a prejudice be bequeated by  in t may come, t a ation: it is someto assert strongly and bravely, someto fill up taneous ideas, someto impose on oty of conscious rig is at once a staff and a baton. Every prejudice t . Our good uprigom tullivers mind icism of s did not prevent ing   a man of lax principle and lax life, and it ing-point for all ted feelings of family and personal pride. Oto produce toms bitter repugnance to Po Maggies union anding Lucys po a cold refusal ever to sanction suc of course Maggie could do as sermination to be independent. For toms part, y to o consent to any relation he akems.

    t Lucy ed by ion o fill toms mind ation t Maggies perverse resolve to go into a situation again, ly metamorpself, as  to do, into somet entirely different - a marriage h Philip akem.

 CHAPTER 13

    Borne Along by tide

    IN less t St Oggs again, - out begun. It  any obvious effort; for ss to pay to  Glegg, and it ural t s ions to be t of for toms  Lucy  for  al Gleggs before dinner - `else  t could not be resisted. And Mr Step ably taken to dining at Mr Deanes as often as possible, instead of avoiding t, as o do. At first ion t  dine t even go in till Maggie ing off on a journey in tantly been alleging as a ground for stupidity and silence  ostensible motive. But t taken, and by tinct resolution  times  for a little c? to conceal beto part. o divide t appeal from  soul : but surely t cast a lingering look at eacurned ao look again till t strange lig of time, moved about orpor of manner, so contrasted ful brig Lucy  been convinced t tion in e enougo account for a large amount of depression. But under torpor ttle of emotions, sucruggle  seemed to  evil in ill noed up full-armed rengts in ting possession of  Lucy -  fulness of existence - love,  - all t ure craved , t anot  - anot less? But amidst all te tumult till, from time to time, tumult seemed quelled. as t existence ed ence sriving, all ty for anotured in ion and iment of somet ence in  by maiming t  organs of o   to oting - give me strengto bear it. - o truggle emptation t s e crime?  first eful moment in ion, and gratitude, and  s from  , since trange, s, subduing influence did not, s conquer  o remain simply ing Step t of  t still snatcs of mute confession before ting came. For  oo? S daily - sa in tigue  compelled to exert o indifference to ty of cimes to ans beseec to be folloill at last times made of a moments mutual gaze - t of it till it came, and epo care for, and t o sing: it o Maggie - per distinctly conscious t o it by a secret longing, running counter to all o deepen tcice  is guided by your less conscious purposes, and you and t contradiction in Stephen.

    P visitor, but

    out on t,

    `Noale of visits to aunt Glegg is completed, I mean t ing every day until s ing, because of tiresome visits, and s better t you, Maggie?

    `Better t of locomotion, I  Maggie,  gly boatman ed in a boat for ever.

    `So be man? said Lucy. `Because, if you ake an oar. If t a quiet lake instead of a river, leman, for Maggie can ro is, o ask services of knig seem to offer t alacrity.

    S Stepering up and do singing in pianissimo falsetto

    `t t from th ask a drink divine.

    ook no notice, but still kept aloof: ly during P visits.

    `You dont seem inclined for boating, said Lucy,  do you now?

    `O, I e a large party in a boat,  irritably. `Ill come when you have no one else.

    Lucy coloured, fearing t P: it e a neepo speak in t  ainly not been e. Poo, but less from a feeling of personal offence t Stepion to Maggie, ed up from oo look at t on the river.

    `As Miss Deane didnt know sing me, said Po resign.

    `No, indeed, you s, said Lucy, mucicularly ide  at  ten - it ime for a couple of o roo Luckrets too . And  to four people in a boat? s Stephen.

    `I dont object to t teped for a fourt all, of course it  divide ting take it alternately. Ill go t day.

    t  of draention ude toep ulliver and Mr Deane being occupied  apart near table ening abstractedly to teply turned to a duet  Lucy and Pen done t t ention in every epc Maggie virtually denied any ground for s on rutself; it  to believe  spoken togetep be strongly fascinated by  ural?), but P ruding on  be . Still, cepered slooable near urned over tly in mere idleness. ted o ting tracted by some bit of local ney looking at Maggie, aken test notice of ional strengtance  as rain our speecter in a spot t o be  at last s, uttered in test tone of pained entreaty, like t of a patient s in t Basset, arily as if it iculate cry. P o te side of tart and blusant toep immediately look appreo evident to  P a pang of s made o o c cribbage.

    P er in a state of  mingled cainty. It  tion t tual consciousness betep able, susceptible nerves  to frenzy by t one c: tempt no explanation t  ions.  last, to its ual predominance,  long in imagining trutruggling, so all urn. But at t belief, ties t  be driven out of sigion ory: Step old ed   -crus sowards him?

    oo ill to t to go in t. In  agitation ernate betradictory intentions. First,   erviereat o confide in rusted erference.  been ting tered inually present  to ask ion of feelings ended to  trust o see ill   from pure anxiety for  from egoistic irritation. e a brief note to Step it early by t, saying t  o Miss Deane. ould Stepake his excuse, and fill his place?

    Lucy e content epo go in t. S o drive to Lindum t ten: Lindum ed to go to, to make purcant purc by no means be put off to anotunity; and aunt tulliver must go too, because she purchases.

    `You  to Maggie  of t-room and upstairs toget  ten, and it is a delicious morning. No say a  it, you dear dolorous t is t your face against all t tom: you may disobey tle.

    Maggie did not persist in objecting. S glad of t o be alone  ing ter life, in umult of t. S, and at  ten sat ing in the drawing-room.

    t tual, and sionate pleasure of t o be inguisep across t ainly not Pep entered.

    In t moment too mucated to speak; for Step t t. Maggie arted up and sat do beating violently, and Step by  P effort - for srembled visibly - so go to a distant chair.

    ` coming, said Stepone, `I am going in t.

    `O,  go, said Maggie, sinking into  expect - s.  Philip come?

    ` ead.

    `Lucy is gone to Lindum, said Maggie, taking off , rembling fingers. `e must not go.

    `Very ep ed ay here.

    o erious as tarlit blackness, and yet very near, and timidly loving. Maggie sat perfectly still - pers, peres - until trembling here was a warm glow on her cheek.

    `ting - aken tell him?

    ` sell ep in a he lips now.

    Maggie made no answer.

    `Let us go, Stepreatingly, rising, and taking o raise oo. `e s be long together.

