Maggie and Lucy

    BY t table living at St Oggs. Even y years experience as a paris,  at tinate continuance of imputations against o o te agreeable to  notempting to open to reason and to justice on beulliver, tempted to influence ts. Dr Kenn could not be contradicted: ened to in silence; but  as before. Miss tulliver ed in a blamable manner: even Dr Kenn did not deny t: ly of o put t favourable interpretation on everytion t required tmost stretc none of t Miss tulliver rue; still, since t  an odour around  cause o be so take care of ation - and of society. to aken Maggie by t believe unproved evil of you: my lips s utter it; my ears s it. I, too, am an erring mortal, liable to stumble, apt to come s of my most earnest efforts. Your lot emptation greater. Let us o stand and  more falling - to y, self-knorust - asted no piquancy in evil-speaking, t felt no self-exaltation in condemning, t ced itself o t life can riving after perfect trutice, and love to Oggs  beguiled by any ive conceptions; but te abstraction, called society, ly easy in doing isfied t of Maggie tulliver and turning t urally disappointing to Dr Kenn, after taining tion to  tained tion to a y,  auty  anso persons ake o tarting-point. t turned on timate good of society, but on `a certain man  t St Oggs y of enderness of  and conscience: probably it ion of  as any otrading to day. But until every good man is brave,  expect to find many good imid: too timid even to believe in tness of t promptings,  St Oggs  all brave, by any means: some of to an extent t migion an effeminate cer, if it  been distinguis tual red of   St Oggs t  to be interfered reatment of eacher.

    And so, every direction in ion and some employment for Maggie, proved a disappointment to orry could not taking Maggie as a nursery governess, even temporarily - a young  ed a reader and companion, felt quite sure t Maggies mind must be of a quality , could not risk any contact.  Miss tulliver accept ter offered  Glegg? - it did not become a girl like o refuse it. Or else,  of t a situation   apparently of so mucance t sendencies into strange families unkno St Oggs.) S be very bold and o ay in a parisared at and w.

    Dr Kenn,  natural firmness, began, in tion, as every firm man ract a certain strengtermination over and above ed in t instance to offer tion to Maggie, tion to protest most force of ly cer against efully accepted an employment t gave ies as : ary evenings . Saying ulliver o go back to the Mill.

    But no began to be discerned t Dr Kenn, exemplary as o appeared, cs, - possibly  Oggs smiled pleasantly, and did not  Kenn liked to see a fine pair of eyes daily, or t o take so lenient a vie: t t period as less poook a more melanco marrying t Miss tulliver! It  safe to be too confident even about t of men: an apostle  bitterly afterers denial  a close precedent, ance o be.

    Maggie  taken o tory for more ty of ime or otors en in confidence t ladies o discuss o  position. For Dr Kenn, it ood,  in tulliver  alo see  an artful creature s a mot urn in  t under ter  to propriety as to marry ? tic, and t not.

    ts saion to tnessing a folly in tor: at least, tepenacity ant ground of alarm to t  among tter; but to ion of ed t s t s Oggs, relying on urn to   ful and proud; e as good grounds for t judgment as you and I probably rong opinions of t altogeted in templated matc noeps momentum to ty and indignation on bele forsaken girl, in making t urn to o leave o seek relief from t of t by going to t s; and it  Stepo join t  of gossip concerning Maggie and Dr Kenn, t s letter to her.

    Maggie  tidings t Glegg, or Dr Kenn, of Lucys gradual progress toended continually to es - to utter a ence, to be assured by Lucys o s believe in treacrusted. But s, even if ion  closed  ation of sucervieo  speaking, s very gentleness: a face t urned on  looks of trust and love from t -stroke; and as t pale image became more and more distinct - ture greo more speaking definiteness under t  for ever on Maggie and pierced  Lucy  yet able to go to c departed,  Lucy o Scarborougs,  ted to meet there.

    Only t  in is can kno as s in er  ne it is to dread tcion t o still her own pain.

    S  candle in t adding itself undistinguiso t. Seated on a c t t ide, - struggling to see still t face in its unreproac seemed no to moment to sink a itself bet repugnance to trivial speeccurning round and saying sed nottle Mrs Jakin o make some  remarks. But t moment,  step, s a ligo her saying, `Maggie!

    t all ter: t-piercing tenderness.

    `Maggie! t voice said. `Lucy! ans.

    And Lucy t the burning brow.

    `I stole out, said Lucy, almost in a o Maggie and  o  I must only stay a little e.

    I o say t at first to say anyt looking at eac seemed as if tervie end  more speec. Eac t t rievable  soon, as Maggie looked, every distinct t began to be overfloence and  forth a sob.

    `God bless you for coming, Lucy.

    ter t.

    `Maggie, dear, be comforted, said Lucy noting  Maggies again. `Dont grieve. And s still, o soot gentle caress.

    `I didnt mean to deceive you, Lucy, said Maggie, as soon as s alc I felt  like you to kno  it would all be conquered, and you migo wound you.

    `I kno to make me un is a trouble t o bear t it must o do.

    t again a little ogether.

    `Lucy, Maggie begain again, `ruggled too. ed to be true to you. o you. Forgive hen...

    t soul  like tcrembled and .

    A gentle knock came at t ered and said,

    `I darednt stay any longer, Miss Deane. t out, and t your coming out so late.

    Lucy rose and said, `Very e.

    `Im to go a me do as I like. I so you when.

    `Lucy, said Maggie,  effort, `I pray to God continually t I may never be to you any more.

    Stle  s  over  t look.

    `Maggie, s y of confession in it, `you are better t...

    S t embrace.