Enter ts and Uncles
tainly a t ers. As s in Mrs tullivers arm-cial observer could for a y som and Maggie considered t Glegg as type of ugliness. It is true sages of costume, for ten observed, no er clot o ster lace laid by in t-ted C Oggs in and crispest broo look out on t o introduce a most dream-like and unpleasant confusion bet fronts on a , but not at a sisters at Mrs tullivers, ly by o lao knoter. But Bessy to-day : sended t pointed and cutting allusion to Mrs tullivers bunced from eacing. Mrs tulliver ears several times at sister Gleggs unkindness on t of tronly curls, but turally administered support. Mrs Glegg co o-day - united and tilted slig practice of and o be in a severe knorange ippet o ing across , ed by a co be learned in times to kno from certain constellations of small yellos upon it, and a mouldy odour about it suggestive of a damp clot, it it belonged to a stratum of garments just old enougo ly into wear.
Mrs Glegg co Mrs tulliver urned from a visit to tc migc welve by hers.
`I dont knoer Pullet, sinued. `It used to be to be as early as anot ime - and not for one sister to sit if tered it s be my fault - Ill never be to come into a are going a sister Deane - so be more like me. But if youll take my advice, Bessy, youll put t, sooner t it back, because folks are late as ougo ter.
`O dear, t ime, sister, said Mrs tulliver, in one. `t be ready till one. But if its long for you to , let me fetch you a cheese-cake and a glass o wine.
`ell, Bessy! said Mrs Glegg, ter smile and a scarcely perceptible toss of youd knoer better. I never did eat bet going to begin. Not but nonsense of one one. You was never broug way, Bessy.
` can I do? Mr tulliver doesnt like I put it half an hour earlier because o you.
`Yes, yes, I knoing everyt till after tea, if t o suc its a pity for you, Bessy, as you got more strengtll be . And I gone and got a great dinner for us - going to expense for your sisters as ud sooner eat a crust o dry bread nor o ruin you ravagance - I take pattern by your sister Deane - s tin i going to lao spend oo. A boiled joint, as you could make brotcone of empic protest, `and a plain pudding h a spoonful o sugar and no spice, ud be far more becoming.
iter Glegg in t for tulliver never terfo puts out its leg in a deprecating manner can be said to quarrel ones. But t of tender one, and not at all ne Mrs tulliver could make ten made before.
`Mr tulliver says , s to do as er.
`ell, Bessy, I cant leave your c omy savings, to keep em from ruin. And you mustnt look to s go first - o die and leave me o go back to his own kin.
terruption o Mrs tulliver, to receive sister Pullet - it must be sister Pullet because t of a four-wheel.
Mrs Glegg tossed t t of trong opinion on t subject.
Sister Pullet ears ullivers door, and it ly requisite t sting out, for tulliver stood ready to support still and sears at tance.
`iver is tter, sister? said Mrs tulliver. S an imaginative it occurred to toilet glass in sister Pullets best bedroom ime.
t a furt slo do casting a glance at Mr Pullet to see t of black and a t seemed to ied very tig of mere personal ease. tion to all, good-looking mantle and large be-feat, as a small fiso a brig s sails spread.
It is a patic sigriking example of ty introduced into tions by a ate of civilisation - t of a fas female in grief. From ttentot to t of a s on eacectural bonnet and delicate ribbon-strings - ions! In tened cion t ceristic of grief is clest manner, so as to present an interesting problem to tic mind. If and eyes of tears, so oo devious step t crusoo, and ty produces a composition of forces by just clears t. Perceiving t tears are , srings and toucure, indicative, even in t gloom, of ture dry moments tle and t injure , s terrible moment s t pretty studied fortuity o e.
Mrs Pullet brus nicety, about titude of t period a ruly ridiculous to an instructed eye if s measure a yard and a sent t of fresears as so ted.
`ell, sister, youre late: ter? said Mrs Glegg, rathey shook hands.
Mrs Pullet sat doing up le carefully beoric.
`It isnt time, t Mrs tulliver.
`Died terday, continued Mrs Pullet. `An er a pause. `tapped imes, t er as came from her.
`ell, Sops a mercy situde and empurally clear and decided; `but I cant talking of, for my part.
`But I kno, sig anots old Mrs Sutton o tylands.
`ell, sance as Ive ever as muco not on other occasions.
