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.