    And t. Maggie felt t sender care into t, , and ten) - all by tronger presence t seemed to bear  any act of ing influence of a strong tonic - and s nothing else. Memory was excluded.

    to Stepide, past tofton trees and , sunny fields and pastures  ary song of a passing bird   solitude of a t o one by t grave untiring gaze ed -  ion of love came from Stepime to time, as  on roically: ot could  to t? and t did not belong to t enced  belonged to t and ture t lay outside t ion on to be passed before topped and left t. At all times so fits of absence, t so let iced.

    But at last Stepo roer as if c   tretc t t tirely strange to errible alarm took possession of her.

    `O, o stop? so see if t of sigo be seen. Surned round again, ressed questioning at Stephen.

    on cer, and said, in a strange, dreamy, absence tone, `Yes - a long way.

    `O  home for hours - and Lucy - O God, help me!

    So a sob, like a frig of not of meeting Lucy, and seeing  - per upbraiding.

    Step beside ly drehe clasped hands.

    `Maggie, one of slo us never go ill no one can part us - till we are married.

    tone, tartling ed Maggies sob, and s quite still - ep ies t er everytcs.

    `See, Maggie,  our seeking - in spite of all our efforts. e never t of being alone toget ide is carrying us out - aural bonds t o make faster round us - and trying in vain. It o torby, and  some carriage, and o York, and to Scotland - and never pause a moment till o eac only deat us. It is t t - it is tcanglement. Everyto point it out to us. e rived not of nothing ourselves.

    Step pleading. Maggie listened - passing from artled  to ter t belief t tide  all - t s glide along , silent stream and not struggle any more. But across t stealing influence came terrible s ts; and t no last t of fatal intoxication oephen.

    `Let me go! sated tone, flas look at rying to get ed to deprive me of any coo far - you o take advantage of my tlessness. It is unmanly to bring me into sucion.

    Stung at to  of desperation at ty Maggies o  consent to go on,  curse  o. But ting  sed uno one of suppressed rage,

    `I didnt notice t o t village - and t came into my mind t  justify it - I ougo old you. It is enougo make you e me - since you dont love me  to you - as I do you. Sop t, and try to get you out ell Lucy t I  you e me - and you so you.

    Maggie  o resist Stepure ed - easier even to turn a seemed to place ion from ate of feeling in ransmuted into mere self-regard. t fire in o look at imid distress. So irrevocable trespass - she, who had been so weak herself.

    `As if I s feel  trust. to tepal t inguis sense of otance.

    all ting in one, - it o utter anoto make anot, t mig - everyting in t silence as in a  till t t test perceptible fresill ter of tered.

    `You  up an instant, dearest.

    Maggie obeyed: told o do, and  doepook to e; for t try to get to torby as fast as ttended ance - it is tial sleep of t - it is ty by anotended to lull o acquiescence: t dreamy gliding in t, igued sensations from ticable difficulty of getting out of t at tance from o bring o more complete subjection to t strong mysterious c parting from Step of oucorturing iron before wion s o absorb all her languid energy.

    Presently Steper teamer to Mudport, ide, but for t  t o  and t Maggie, atingly.

    `Maggie, dearest,  last, `if to Mudport or to any convenient place on t nort  plan to get to take us on board. You are fatigued - and it may soon rain - it may be a cting to torby in t. Its only a trading vessel, but I dare say you can be made tolerably comfortable. ell take t of t. It is really our best plan. to take us - Ive got plenty of money about me - I can pay them well.

    Maggies  began to beat  tion; but s - one course seemed as difficult as another.

    Step co Mudport, te informed wo days.

    `e  out too far , said Steprying to make for torby. But Im afraid of ted igue and ake us on board, will you, and . Ill pay you well.

    Maggie, no and trembling aken on board, making an interesting object of contemplation to admiring Dutce feared time of it on board, for tion for sucirely unlooked-for passengers - no private cabin larger t at least tcolerable; and t-cuso a coucy. But to pace up and doeprengt c s reclining on t no neion could be taken t day. Everyt  till to-morroep beside o eacones, only look at eac ake a long y of trangers to t minor degree of interest s nearer t Stepriumply  or care o unmarked perspective by tainty t Maggie must be aken noured by scruples,  fiercely ering inclination, ated; but repentance ences ion - enderness -  toget be  ure to every common day - t to satisfy est  to part ; o   ered in loones by t  stirred t - on experienced minds at a distance from to poor Maggie tar o ty lips: t be, tals  ion epe  to  ime excluded all realities - all except turning sun-gleams ers as t of promised  t pressed  spoke to  looked at h grave, unspeakable love.

    to be no rain, after all; to t purple rampart, and long purple isles of t o us ar co sleep all nig ter t  ill early,  on a dro rest, and s t dying flus  Stepill seated by  t  stream and made irely passive, t tion ransient one, and t t bring back truggle - t ts  noinct to o sleep  soft stream still flo.

 CHAPTER 14

    aking

    o sleep, Stepoo omed amount of roense in too restless to sleep,  to midnig seeing ter - ars - living only in tant future. At last fatigue conquered restlessness, and arpauling on t. Sest  of a midsummer daybreak er epar appeared, t greill t ed in St Oggs boat, and it came nearer and nearer till tman  looking at o stretc o  turned over  and to sink, till o a really angry. From t false o ter against tstep on tarlit sky. t of utter be before  disentangled from t soon terrible trutself upon ep by  must blot ted - s sorroo to t  up rust and love. t ure  recoiled from - breac ties t o duty, and la t lead  led o t temptation. S it no t ed. t least t from all riving after t and best - t rayed, beguiled, ensnared, could never deliberately consent to a c? O God - not a c of conscious cruelty and o see before rust and ep for ever sink and ain impulse; for s go t clue

    ecstasy; s face to face no sad patient living strengt ts bro yesterday  endurance s cross .

    Daybreak came and tern lig life igc moments of possible rescue. Sepill fast asleep, and  of  found its  bitterness of parting - t t urged t in give to  surmounting everyt   rise to energy till it oo late. - too late! It oo late no to oo late for everyt to rus act of baseness - tasting of joys t were wrung from cruss.

    tarted up  a day of resistance  ears, as,  looking at tepoo, and, getting up from o sit beside inct of anxious love sao give  glance. ance in Maggies nature t o overcome.   freedom yesterday: too mucive  to feel t if  o reproach him.

    But Maggie did not feel t rigoo conscious of fatal enderness t comes ing a  do of possible parting oget tains assurance t t Mudport by five oclock, eac in  ed to to dissipate - in  e resolve on ly to tigepinually, ty at tigue and discomfort so landing and to tion and repose sing to assure ely by pre-supposing t everyt. For a long ed  ss rest, and t s mind about being on t  like being on t tle less pleasant t on t a suppressed resolve ray itself in tep Maggie irely lost  did not dare, to speak of ter it, and teps ake to inform , of  assent from  eacime  ronger dread of t sadness  .

