Mr tulliver Shows his eaker Side

    `SUPPOSE sister Glegg s ud be very ao o raise five ulliver to  evening, as sook a plaintive revieulliver een years  sained in all ty of saying te direction to triarcly retains to t its yout it can sraigulliver ing medium for teen years  it again to-day y.

    tion of ended directly to convince Mr tulliver t it  be at all ao kno mortgaging tgage, since noo lend money  security, Mr tulliver, getting  Mrs Glegg mig calling in  in, o be beo ers. o a family o put up  Mr tulliver did not choose.

    Mrs tulliver cried a little in a trickling quiet  presently sank into a comfortable sleep, lulled by t t salk everyter Pullet tomorroake to Garum Firs to tea. Not t so any distinct issue from t talk, but it seemed impossible t past events sinate as to remain unmodified w.

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    Mr tulliver, ude in action t may seem inconsistent  painful sense of ted puzzling nature of e deliberations ed; but it is really not improbable t t relation betly contradictory p for getting a strong impression t a skein is tangled, tcily at a single t o titude t Mr tulliver  day - ( dyspeptic) - on o Basset to see er Moss and   naturally occurred to  e for t to o pay in time, it o lessen tullivers spirited step migo knorongly confident t it will be easy.

    For Mr tulliver ion neitriking but, like oto ive effect t  in to be a mucantial man t to believe  us, it o t of remote pity  -necked neigricken o  jokes about ages as a man  of land; and turally kept up  ance. t flavour to -day, and if it  been for ts Mr tulliver en t tgage of tead. t  altoget, since one of ters fortune, o la likely to pay off gages, especially if ances o borrooo lofty to be represented by parc. Our friend Mr tulliver ured fibre in  like to give o a sister, o t superfluous ic of sisters, creating a necessity for mortgages, but e takes by  Mr tulliver tle  o  poor Gritty imes say t tremulousness in  t lanes, s, lying so far a-to to take a part of ts on suc paris up a due amount of irritation against Moss as a man  capital, o ried to  of t  er, and not act so foolis : in fact, Mr tulliver oo easy  terest run on for t roubled about t Mr tulliver ermined not to encourage suc lanes  likely to enervate a mans resolution by softening emper. trodden  days of er gave ed a ras stimulating snarl at tless someto do ate of ted fences t met  of rongly contributed to isfaction  unlucky agriculturist. If t Mosss fallo mig   groundless. Basset  landlord, a poor non-resident vicar, and rate, also poor. If any one strongly impressed o triumpances, end t t migo urge against t abstract proposition: I only kno in point of fact t mind rict keeping s circumstances. t seemed to tomed eye to lead noo eacience, to a distant  t in Basset o a centre of dissipation spoken of formally as t among intimates as `Dickisons. A large lo of tobacco modified by undetected beer-dregs, Mr Dickison leaning against t  to t as a last nigtered candle - all t seem a very seductive form of temptation; but ty of men in Basset found it fatally alluring ory afternoon; and if any  e t  a pleasure-seeking man, s more empically t  spend a s Dickisons from one suntide to anoto find fault ainly o-day. And noto Mr tulliver te, ed to pusick t acted as gates  to do, to t to get doim-bered buildings, up to tumble-do timely appearance of a coration of a plan ermined on, namely not to get doo be   , above tant  and co tle fat  o srikingly t the cheek was faded.

    `Broto see you, sionate tone. `I didnt look for you today. how do you do?

    `Oty ty eness, as if it oo for question. S once t  in a good   ure t people ake and on ty of tient, loosely-hung, child-producing woman.

    `Your  in tulliver, after a grave pause, during w, like che hen-coop.

    `No, said Mrs Moss, `but ato-field yonders. Georgy, run to te and tell fat do you, and take something?

    `No, no; I cant get do be going ly, said Mr tulliver, looking at tance.

    `And ulliver and t daring to press ation.

    `Oty oms going to a neo me. Its bad  o my money.

    `I tle uns  to see to . And I know so come - for so be sure!

    If Mrs Moss  astute ead of being one of t, s of noto propitiate eering praise of `ttle  entirely to o insist on s. But Maggie al amiable lig  Mosss: it  anytied ore ters of course at  Mosss. In spite of ullivers eyes got milder, and  look away from er as he said,

    `Ay: ss, I takes after our family: not a bit of hers in her.

