tmas holidays

    FINE old Cmas y t year in t fas off s of ening contrast of frost and sno and river-bank in undulations softer t lay liest finisand out  ill it fell from t cloturnip-field eness and made tces s, and ed beast stood as if petrified `in unrecumbent sadness; too ill pale cloud - no sound or motion in anyt t floing sorro old Cmas smiled as -door o ligness, to deepen all t to t to prepare a s imprisonment t rengtive fellole fragrance; ant . But t  t o bless men impartially, it is because ime, ing purpose, still  secret in y, sloing .

    And yet tmas day, in spite of toms fres in , , somee so   as abundant on telpieces and picture-frames on Cmas Eve aste as ever,  scarlet clusters er midnigural singing, Maggie al, in spite of toms contemptuous insistence t tc of trembled ian clot aing on ted cloud. But t c o lift t toast and ale from tc t e ant sermon, gave te festal cer to t and uncle Moss, ors of t parlour fire, ; t, as if it co ans; t s golden oranges, bros, and talline ligmas  om could remember; it inguishing, by superior sliding and snowballs.

    Cmas  so Mr tulliver. e and defiant, and tom, t  some of t oppressed Maggie  louder and more angry in narration and assertion . ttention t tom migrated on s and racted by a sense t t ted  a good deal of quarrelling. Noom  fond of quarrelling, unless it could soon be put an end to by a fair stand-up figable talk made able, ted to ion t y in t.

    ticular embodiment of ting Mr tullivers determined resistance , ion  er er) an infringement on Mr tullivers legitimate ser-poo ration, and akems advice  carried ulliver considered,  of laensity of ion against Pivart, empt for a baffled adversary like Dix began to tac. o-day except Mr Moss,  to Mr tullivers arguments on tionsary obligation; but Mr tulliver did not talk ile intention of convincing alked to relieve rong efforts to keep e of to t, and interested in everyt affected ened and put in a en as maternal preoccupations allowed.

    `s ne it? s oime, nor yours either, before I was married.

    `Neulliver, e Mills been in our family a ter, and nobody ever  meddling ill t Bincomes farm out of ;snap.quot; But Ill pivart ulliver, lifting  ion in an unmistakable manner.

    `You  be forced to go to lay.

    `I dont kno I knoions - if to be brougo bear o t side. I knotom of it:  akem to back ells  touc: but t takes a big raskil to beat  to be found, as knos o to lose Brumleys suit for him?

    Mr tulliver rictly  man, and proud of being , but  in laice could only be acronger knave to frustrate a  of cock-fig y to get a game bird  pluck and trongest spurs.

    `Gores no fool - you neednt tell me t, ly, in a pugnacious tone, as if poor Gritty  laies, `but, you see,  up to ters a very particular t pick it up cs s to Old s plain enougs ts and ter, if you look at it straig a mill, you must er to turn it; and its no use telling me, Pivarts erigation and nonsense  stop my o er better t. talk to me os common sense, as Pivarts dykes must do me an injury. But if ts t tom to it by and by, and  find a bit more sense in t t comes to.

    tom, looking round y, at t of s, unttle  kneaneously expressed iments in a piercing yell, and  to be appeased even by toration of ttle, feeling apparently t t taken from s force. Mrs Moss o anoto Mrs tulliver  t if it o be ttle t baby clamoured for - sood baby. tifiable yell being quieted, Mrs Moss looked at er-in-law and said,

    `Im sorry to see brot out about ter work.

    `Its your brot sort before I ulliver, o Mrs Moss, in any case  matter of pure admiration. Amiable Mrs tulliver,   o ural t sy, even as t Dodson, over a er empered, untidy, prolific ion enoug only for  c for any number of collateral relations.

    `I  go to lall end. And t doesnt allays s a ric I can make out, and tly get their own way.

    `As to t, said Mrs tulliver, stroking  ricers  o do pretty muc t I times I salk about tion; and my sisters lay all t to me, for t kno is to marry a man like your broter Pullet ill night.

    `ell, said Mrs Moss, `I dont t got any s of o find s deal easier to do w pleases ones o be puzzling w else one should do.

    `If people come to talk o doing ulliver,  imitation of er Glegg, `Im sure your brot ed a long  laion no up in till o bed at nigradict ;ell Mr tulliver, do as you like; but  go to la;

    Mrs tulliver, as  influence over o do eit se impulses t ening to ulliver into `laullivers monotonous pleading less its s migo t proverbial feat or discredit of breaking trictly impartial vie rato lie  of feat peril t an ot feat settle on it  misc t Mrs tullivers feeble beseec in virtue of y; but ire assent to ative of t ulliver, to let t t to domineer over  a male tulliver o four female Dodsons, even them was Mrs Glegg.

    But not even a direct argument from t typical Dodson female  o lao so muc of akem, continually fres of too able attorney on market days. akem, to ain knoap ttom of Pivarts irrigation: akem ried to make Dix stand out, and go to la t ionably akem o lose t about t of road and t made a tunity of damaging private property to  akems rascality  peculiarly aggravated kind ion to t form of rigullivers interests and opinions. And as an extra toucterness, tly, in borroo carry a little business to akems office on . A  ious t La more like  ured man,   you  upon against akem. Gore y: but t amount of  equivalent to seeing tone  as Mr tulliver er er and in t inference t Pivart  a leg to stand on in tion, able suspicion t akem o s tionally) irrefragable inference t. But t to laulliver to employ Counsellor ylde on ead of  admirable bully against  of seeing a ness of akems made to perspire and become confounded, as Mr tullivers ness o tributive justice.

    Mucion ulliver on ts during urning of to side, as ternately; but t ill out of sigo be reac argument and iteration in domestic and social life. t initial stage of te ion of t of Mr tullivers vie t tire circle of ions ake time, and at tom o scems to be detected in atement of t Pivart, or any more specific indication of t on taking against t rasravener of t er er. Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate  instead of progress, and Mr tullivers  ainly more and more palpable. If t, t Pivart h akem.

    `Fatom, one evening near to send o Mr Stelling. It isnt true -  o be sent to France. You  like me to go to sch akems son, shall you?

    `Its no matter for t, my boy, said Mr tulliver. `Dont you learn anyts all. tur, and takes after  mucs a sign akem telling, as o him, and akem knows meal from bran.

    Mr tulliver in   t o ages as akems: but tom  at all easy on t: it om co  freedom wion.