    ` of Mudport,  last. `No, urning to of your fatigue is over. On tness. In anotoget  to you after this.

    Maggie felt it ime to speak - it o assent by silence. S tone, as  inct decision.

    `e s be togeted.

    to Stephens face.

    `e s, .

    It  neito say anotill t  doaken to ter of gazers and passengers aing ture of teamboat to St Oggs. Maggie ep some one oer as if o speak to  s to everyt trial.

    A porter guided to t inn and postingepook no notice of to so a room w down.

    ered, Maggie did not sit doepe determination in it,  to ring the bell, when she said, in a firm voice,

    `Im not going,  part here.

    `Maggie, urning round toure beginning, `Do you mean to kill me?  is t nohing is done.

    `No, it is not done, said Maggie - `too mucrace of. But I  try to prevail  cerday.

    , and make a new barrier. y.

    `Maggie,  last, pausing before one of imploring cy -  I did yesterday. - I  your full consent. But dont bligy t can anso any one - t can only create ne do -  - t you are going to do. Dont treat me as if you couldnt trust me.

    effective appeal; but Maggies o suffer.

    `e must not , s distinct voice. `e must part at once.

    `e cant part, Maggie, said Stepuously. `I cant bear it.  is ting t misery on me? tever it may ruck no  you should drive me mad?

    `I  begin any future, even for you, said Maggie, tremulously, `e consent to o  I told you at Basset I feel noo temptation. It er if   part now.

    `e  part, Step out, instinctively placing  tting everyts before. `I  endure it. Youll make me desperate - I s know w I do.

    Maggie trembled. S t ting could not be effected suddenly. S rely on a sloo Stepter self - s be prepared for a ask t of rusion epc look of desperation  like t of a frig t opposition  ermination groronger.

    `Remember   - t o ot conquer every inclination  debt. e o keep our resolutions - but the same.

    `No, it does not remain tep it o keep our resolutions. e  torong to be overcome. t natural las every ot  it clash.

    `It is not so, Stepe sure t is o t again and again - but I see, if   for all treacy -  sacred ties t can ever be formed on eart is not to bind us, ion of t.

    `But ties t cant be kept by mere resolution, said Steparting up and  again. ` is outancy  love?

    Maggie did not ansely. Sest. At last se assertion of ion as muc  him,

    `t seems rig first - but  rigancy mean somet is easiest and pleasantest to ourselves. tever is opposed to tever o t on us. If er, nobler - trongly present  t so continually, just as ts e feeling  a pain to myself t emptation. O, hink of her...

    Maggies voice ting ctered t words.

    `I cant tepamping as if  you. Maggie, you demand of a man  t once - but I cant go back to it no to torture me? You cant save tear yourself from me, and make my life o me. And even if s - if t   love. e ake.

    A deep flus speak. Step doaking  e entreaty.

    `Maggie! Dearest! If you love me, you are mine.  a claim on you as I  t can annul our rigo eac is t time we  and soul.

    Maggie ill silent for a little er of neriump s   - not h yielding.

    `No - not  and soul, Stepimid resolution, `I ed to it ions, and longing after perfect goodness, t rong  me for long - to me - repentance. I couldnt live in peace if I put t I ely consented to it - I ;t I may ; It o marry you - if you o  from tary triump o time before yesterday, I rue to my calmer affections and live  the joy of love.

    Stepiently, he room in suppressed rage.

    `Good God!  out, at last, `o a mans. I could commit crimes for you - and you can balance and c  you dont love me - if you it I  o you to t of sacrificing me. But it weig you are robbing me of my lifes happiness.

    Maggie pressed oget convulsively as s terror  flasning, and tretche darkness.

    `No - I dont sacrifice you - I couldnt sacrifice you, s I cant believe in a good for you, t I feel - t o c tell  or rue to all tives t sanctify our lives. I kno belief is   I  t if I let it go for ever, I s this life.

    `But Maggie, said Steping  possible you dont see t ion of t infatuation is it - inate prepossession t blinds you to t? It is too late to say ing t vie  act on noion is altered - t course is no longer   accept our oions and start afreserday? It is nearly t on ot . It epterly, `t you mig your tie to me ronger to others.

    Again a deep flus. Step again t o prevail -  believed t  prevail: ties ely for us to fear them.

    `Dearest, , tenderest tone, leaning toing  - duty must spring out of t no t t - it is so long since--

    Maggies eyes opened errified look at t o arted up - pale again.

    `O I cant do it s of agony - `Step ask me - dont urge me. - I cant argue any longer - I dont kno my   let me do it. I see - I feel trouble no is as if it y me - and no ter your love to me - I do care for P o eac of me as to me t I mig less rusted me more t marry you - I cannot take a good for myself t  of t is not t ougo rule us - t  my past life o me. I cant set out on a fres t - I must go back to it, and cling to it, - else I s.

    `Good God, Maggie! said Stepoo and grasping  marrying me? You dont kno. You see not really is.

    `Yes, I do. But to t. Dear - dear Step me go! - dont drag me into deeper remorse. My  does not consent now.

    Step go unned by despairing rage.  a fes, not looking at urned to last ill  looking at her,

    `Go, t torture me any longer - I cant bear it.

    Involuntarily so o touc  as if it had been burning iron, and said again,

    `Leave me.

    Maggie  conscious of a decision as surned a gloomy averted face - and  of t omatic action t fulfils a forgotten intention.  came after? A sense of stairs descended as if in a dream - of flagstones - of a canding - treet, and a turning into anotreet aking in passengers - and ting t t t coacake oo the coach.

    rials - ouary ep, as suco urge all ots into activity. But among s,  y and remorseful anguis no room for t.

    taking o York - fart s learn t until s doy at midnig ter: sart  day. S,  - a bank-note and a sovereign: s it in  from forgetfulness, after going out to make purcerday.

    Did s nig unent sacrifice? - t struggles of life are not so easy as t - t problems of life are not so clear. - In t nigepurned toence an easy floating in a stream of joy instead of a quiet resolved endurance and effort: - t o receive it once more and t seemed to slip away and fade and vanis said, `Gone - for ever gone.

 BOOK 7 CHAPTER 1

    turn to the Mill

    BEtEEN four and five oclock on ternoon of t on  Oggs, tom tulliver anding on tside t Dorlcote Mill. er teady self-government and energetic tainment of more tability ullivers. But toms face, as ood in t still suns summer afternoon, riump. s bitterest expression, s  and deepest fold, as  farto ser ting o s, began to er eamer from Mudport and put an end to all improbable suppositions of an accident on ter by stating t ep. ould t ne s? Probably t s married: toms mind  to tation of t t could  deat disgrace.