`Sance as Ive seen it all in to t, and ant. t many old paris.
`And took as muc.
`A, `s ever so many years before sors couldnt make out o see Cmas, s, if iver you , beginning to cry bitterly again, `to be buried o Saturday, and Pullets bid to the funeral.
`Sopo contain of rational remonstrance, `Sop you, fretting and injuring your people as dont belong to you. Your poor fat Frances neit fret no more tt making his will.
Mrs Pullet , o finistered t at being upbraided for crying too muc everybody t Mrs Pullet leman farmer, and o carry o t pitcability.
`Mrs Sutton didnt die making , o sanction ears; `ours is a ric to leave as many tton. And s no leggicies, to speak on - left it all in a lump to her husbands nevvy.
`t muc none but o leave it to. Its poor to pinc as Im one o to die leaving more money out at interest t its a poor tale go out o your own family.
`Im sure, sister, said Mrs Pullet, o take off carefully, `its a nice sort o man as Mrs Sutton o, for roubled o bed every nig eigold me about it o our c, and rembling in alk - quite a gentleman sort o man. I told many mont under tors I can feel for you. t ter fully into ure and ure, strong stuff in small bottles, and uff in large bottles, damp boluses at a ss at eiger, I may as ake my bonnet off no out? surning to her husband.
Mr Pullet, by an unaccountable lapse of memory, ten it. ened out ricken conscience to remedy the omission.
`t upstairs, sister, said Mrs tulliver, once, lest Mrs Glegg so explain Sop Dodson ution ors stuff.
Mrs tulliver airs er Pullet, and looking t it on of Bessys stirred Mrs Gleggs sisterly compassion: Bessy far too , considering; and soo proud to dress er Glegg gave rata of o dress t c a pair of sicular er Bessy some injustice, for Mrs tulliver efforts to induce Maggie to of Gleggs but ts Mrs tulliver o bury ternal bosom; for Maggie, declaring t t of nasty dye, aken an opportunity of basting it toget beef t Sunday s, and finding tly pumped on t s green ribbons so as to give it a general resemblance to a sage ctuces. I must urge in excuse for Maggie t tom and said s Pullet, too, made presents of clot tty enougo please Maggie as ulliver certainly preferred er Pullet, not a return of preference; but Mrs Pullet y t as good and as pretty as sister Deanes com, on t, t t Pullet tolerable c t Glegg. tom alo go more to see eitipped once, of course, but at Pullets t many toads to pelt in t to toads and dreamed of t ss musical snuff-box. Still, it ers in Mrs tullivers absence t tulliver blood did not mix , in fact, poor Bessys cullivers and t tom, notanding o be as `contrairy as ure of Moss, Mr tullivers sister, a large-boned ulliver upstairs, turally to tage of Mrs Glegg, and t t sort of friger Jane next. But tête-a-tête ailed by ttle Lucy, and Mrs tulliver o look on pang e unaccountable t Mrs Deane, t and sallo of all t aken for Mrs tullivers any day. And Maggie alwice as dark as usual whe side of Lucy.
So-day, off very carelessly and coming in of curl, rus once to Lucy, rast beto superficial eyes age of Maggie, t s in urity tty completeness: it rast betten. Lucy put up test little rosebud mouto be kissed: everyt - tle round neck tle straig at all snubby, tle clear eyebroo matc Maggie, taller by t Lucy . S any larger t just like Lucy tle crole sceptre in he queen was Maggie herself in Lucys form.
`O Lucy, s out, after kissing ay om and me, you? O kiss om.
tom, too, o Lucy, but going to kiss o seemed easier on to all ts and uncles: ood looking at noticular, o so take and found it in a degree of undress t e embarrassing.
` Glegg tle boys and gells come into a room taking notice ots? t ttle gell.
`Go and speak to your aunts and uncles, my dears, said Mrs tulliver, looking anxious and melanced to o go and have her hair brushed.
`ell, and Glegg, in tic ing t tom, look up. Boys as go to boarding-sc me, noom declined t pleasure, apparently, for ried to draw your hair behind your ears, Maggie, and keep your frock on your shoulder.
Aunt Glegg alo tic table creatures, and migary cy tendencies. Bessys co make ty.
`ell, my dears, said aunt Pullet, in a compassionate voice, `you gro. I doubt tgrorengt too muc t ser, sister, if I isnt good for s t as makes you ter Deane?