    `Moss says, s like o be, said Mrs Moss, `t I t your uncle see you: .

    Lizzy, a black-eyed ce Mill. So Maggie in fire and strengto make tirely flattering to Mr tullivers fatherly love.

    `Ay, t alike,  ttle figure in take after our mot enougty, one e, half reproachful.

    `Four of em, bless em, said Mrs Moss, roking Lizzys  a brother apiece.

    `A t turn out and fend for tulliver, feeling t y rying to brace it by t a nt look to hers.

    `No: but I , said Mrs Moss, flas imidity, like a hered fire.

    Mr tulliver gave tle stroke on t and said angrily, `Stand still o tonis of t innocent animal.

    `And t love one anot on, looking at ic purpose. But surned to but  ther.

    t arro straigo Mr tullivers .  a rapid imagination, but t of Maggie o  long in seeing ion to er side by side oms relation to Maggie. ould ttle her hard upon her?

    `Ay, ay, Gritty, said tness in one. `But Ive allays done w I could for you, ing himself from a reproach.

    `Im not denying t, broteful, said poor Mrs Moss, too fagged by toil and co rengt for any pride. `But  a while youve been, Moss.

    `? said Mr Moss, feeling out of breat you ligulliver?

    `ell, Ill just get doalk ulliver, feeling t o s of resolve if er  present.

    doo toree arbour, ood tapping fully after them.

    trance into tree arbour surprised several fo ing tcy ground, and at once took fligulliver sat doapping tick, as if ed some ion by observing, one,

    `  Corner Close, I see? and never a bit o dressing on it. Youll do no good  this year.

    Mr Moss,  air of a macient-grumbling tone, ` do as t leave it to t money to play o put o to get out of it.

    `I dont kno isnt t paying interest, said Mr tulliver,  into a slig  natural and easy introduction to calling in money.

    `I kno, said Mr Moss, `but I  year, and hings have gone awkarder nor usual.

    `Ay, snarled Mr tulliver, `ty sacks ull never stand upright.

    `ell, I dont kno youve got to find ulliver, said Mr Moss deprecatingly, `I kno a day-labourer works harder.

    `s t, said Mr tulliver, s no capital to in? I  it from t; but youd neiten to me. And I cant lie out o My money any longer; for Ive got to pay five om an expense to me, as I s, even saying Id got back all as is my o look about and see hree hundred pounds.

    `ell, if ts er be sold up and ; I must part , to pay you and too.

    Poor relations are undeniably irritating: tence is so entirely uncalled for on our part, and t aly people. Mr tulliver ting quite as mucated o say angrily, rising from ,

    `ell, you must do as you can. I cant find money for everybody else as  look to my o lie out o my money any longer. You must raise it as quick as you can.

    Mr tulliver ly out of ttered t sentence and  looking round at Mr Moss  on to tc boy ing in a state of  its alleviations, for baby  gurgling sounds and performing a great deal of finger practice on t c could never overcome  t t t  its consolations. `ont you come in, brot ulliver  already in tirrup.

    `No, no; good-by, said urning his horses head and riding away.

    No man could feel more resolute till  outside te and a little ted lane; but before  turning, ten by some sudden t, for  stand still in t for tes, during  on more sides tly, after  of promptitude, Mr tulliver o t turned  to termined t by saying aloud, as ruck his horse,

    `Poor little om, belike, when Im gone.

    Mr tullivers return into tely ran in ing neo t Mrs Moss ep o sleep in entatious s  merely said,

    `to t her.

    `No, Gritty, no, said Mr tulliver, in a gentle tone. `Dont you fret - ts all - Ill make a s  t - only you must be as cliver and contriving as you can.

    Mrs Mosss tears came again at ted kindness, and shing.

    `Come, come! - ttle  fret... Ill allays be a good broto you.

    `t ears; turning to Lizzy, sch a small paper parcel.

    `Its boiled ty: it o carry it in your pocket?

    `Ay, ay, said Mr tulliver, putting it carefully in . `Good-by.

    And so table miller returned along t lanes rato  still   if er, it migend to make tom  some distant day, ake ; for simple people, like our friend Mr tulliver, are apt to cloto  y for `ttle owards er.