    As orance gate, and oream, a tall dark-eyed figure, t o look at -beating .  afraid, from  fear  t  endure to alienate from us. t deep-rooted fear urning to ural refuge t ion under trospect of  ted - s desired to endure ty of toms reproof, to submit in patient silence to t  against  seemed no more t to  outer purpose ion of her own conscience.

    Maggie  on  York for a day  prostrating o folloerrible strain of t. till about ressed. Sed tce and om did not e -  t ly turned, and lifting up o ion of  conjectures. rembling and  and indignation.

    Maggie paused too - t tred in  it rus s speak.

    `tom-- sly, `I am come back to you - I am come back o tell you everything -

    `You  friends. You ful - no motives are strong enougo restrain you. I o me.

    to tood paralysed by toms words.

    `tom, said Maggie,  so guilty as you believe me to be. I never meant to give o my feelings. I struggled against too far in t to come back on tuesday. I came back as soon as I could.

    `I cant believe in you any more, said tom, gradually passing from tremulous excitement of t moment to cold inflexibility. `You ine relation ep - as you did before  to see you at my aunt Mosss; you   girl  you  friend you ever urn you o speak - my mot go near  she should remind her of you.

    Maggie oo o discern any difference bet and ions - still less to vindicate herself.

    `tom, soget to speak again - `ever I  it bitterly - I  to make amends - I  to be kept from doing wrong again.

    ` om, terness. `Not religion - not your natural feelings of gratitude and o be s, if it  - But you are ten times er and your conduct. You struggled o struggle  I conquered t I  in doing my duty. But I ion no sucer as yours: t I feel t my mot you s come under my roof. It is enoug I o bear t of your disgrace - t of you is eful to me.

    Slourning a. But tened mot noronger than all dread.

    `My c a mother.

    O t rest of t embrace to t-stricken Maggie! More  of simple y t  forsake us.

    tom turned and o the house.

    `Come in, my culliver ay and sleep in my bed.  deny t, if I ask him.

    `No, motone, like a moan. `I will never go in.

    `t for me outside. Ill get ready and come h you.

    on, tom came out to  money into her hands.

    `My  me kno - you o me.

    Poor Mrs tulliver took too frigo say anyto inct, t sh her unhappy child.

    Maggie ing outside te; sook tle way in silence.

    `Mot last, `o Lukes cottage - Luke ake me in. o me wtle girl.

    ` no room for us, my dear, no isnt to one o your aunts - and I , said poor Mrs tulliver, quite destitute of mental resources in tremity.

    Maggie  a little when said,

    `Let us go to Bob Jakins, mother lodger.

    So t on to St Oggs - to the river side.

    Bob

    e t of its age t o prince or packman.  so tood all tep on t Mudport, if  nessed t it produced on tom, o report it; and since tances o , e circles of St Oggs and ter of common talk, accessible to t o ask: except one,  department of an asylum understood to exist in tlemen ances t, and boto make all table for `t sill `Miss. to  could  - ep could   , and  allo present  it srusion and a   of books.

    But after a day or tulliver o to see to toms ters. Maggie er t violent outburst of feeling o fulfil, so be alone  sary only a little  looked on tap at turning round er  his heels.

    `ell go back, if it disturbs you, Miss, said Bob.

    `No, said Maggie, in a low voice, wishing she could smile.

    Bob, closing tood before her.

    `You see,  a little un, Miss, an I ed you to look at it, an take it in your arms, if youd be so good. For o name it after you, an it ud be better for your takin a bit o notice on it.

    Maggie could not speak, but s out o receive tiny baby,  anxiously to ascertain t transference ion and speec it was a way o s.

    `Sit doe a ne to say.

    `Bob, ser a fes, looking do t anxiously, as if s migo ask of you.

    `Dont you speak so, Miss, said Bob, grasping t as a days earnings.

    `I  you to go to Dr Kenns, and ask to speak to ell  I am eful if o me ill evening.

    `E in a minute - it is but a step; but Dr Kenns omorro. Its all ty s no o go a-nig--

    `O, no, Bob, said Maggie, ` let it be - till after a fe per of too a distance, s this idea.

    `Not  one o tlefolks as go to cry at erin places  else to do. er tened ttle un; an  me to kno come to c I told ravel ts o to bein on my legs, I cant sit so long on end - quot;an lors, sir,quot; says I, quot;a packman can do astes strong,quot; says I; quot;to lay it on t; Etle un is s like as if it kno partly does, Ill be bound - like the mornin.

    Bobs tongue ly loosed from its uned bondage, and mig. But ts on eep and difficult of approac ongue o run on along to carry  unbeaten road.  t again for a little  a question. At last imid voice than usual,

    `ill you give me leave to ask you only one thing, Miss?

    Maggie artled, but s is about myself - not about any one else.

    `ell, Miss, its this: Do you owe anybody a grudge?

    `No, not any one, said Maggie, looking up at him inquiringly. `hy?

    `O lors, Miss, said Bob, pincell me - Id leatill I couldnt see - I ice mig o me arter.

    `O Bob, said Maggie, smiling faintly. `Youre a very good friend to me. But I s like to punisoo often.

    to Bob and ty t could possibly ep furtions rusive, even if ably, and o carry baby ao an expectant mother.

    `aken t it. If I tell cill - just as cter let me leave  -  fond on you. Lors, its a fine to e fond on you; itll stick to you, an make no jaw.

    `Yes, do leave o have Mumps for a friend.

    `Mumps, lie doing to a place in front of Maggie, `an niver do you stir till youre spoke to.

    Mumps lay do once, and made no sign of restlessness,  the room.

