CHAPTER 3

类别:文学名著 作者:乔治·艾略特 本章:CHAPTER 3

    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?


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