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 tête-a-tête , 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 tête-a-tête
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.