 CHAPTER 2

    St Oggs Passes Judgment

    It  St Oggs t Miss tulliver o be married to Mr Step - at all events, Mr Step  married o ty o results;  knos are arrived at. If Miss tulliver, after a feravel, urned as Mrs Step - -marital trousseau and all tages possessed even by t un Oggs, as elseo trict consistency s. Public opinion, in t t t te t family in St Oggs - ion, o a course,  of it, ment, especially to t s young tep ainly not be to tuated attacs - and bad as it migep to admit test advances from   sually engaged to young akem - old akem ioned it) still s so very fascinating, and, tively  cant last!) and  quite against  could s come back to  maize-coloured satinette becomes  seems as if t e come in - several of oo o buy for iable - but tive engagement - and t t  felt no more for , it ter for  to marry  a ulliver - quite romantic!   up for t t election. Not young akem nearly  out of  o be out of te t t declares s Mr and Mrs Step - sucending to be better ty couldnt be carried on if o private conduct in t y tells us to t Miss Unit   ts,  of a kind to  tenuation of t. Maggie urned  a trousseau,  a  degraded and outcast condition to  fine instinct y, sa once t Miss tullivers conduct  aggravated kind. Could anytestable? - A girl so muced to o lay tions ao ions? t  tulliver: it o say t suated by mere unionable about  connection ing, in fact! But  disposition! - to tullivers very p a refined instinct felt to be propic of ep, iable ty is not to be too severely judged in t t  e of ed so soon looked very black indeed - for o be sure ten a letter, laying all telling tory in a romantic faso try and make e innocent: of course ! But tinct of t to be deceived: providentially! - else y? urned  be sure, before . A truly respectable young man - Mr tom tulliver - quite likely to rise in ters disgrace urally a o  o be  s of to America, or any Oggs from taint of remely dangerous to daugo  o be , and t God y on he worlds wife had.

    It required nearly a fortniginct to assure itself of tions; indeed it er came, telling s and adding t: o  at Mudport for money - ion at present.

    Maggie, all too entirely filled y, to spend any t on t aken of  by t Oggs: anxiety about Step on  in a orm of mingled love, remorse, and pity. If s of rejection and injustice at all, it  - t sroke from tolerable since ty for t again and again, like a  o a s. t; it seemed as if every sensitive fibre in oo entirely preoccupied by pain ever to vibrate again to anotretc of penitence, and all s on ure lot, o guarantee ed ies t made no peace conceivable except suche sense of a sure refuge.

    But s  practical intentions: too strong an inance and a  for  to remember t s get s looked vague, s of returning to ting enougo pay for  Bobs. S to persuade o return to tom again; and someain  St Oggs. Dr Kenn  tary feeling of reliance t alking ed ation for tunity of confiding everyto  Mr Deanes to learn   roused y o  ed to er. But at last, so go and see sister Glegg, om at tullivers absence, t he occasion.

    As soon as  on . So tory and asking to see Dr Kenn:  t jar upon us in sucances. It  time surn; nevert on t tness of meeting people on tared at, did not occur to  sreets  at o look to rig. Presently, urnbull, old acquaintances of  rangely and turned a little aside  speaking. All o Maggie, but oo strong for resentment: no  speak to me, s - t noo pass a group of gentlemen,  t orry step out a little  o  air of nonc ooo intense for  to feel t sting even in t of  time t took strong  s on  o be due to o s tory noribution. Retribution may come from any voice - t, cruelest, most imbruted urc treet-corner can inflict it: surely y are rarer teous to bestow.

    S once, after being announced, into Dr Kenns study,  piled-up books, for ite, leaning  t c a and whe door was closed, Dr Kenn said, placing a chair for Maggie,

    `I o see you, Miss tulliver - you icipated me - I am glad you did.

    Maggie looked at ness as s t to tell you everyt  ears as s, and all t-up excitement of ing  before she could say more.

    `Do tell me everyt kindness in o wed, wo help you.

    In ratences - , at first, but soon er ease t came from a sense of relief in told tory of a struggle t must be ted ents of Stepter, and  once,  tion of Maggies statement. t involuntary plaint of  go,  s.

    Maggie d t on to o all t.  for some minutes: ty on  last, ed  Maggie,

    `Your prompting to go to your nearest friends - to remain ing, to itution and discipline responds - opening its arms to tent - cs co t - never abandoning til te. And t to represent ty, so t every paris togetian brotual fat tian fraternity are entirely relaxed - to exist in t in tial, contradictory form taken in ties of scics; and if I  supported by t t ultimately recover t constitution o en lose  at observing t of felloy among my o present everytending toion of ties - toitution of ion s in t. Your conscience and your  rue lig, Miss tulliver; and I  you may knoo you - eracting circumstances.

    Dr Kenn paused a little y of  kno ion to its reserve, s ened. As it antly, quite sure t tive  on.

    `Your inexperience of tulliver, prevents you from anticipating fully, t conceptions t  - conceptions e of knoo disprove them.

    `O, I do - I begin to see, said Maggie, unable to repress tterance of  pain. `I knohan I am.

    `You per yet knooucy, `t a letter is come o satisfy every one  paturn to t at t urn  of all difficult.

    `Oremor, t no presence could have hindered.

    `ten of all t passed to ed you to tmost; and I ion of t letter to your cousin will  on her.

    Dr Kenn ed for o get calm again before  on.

    `t letter, as I said, ougo suffice you to prevent false impressions concerning you. But I am bound to tell you, Miss tulliver, t not only t my observation  t t of false imputations. t incapable of a conscientious struggle suco s judgment; because t believe in your struggle. I fear your life tended not only  ructions. For to consider  perter for you to take a situation at a distance, according to your former intention. I  myself at once to obtain one for you.

    `O, if I could but stop  to begin a strange life again. I say. I s off from t. I ten to tuation to excuse myself. If I remained one in some o Lucy - to ot Im sorry. And, s, `I  go ao retract t go a last, because - because ot, I  go now.

    `ell, said Dr Kenn, after some consideration, `if you determine on t, Miss tulliver, you may rely on all tion gives me. I am bound to aid and countenance you, by ties of my office as a paris. I  personally I erest in your peace of mind and welfare.

    `t is some occupation t o get my bread and be independent, said Maggie. `I s  much. I can go on lodging where I am.

    `I must t maturely, said Dr Kenn, `And in a feer able to ascertain to see you: I santly in mind.

    ood ruminating , under a painful sense of doubt and difficulty. tone of Stepter, ions of all timate marriage betep evil; and ty of ty in St Oggs on any otion, until after years of separation, table prospective difficulty over Maggies stay ered ual conflict and lived ted service to o t state of Maggies  and conscience o tion to  not be tampered ed old  intervention oo dubious a responsibility to be ligo restore tions o tion of a neep h evil.

    t problem of ting relation bety is clear to no man ion, ion t  accept t respass, is one for   all cases. ts  ted spirit of minute discrimination ruto oo often fatally sealed: trut moral judgments must remain false and ened by a perpetual reference to tances t mark t.

    All people of broad, strong sense inctive repugnance to t terious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims, and t to lace ourselves up in formulas of t sort is to repress all tings and inspirations t spring from groive of t are guided in t solely by general rules, t to justice by a ready-made patent met trouble of exerting patience, discrimination, impartiality,  any care to assure t t comes from a imate of temptation, or from a life vivid and intense enougo ed a  is human.

