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?