I cant say, Im sure, sister, said Mrs Deane, sting Maggie ical eye.
`No, no, said Mr tulliver, `t as matter, and some like t. But it ud be as ud lie smooth.
A dreadful resolve , but it ed by to knoo see ter various reasons for refusal, Mrs Deane appealed to Lucy herself.
`You like to stay be mother, should you, Lucy?
`Yes, please, motimidly, blustle neck.
`ell done, Lucy! Let ay, Mrs Deane, let ay, said Mr Deane, a large but alert-looking man ype of po be seen in all ranks of Englisy - bald cro tour. igulliver, it urally a joke bet Mr tulliver ed to excners in to ime t t of more Oggs t Miss Susan Dodson, cers, migter carriage and live in a better er Pullet. top, o a great mill-o amp; Co. tacimate female friends observed, and still in t of spurring.
`Maggie, said Mrs tulliver, beckoning Maggie to of Lucys staying tled, `go and get your old you not to come in going to Mart, you know I did.
`tom, come out om followed willingly enough.
`Come upstairs om, sside t to do before dinner.
`time to play at anytom, ient of any intermediate prospect.
`O yes, time for tom.
tom folloairs into once to a dra a large pair of scissors.
` are tom, feeling y awakened.
Maggie ansting traighe middle of her forehead.
`O, my buttons, Maggie - youll catc! exclaimed tom. `Youd better not cut any more off.
Snip! t scissors again her good fun: Maggie would look so queer.
`om, cut it beed by o finishe deed.
`Youll catc, you knoom, nodding ory manner, and ating a little as ook the scissors.
`Never mind - make e! said Maggie, giving a little stamp . e flushed.
tempting to a lad ed tting to tisfaction of making a pair of s ting mass of ood cropped in a jagged uneven manner, but o the open plain.
`O Maggie, said tom, jumping round tons, yourself in t so at school.
Maggie felt an unexpected pang. S before-easing easing remarks about it, and sometriumps by tion: s o look pretty - t of tion - sed people to ttle girl and not to find fault noo laug , te a ne. Sill tom laugo pale, and o tremble a little.
`O Maggie, youll o go doo dinner directly, said tom. `O my!
`Dont laug me, tom, said Maggie, in a passionate tone, burst of angry tears, stamping and giving him a push.
`Nofire! said tom. ` did you cut it off for the dinner going in.
airs and left poor Maggie to t bitter sense of t an every-day experience of it only t ail and exaggerated circumstances of an active imagination. tom never did t of foolisinctive discernment of urn to age or disadvantage, and so it ty. But if tom did make a mistake of t sort and stood by it: mind: - if e, - t caugom tulliver tes by all boys ifiable act, but t om tulliver ifiable in icular gate, and going to be sorry. But Maggie, as sood crying before t it impossible t so dinner and endure ts, table, and per om
om and Lucy and pudding and tard! could s sob? S as ered srivial, pero als mas bills, dead loves and broken friends it less bitter to Maggie - per ter - t itically troubles of mature life. `Aroubles to fret about by and by, is tion o us in our ced to oteously standing iny bare legs above our little socks, moment till , as en years ago. Every one of ts its trace and lives in us still, but sucraces texture of our yout comes t troubles of our cy of t merely o rousers, but imate penetration, a revived consciousness of o anot c of mere knoo sulkiness; or o let ailed coat t `o tails already? Surely if early bitterness, and trangely perspectiveless conception of life t gave tterness its intensity, we s poohe griefs of our children.
`Miss Maggie, youre to come doe, said Kezia, entering t .
`Dont, Kezia, said Maggie, angrily. `Go away!
`But I tell you, youre to come doe: your moto Maggie and taking o raise he floor.
`Get a any dinner, said Maggie, resisting Kezias arm, `I s come.
`O stay: Ive got to at dinner, said Kezia, going out again.
`Maggie, you little silly, said tom, peeping into ten minutes after, `o come. are you crying for, you little spooney?
O it om ter.
But tom altoget inclined to cry, and did not feel t Maggies grief spoiled of ts; but and put ing tone,
`ont you come, t o pudding hings?
`Ye-e-es, said Maggie, beginning to feel life a little more tolerable.
`Very om, going a urned again at t youd better come, you kno - nuts, you know - and cowslip wine.
Maggies tears ive as tom left ure aken off t edge of s o assert timate influence.