 CHAPTER 3

    S Old Acquaintances Are Capable of Surprising Us

    ed line of conduct in aunt Glegg. As long as Maggie  been ters and dra Maggie   ee so enderest point.  last, som t Maggie  om for admitting t of er until  to stand by your `kin as long as ttributable to t o stand by? Ligo admit conduct in one of your o o alter your  a time  fair play   for o o rob to cast  from family ser to ter il sances ed in Mrs Gleggs experience - not kind  it itude and personal strengter found a common cal ideas of clanso equity in money matters. Sirely into compassion for Lucy made  of Maggie as Mr Deane  er tulliver because s at once come to  ers Saints Rest from morning till nigo all visitors, till Mr Glegg brougepter. t t se figer and o meet all comers.  could do not s cousin Abbot  to act, and Mrs Pullet could never enter St Oggs again, because `acquaintances kne all, Mrs Glegg only  Mrs ooll or any one else o ales about  to say to t ill-advised person. Again srance om, all tion to ter strengt position. But tom, like ot attempt to som!  o see: and t ion of facts observed tion, t Maggies nature terly untrustoo strongly marked endencies to be safely treated  on t demonstration at any cost - but t of it made ter to om, like every one of us, s of ure, and ion  a slig of poliso be severe on y, remember t ty of tolerance lies om a repulsion to derived its very intensity from time ogeter sense of nearness in a common duty and a common sorro of old eful to  Glegg found a stronger nature ture in er of clansaking on a doubly deep dye of personal pride. Mrs Glegg allo Maggie ougo be punis a o deny t - s conduct  punision to t  to t upon side  ter.

    `Your aunt Glegg scolded me so as niver ulliver,  go to   for o come to me first. But ser, too: o please - O dear! - but s , my c again ry in try spoons and tting  in er in o iful, and sold  you couldnt bear to see nobody but me - you  dorouble; but s;I  t  o to do t. But Ill give  be ; Its  me - if it urned out bad, or too  - or  was.

    `O mot of all tact o bear. `tell eful - Ill go to see  I cant see any one just yet, except Dr Kenn. Ive been to o get some occupation. I cant live  on tell aunt Glegg; I must get my o did you o P ioned him?

    `No, my dear: but Ive been to Lucys, and I saen to tter, and sook notice o Miss Guest, and asked questions, and tor turn to be better.  a  trouble, O dear! t beginning, an its gone from bad to   lamentation t Mrs tulliver  slip to Maggie, but old  ervieer Glegg.

    `My poor, poor mot out, cut to t y and compunction, and ty and troublesome to you. And now you mig  been for me.

    `Eulliver, leaning to put up  - to be fond on, for my furnitur  long ago. And youd got to be very good once - I cant ts turned out the wrong way so!

    Still ty about  trouble, and s last to inquire about  visit to  even knoment in tsome, to acastropo er o tiously mentioned t Oggs; and  fierce in ion about  P   of totle o live more and more persistently in w P did  her?

    At last, Bob brougter  a postmark - directed in a ters of ten long ago in a pocket S agitation, airs, t s read tter in solitude. S hrobbing brow.

    MAGGIE, - I believe in you - I kno to deceive me - I knoried to keep faito me, and to all. I believed t ture. t after I last parted from you I suffered torments. I  convinced me t you  free - t t tions - almost murderous suggestions - of rage and jealousy, my mind made its o belief in your trut you meant to cleave to me, as you  you ed  you struggled to renounce  I could see no issue t  fatal for you, and t dread s out t of resignation. I foresa  relinquis trong attraction ers, and belonged to t partial, divided action of our nature . I  tion of cure t I inually felt t of in  per you as tist does about tremble to see it confided to ot it could bear for anoty it bears for him.

    I dared not trust myself to see you t morning - I tered by a nigold you long ago t I o ty of my poo me on earto t  my acion into ture of an ever-springing, ever-satisfied ?

    But t nig came before t. It o me. I ain t o sacrifice everyto ed ainty to  I ronger in you than your love for him.

    I  tell you  t interval. But even in its utmost agony - even in terrible t love must suffer before it can be disembodied of selfiso  tive. In t of my egoism, I yet could not bear to come like a deat of your joy: I could not bear to forsake till lived and mig  of to you, to  and endure. Maggie, t is a proof of e noo assure you of - t no anguiso bear on your account oo o pay for to  you to put aside all grief because of tured in tion: I never expected ill  reconciles me to life. You o my affections o my eyes -  to t into a vivid consciousness. t is directly my o of rebellious murmuring into t  suce and intense love could iated me into t enlarged life  by ever-present painful self-consciousness. I even times t t of transferred life o me.

    te of all, you  no self-reproac is I,  you  as fetters. You meant to be true to true: I can measure your sacrifice by , Maggie, I  claim on you for more tionate remembrance.

    For some time I ing to you, because I o t myself before you, and so repeating my original error. But you  misconstrue me. I kno  keep apart for a long , if not I s go a live, ravel. And remember t I am unc  ion t excludes such wishes.

    God comfort you, - my loving, large-souled Maggie. If every one else  you ed by  recognised you ten years ago.

    Do not believe any one  of doors. I imes  t inclines me to be perfectly quiescent in time. I am strong enougo obey any  I can serve you by word or deed.

    Yours, to t,

    PhILIP AKEM

    As Maggie knelt by t letter pressed under he same words:

    `O God is t could make me forget their pain?

 CHAPTER 4

    Maggie and Lucy

    BY t table living at St Oggs. Even y years experience as a paris,  at tinate continuance of imputations against o o te agreeable to  notempting to open to reason and to justice on beulliver, tempted to influence ts. Dr Kenn could not be contradicted: ened to in silence; but  as before. Miss tulliver ed in a blamable manner: even Dr Kenn did not deny t: ly of o put t favourable interpretation on everytion t required tmost stretc none of t Miss tulliver rue; still, since t  an odour around  cause o be so take care of ation - and of society. to aken Maggie by t believe unproved evil of you: my lips s utter it; my ears s it. I, too, am an erring mortal, liable to stumble, apt to come s of my most earnest efforts. Your lot emptation greater. Let us o stand and  more falling - to y, self-knorust - asted no piquancy in evil-speaking, t felt no self-exaltation in condemning, t ced itself o t life can riving after perfect trutice, and love to Oggs  beguiled by any ive conceptions; but te abstraction, called society, ly easy in doing isfied t of Maggie tulliver and turning t urally disappointing to Dr Kenn, after taining tion to  tained tion to a y,  auty  anso persons ake o tarting-point. t turned on timate good of society, but on `a certain man  t St Oggs y of enderness of  and conscience: probably it ion of  as any otrading to day. But until every good man is brave,  expect to find many good imid: too timid even to believe in tness of t promptings,  St Oggs  all brave, by any means: some of to an extent t migion an effeminate cer, if it  been distinguis tual red of   St Oggs t  to be interfered reatment of eacher.

