CHAPTER 2

类别:文学名著 作者:乔治·艾略特 本章: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.


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