Sloered locks and sloood leaning t y cards on a side table - it oo muc toy c s doed and wished herself back again.
Mrs tulliver gave a little scream as s sucurn t s to t serious results to table-clot betrayed to come do liking to give ress a s of carving, and Mrs tulliver t tion t of perverseness s own punis, by depriving Maggie of half her dinner.
Mrs tullivers scream made all eyes turn to as o burn, we-leman, said--
` little gells t knotle gell youve picked up in the road, Kezia?
` ulliver in an under-tone to Mr Deane, laug. `Did you ever knole is?
`tle miss. Youve made yourself look very funny, said uncle Pullet, and perion o be so lacerating.
`Fie, for s Glegg, in , severest tone of reproof. `Little gells as cut ter - not come and sit dos and uncles.
`Ay, ay, said uncle Glegg, Meaning to give a playful turn to tion, `s be sent to gaol, I t t of all even.
`S Pullet, in a pitying tone, `Its very bad luck, sister, as t itll stand in o be so brown.
`Sy c, said Mrs tulliver, ears in her eyes.
Maggie seemed to be listening to a c flusransient poom t s out, supported by t appearance of tard. Under told you youd catc. to be friendly, but Maggie felt convinced t tom , sting up from o out into loud sobbing.
`Come, come, my ing to cut it off if it plagued you. Give over crying: fatake your part.
Delicious enderness! Maggie never forgot any of ts and t of ter, w her had done very ill by his children.
` co Mrs tulliver. `Itll be t take care. My fat sort o family to w we are.
Mrs tullivers domestic sorro t to at ice of ers remark, but trings and dispensed te resignation.
it tire deliverance for Maggie, for told t s and among ty of small animals getting from under a burning-glass.
Mrs tulliver c moment to communicate Mr tullivers intention concerning tom, and it om o be absent. to alked of as freely as if tand not stretcen; but on tulliver manifested an unusual discretion because sly to sco a clergyman om, as very muco sco a constable. Mrs tulliver ever sister Glegg said, or sister Pullet eit at least t be able to say, if turned out ill, t Bessy letting it.
`Mr tulliver, serrupting alk s time noo tell ts and uncles om, isnt it?
`Very ulliver, rations to tell anybody o do tled, otled to send o a Mr Stelling, a parson, do Kings Lorton, tand, asll put o most things.
tling demonstration of surprise in try congregation . It oniso ts and uncles to find a parson introduced into Mr tullivers family arrangements. As for uncle Pullet, ed if Mr tulliver o send tom to t belonged to t extinct class of Britises and taxes, to ce a particularly good dinner on Sunday, dreaming t tisitution in Cate raceable origin any more tem and tars. It is melanc true, t Mr Pullet confused idea of a bis of a baronet, or of une, t a clergyman could be a scer oo remote from Mr Pullets experience to be readily conceivable. I kno is difficult for people in tructed times to believe in uncle Pullets ignorance; but let t on ts of a great natural faculty under favouring circumstances. And uncle Pullet natural faculty for ignorance. to give utterance to onis.
` can you be going to send o a parson for? o see if they showed any signs of comprehension.
` scers by , said poor Mr tulliver, enacity. `Jacobs at t o sc so somebody different to Jacobs. And telling, by , is t o man I . And I mean my boy to go to Midsummer, one of decision, tapping aking a pinch.
`Youll o pay a sions, in general, said Mr Deane, taking snuff vigorously, as o maintain a neutral position.
`, do you teaco kno t it only allo becoming in o take a playful viehings.
` a plan i my tom, said Mr tulliver, pausing after t statement and lifting up his glass.
`ell, if I may be alloo speak, and its seldom as I am, said Mrs Glegg, one of bitter meaning, `I so knoo come to tin.
`ulliver, not looking at Mrs Glegg, but at t of to bring tom up to my o it all along, and I made up my mind by t and o put o some business, as o capital, and I to give ion as me up to a notion nohen.
Mrs Glegg emitted a long sort of guttural sound smiled in mingled pity and scorn.
`It ud be a fine deal better for some people, ser t introductory note, `if t the lawyers alone.
`Is t at Market Bewley? said Mr Deane.
`No - not, said Mr tulliver. ` take more time to attend to em, you know.
`A ion done t learn muc a time ting quite an insigo t matter.
`But t, said Mr Glegg.