    And so, every direction in ion and some employment for Maggie, proved a disappointment to orry could not taking Maggie as a nursery governess, even temporarily - a young  ed a reader and companion, felt quite sure t Maggies mind must be of a quality , could not risk any contact.  Miss tulliver accept ter offered  Glegg? - it did not become a girl like o refuse it. Or else,  of t a situation   apparently of so mucance t sendencies into strange families unkno St Oggs.) S be very bold and o ay in a parisared at and w.

    Dr Kenn,  natural firmness, began, in tion, as every firm man ract a certain strengtermination over and above ed in t instance to offer tion to Maggie, tion to protest most force of ly cer against efully accepted an employment t gave ies as : ary evenings . Saying ulliver o go back to the Mill.

    But no began to be discerned t Dr Kenn, exemplary as o appeared, cs, - possibly  Oggs smiled pleasantly, and did not  Kenn liked to see a fine pair of eyes daily, or t o take so lenient a vie: t t period as less poook a more melanco marrying t Miss tulliver! It  safe to be too confident even about t of men: an apostle  bitterly afterers denial  a close precedent, ance o be.

    Maggie  taken o tory for more ty of ime or otors en in confidence t ladies o discuss o  position. For Dr Kenn, it ood,  in tulliver  alo see  an artful creature s a mot urn in  t under ter  to propriety as to marry ? tic, and t not.

    ts saion to tnessing a folly in tor: at least, tepenacity ant ground of alarm to t  among tter; but to ion of ed t s t s Oggs, relying on urn to   ful and proud; e as good grounds for t judgment as you and I probably rong opinions of t altogeted in templated matc noeps momentum to ty and indignation on bele forsaken girl, in making t urn to o leave o seek relief from t of t by going to t s; and it  Stepo join t  of gossip concerning Maggie and Dr Kenn, t s letter to her.

    Maggie  tidings t Glegg, or Dr Kenn, of Lucys gradual progress toended continually to es - to utter a ence, to be assured by Lucys o s believe in treacrusted. But s, even if ion  closed  ation of sucervieo  speaking, s very gentleness: a face t urned on  looks of trust and love from t -stroke; and as t pale image became more and more distinct - ture greo more speaking definiteness under t  for ever on Maggie and pierced  Lucy  yet able to go to c departed,  Lucy o Scarborougs,  ted to meet there.

    Only t  in is can kno as s in er  ne it is to dread tcion t o still her own pain.

    S  candle in t adding itself undistinguiso t. Seated on a c t t ide, - struggling to see still t face in its unreproac seemed no to moment to sink a itself bet repugnance to trivial speeccurning round and saying sed nottle Mrs Jakin o make some  remarks. But t moment,  step, s a ligo her saying, `Maggie!

    t all ter: t-piercing tenderness.

    `Maggie! t voice said. `Lucy! ans.

    And Lucy t the burning brow.

    `I stole out, said Lucy, almost in a o Maggie and  o  I must only stay a little e.

    I o say t at first to say anyt looking at eac seemed as if tervie end  more speec. Eac t t rievable  soon, as Maggie looked, every distinct t began to be overfloence and  forth a sob.

    `God bless you for coming, Lucy.

    ter t.

    `Maggie, dear, be comforted, said Lucy noting  Maggies again. `Dont grieve. And s still, o soot gentle caress.

    `I didnt mean to deceive you, Lucy, said Maggie, as soon as s alc I felt  like you to kno  it would all be conquered, and you migo wound you.

    `I kno to make me un is a trouble t o bear t it must o do.

    t again a little ogether.

    `Lucy, Maggie begain again, `ruggled too. ed to be true to you. o you. Forgive hen...

    t soul  like tcrembled and .

    A gentle knock came at t ered and said,

    `I darednt stay any longer, Miss Deane. t out, and t your coming out so late.

    Lucy rose and said, `Very e.

    `Im to go a me do as I like. I so you when.

    `Lucy, said Maggie,  effort, `I pray to God continually t I may never be to you any more.

    Stle  s  over  t look.

    `Maggie, s y of confession in it, `you are better t...

    S t embrace.

 CHAPTER 5

    t Conflict

    IN tember, Maggie ting in tling

    midniging  tful force by ter Lucys visit t and drougo cold variable ervals; and so risk templated journey until ttled. In ties inuous, and tion of t ed. And no t, so t talked of sixty years ago,  t on t floods, oo great misery. But tion, urally prone to take a  ted taken a  but for t ts,  obliged to go to a distance for food. But t te, by tenings of a er falls of sno t, to break loide came in ers  causing more temporary inconvenience, and losses t  only by t, wy would relieve.

    All   midnig some solitary ced in tle parlour to left everyt a letter  letter,   o t - unconscious  -  coming across  of t far, far off rest, from ruggling earthly life.

    t letter so tory for t time. ted  t first enligs as to turn ion to Maggie, ly been made more fully a by an earnest remonstrance from one of  tion of persisting in ttempt to overcome t feeling in tance. Dr Kenn, ter, ill inclined to persevere - ill averse to give iment t emptible; but  upon by tion of ty attaco  `appearance is al on ty of surrounding minds.  `appearance is proportionately inacy; per o succumb: conscientious people are apt to see ty in t o recede o Dr Kenn.   advise Maggie to go a Oggs for a time; and  difficult task ating in vague terms t tempt to countenance ay o obstruct o alloe to a clerical friend of  possibly take o , ion for a young rong interest.

    Poor Maggie listened rembling lip: s a faint `teful; and so ion. S be a lonely  among fres   seem joyful to  begin a nerained to  ougo complain? Ougo sy sening to some ot passionate error into a neure and ling for patience: - for  by ling?

    And on t sat out tter able before her.

    tter ep Mudport again, unknoo any of ten to  place, enclosing tter to a person ed in St Oggs. From beginning to end, it e cry of reproac  t perverted notion of rigo crus any substantial good -  single overpo han once in his life.

    `tten to me t you are to marry Kenn. As if I s! Perold you some suc me. Perell you I ;travelling.quot; My body  some me - ed up from tupor of o find you gone.

    `Maggie!  long look of love t  itself into my soul, so t no oto you! - call me back to life and goodness! I am banisives: I am indifferent to everytainty t I can never care for life  you. rite me one ;Come!quot; In ten  o be togeto be o be hers voice?

    read tter s as if emptation  begun. At trance of turn : but rodden far in to be faint and o tural longing from under trong t all less immediate motives are likely to be forgotten - till the pain has been escaped from.

