CHAPTER 9

类别:文学名著 作者:乔治·艾略特 本章: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.


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