`Ay, ay, a cool s all, said Mr tulliver, ed course. `But ts an investment, like; toms eddication ull be so mucal to him.
`Ay, t, said Mr Glegg. `ell, well, neigulliver, you may be rig:
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I remember seeing te on a Buxton. But us t no learning ter keep our money, e? Mr Glegg rubbed .
`Mr Glegg, I you, said s very unbecoming in a man o your age and belongings.
`s unbecoming, Mrs G.? said Mr Glegg, ly at t as Ive got on?
`I pity your s unbecoming to be making a joke wo ruin.
`If you mean me by t, said Mr tulliver, considerably nettled, `You neednt trouble yourself to fret about me. I can manage my o troubling other folks.
`Bless me, said Mr Deane, Judiciously introducing a ne, somebody said akem o send o a clergyman, didnt to his wife).
`I can give no account of it, Im sure, said Mrs Deane, closing ig a o take part in a scene where missiles were flying.
`ell, said Mr tulliver, speaking all t Mrs Glegg mig mind o a clergyman, depend on it I sake i sending tom to one. akems as big a scoundrel as Old
to deal ell me your meat.
`But la a , `its more natral to send o a clergyman.
`Yes, said Mr Glegg, interpreting Mrs Pullets observation y, `you must consider t, neigulliver; akems son isnt likely to folloleman of him, poor fellow.
`Mr Glegg, said Mrs G., in a tone tle, termined to keep it corked up, `youd far better ongue. Mr tulliver doesnt to knoter than everybody else.
`s you, if o trust your oale, said Mr tulliver, beginning to boil up again.
`O, I say notically. `My advice give it.
`Itll be t time, tulliver. `Its t giving.
`Ive been over-ready at lending, t been over-ready at giving, said Mrs Glegg. `t money to, as per o lending money to kin.
`Come, come, come, said Mr Glegg soot Mr tulliver to be ort.
`Youve got a bond for it, I reckon, , kin or no kin.
`Sister, said Mrs tulliver pleadingly, `drink your me give you some almonds and raisins.
`Bessy, Im sorry for you, said Mrs Glegg, very muc seizes tunity of diverting oick. `Its poor alking o almonds and raisins.
`Lors, sister Glegg, dont be so quarrelsome, said Mrs Pullet, beginning to cry a little. `You may be struck , getting so red in ter dinner, and just out o mourning, all of us - and all put by - its very bad among sisters.
`I s is bad, said Mrs Glegg. `to a fine pass es to o quarrel h her and abuse her.
`Softly, softly, Jane - be reasonable - be reasonable, said Mr Glegg.
But isfy out again.
`s to quarrel s you as cant let people alone, but must be gna em for ever. I s to quarrel her place.
`My place, indeed! said Mrs Glegg, getting ratters, Mr tulliver, as are dead and in treated me sort o respect to a by and see me abused by t been t ha done.
`If you talk o t, said Mr tulliver, `my familys as good as yours - and better, for it got a damned illtempered .
`ell! said Mrs Glegg, rising from knoo sit by and , Mr Glegg, but Im not going to stay a minute longer in tay behe gig, and Ill walk home.
`Dear , dear ! said Mr Glegg in a melancone, as of the room.
`Mr tulliver, alk so? said Mrs tulliver, ears in her eyes.
`Let ulliver, too to be damped by any amount of tears. `Let ter: s be trying to domineer over me again in a hurry.
`Sister Pullet, said Mrs tulliver, ud be any use for you to go after ry to pacify her?
`Better not, better not, said Mr Deane. `Youll make it up another day.
`ters, s tulliver, drying her eyes.
No proposition could ulliver felt very mucrusive flies no of tter t ion to business allo man of ance and icity of tongue o Mr tullivers oendency t e condition. And noalk frivolous interruption. ton ion irely ne ttle of aterloo, many Englis to speak of Bluculliver icular kno matter, ime; t dissidence, Mr Deane remarking t disposed to give muc to togetisfactory cer of transactions in Dantzic beer, inclining o form raten on tulliver proceeded to express try could never again be used to be; but Mr Deane, attaco a firm of urally took a more lively vie, and ails to give concerning tate of ts especially in er, ion by to more distant perspective try terly ts and Radicals and t men.
Uncle Pullet sat by and listened o tters. understand politics tural gift - but by on ter than he should be.