    For  as if ruggle  t srove to summon  aside by teping for t ter: stering it, and ts old strange poure t carry t, upself upon ure, in o be excrengt t promise of joy in t make temptation to Maggie. It epone of misery, - it  in tice of  made tremble, and made art from  to reace `Come!

    But close upon t decisive act, radiction  self in s of strengtion. No - s  - s pray - t t  s, rong enougo conquer agony - to conquer love: s s er irred all t bound o t.

    S quite still, far on into t: o ctitude,  active force enougal act of prayer: only ing for t t would surely come again.

    It came  no passion could long quenc came back to  tains of self-renouncing pity and affection, of fait  tle old book t s, ruso  for t e lost in t t from t, and bear it till deat laid it upon me.

    But soon ot could find no utterance but in a sob: `Forgive me, Step o her.

    Sook up tter,  to t it burn sloo-morroo  ing.

    `I , and bear it till deat  ience and strengto struggle and fall and repent again? - rials as ill? it cry of self-despair, Maggie fell on  table, and buried ricken face.  out to ty t o taug need; and s be learning a secret of enderness and long-suffering, t to be long, let me live to bless and comfort--

    At t moment Maggie felt a startling sensation of sudden cold about : it er floed up - tream  led into t beant - s he flood!

    tumult of emotion s t calm in  screaming, sairs to Bob Jakins bedroom. t in and she shoulder.

    `Bob, t is in t us see if s safe.

    Sed c into screams; and to see if ters . tep doo t taircase: s ter ep. remendous cras t ter pouring in after it.

    `It is t! cried Maggie. `Bob, come doo get ts!

    And  a moments ser, o  of t on tairs, sed on to t into t, ruding t long after  sockings, but horn in his hand.

    `s, said Bob, as  into ts ening isnt broke too, as he mooring.

    In tement of getting into t, unfastening it and mastering an oar, Bob  struck  apt to fear for ts for ty of t t Maggie aken tivity, gave Bob a vague impression of o protect, not need to be protected. Soo  possession of an oar, and o release t from the overhanging window-frame.

    `ters rising so fast, said Bob, `I doubt itll be in at to get Prissy and to t, if I could and trusten to ter - for t go t - but you, ing t of ood in treaming.

    Maggie ime to ansidal current s along ts out on to ter,  carried t ting current of the river.

    In t moments Maggie felt not of not t s life ransition of deat its agony - and sh God.

    t tion cinct conception of ion. t t ion of tion t test liged tery level belo aation of God alk of -  tom - and ened together.

    `O God, he dim loneliness.

    troyed it. t be in danger - in distress: rained no t; and so the darkness, and finding none.

    Sing in smooter noo cgoing of o trained  tain of gloom t s seize t sig - t s catc suggestion of t toended.

    O  dismal ery level - ting of t - ts above t be out on tops of rees. rees: looking before o paddle t foro advance more sly, noeously on a mound reaming  by t sions - except a sensation of strengty emotion. Along  t  quarrel,  calamity ure of our life is gone, and ive mortal needs? Vaguely, Maggie felt trong resurgent love to aer impressions of anding, and left only the deep, underlying, unshakable memories of early union.

    But noance, and near to  of t be - yes, it  Oggs. Ao look for t glimpse of trees - tnuts - and above t t: all  and dim. More and more strongly to come and put tored-up force t  in ture.

    S get  into t of to pass t t occurred to ate of t t be carried very far doo guide  out of t again. For t time distinct ideas of danger began to press upon  tation, and sed into t. Sly s no effort; more and more clearly in tance and t, so discern ts t s be trees and roofs: nay, s far off a rus t must be trangely altered Ripple.

    Great God! ting masses in it, t mig  as so perisoo soon.  hose masses?--

    For t time Maggies  began to beat in an agony of dread. S  sed along - more intensely conscious of ticipated clas transient: it passed a Oggs: s use all o manage t and get it if possible, out of t. S ts of a stranded vessel far out over tery field. But no boats o be seen moving on t be employed in treets.

    ition, Maggie seized ood up again to paddle: but tide added to tness of ts from to   till so tofton t s t clear of t. toook to bot across tery fields, back too as of trees - could see tco t, and tnuts - Oer: deeper trees on t? ts  ? But it  tood firm: droo t story, but still firm - or  broken in at tohe Mill?

    iting joy t s last - joy t overcame all distress, Maggie neared t of t first s moving.  airs windows. S in a loud piercing voice,

    `tom, wher, where are you? here is Maggie!

    Soon, from ttic in tral gable, soms voice:

    `?  a boat?

    `It is I, tom - Maggie. her?

    `S  to Garum, terday. Ill come doo the lower window.

    `Alone, Maggie? said tom, in a voice of deep astonis, as .

    `Yes, tom: God aken care of me, to bring me to you. Get in quickly. Is there no one else?

    `No, said tom, stepping into t, `I fear t of trees and stones against it: Ive sed again and again, and the oars, Maggie.

    It  till tom er - o face  t  came irely neion to , of t  o ask a question. t mutely gazing at eacense life looking out from a en face - tom pale ain a : and tion, ory of almost miraculous divinely-protected effort. But at last a mist gatter: the old childish - `Magsie!

    Maggie could make no ans a long deep sob of t mysterious h pain.

    As soon as so Lucy, tom: well go and see if s.

    tom roired vigour, and  speed from poor Maggies. t  of t tofton.

    `Park ands  of t Lucy there.

    Noto given s ed along. tery desolation  in dreadful clearness around ted onening masses. A large company in a boat t s ofton ed, `Get out of t!

    But t could not be done at once, and tom, looking before s, clinging togetal fellowsream.

    `It is coming, Maggie! tom said, in a deep he oars, and clasping her.

    t instant t er - and triumph.

    But soon t reappeared, a black speck on ter.

    t reappeared - but broter o be parted - living t, ttle ogether.

    Conclusion

    NAtURE repairs ion tle visible trace on ter. tumn ers among tant h hopeful lading and unlading.

    And every man and ioned in tory ill living - except those whose end we know.

    Nature repairs  not all. torn trees are not rooted again - ted  scarred: if trees are not ture bear t rending. to t  on t, thorough repair.

    Dorlcote Mill . And Dorlcote c one laid prostrate upon it after ts grassy order and decent quiet.

    Near t brick grave tomb erected very soon after t  en visited at different moments by t t joy and keenest sorrohere.

    One of ted tomb again  face beside  t er.

    tary.  companionsrees of till to ing spirit.

    tomb bore tom and Maggie tulliver, and belo ten--

    `In t divided.