Maggies Second Visit

    t breac readily mended and for some time to eacural antipatemperament made resentment an easy passage to red, and in Pransition seemed to y in ion, but tibility t made o a strong sense of repulsion. ture to assert it on ty of a great classic - is not given to use eetrument of attack; and tom  bovine lad, ionable objects in a truly ingenuous bovine manner; but enderest point, and e pain as if udied t precision and t envenomed spite. tom sao P ually made part of o tion betterance did not make suco  did to P to say so,   advances toy  met, o  favourable disposition too  drao eaco prevent tate of feud from being observed by Mr Stelling,  at t elling. tom, some  stupid stories like ion t  be very clever: soo, alk to enderness for deformed t seemed to  te strong and  mind so muc being petted, and sting objects t  very deligo be petted by om very dearly, but sen wis  her loving him.

    `I tom, s out of tudy togeto to pass terval before dinner. ` cs o be t a good man. You like  you?

    `O, om, curtly, `and old  to tell  rue - and ,  you can stop , Magsie,  somet to do upstairs.

    `Cant I go too? said Maggie, ing again, loved toms shadow.

    `No, its sometell you about by and by, not yet, said tom, skipping away.

    In ternoon, t tudy, preparing t t om  but impatient Cating ale of paternosters, and P tented diligence t excited Maggies curiosity:  look at all as if  on a loool at nearly rigc one and to tioning dark eyes fixed upon  ter of tullivers seemed a nice little te unlike tle sister.  ,  made Maggies dark eyes remind ories about princesses being turned into animals?... I t  isfied intelligence and unsatisfied, beseecion.

    `I say, Magsie, said tom at last, sting ting t master in t of `leaving off, `Ive done my lessons noairs h me.

    ` is it? said Maggie  suspicion crossing oms Preliminary visit upstairs. `It isnt trick youre going to play me, now?

    `No, no, Maggie, said tom, in  coaxing tone. `Its something youll like ever so.

    , and toget upstairs.

    `I say, Magsie, you must not tell anybody, you knoom, `else I s fifty lines.

    `Is it alive? said Maggie, led for t on t tom kept a ferret clandestinely.

    `O, I s tell you, said o t corner and  out, ell you urn round. You mustnt squeal out, you know

    `O, but if you frigo look rather serious.

    `You  be frigom. `Go and  peep.

    `Of course I s peep, said Maggie, disdainfully: and srict honour.

    But tom looked round ; tepped into t closed t  t dream-suggestive attitude sten om called out, `Nohen, Magsie!

    Not long meditation and preconcerted arrangement of effects could om to present so striking a figure as o Maggie  of a face   of flaxen eyebrooget refused to look formidable let old om ried  to make a o t unfailing source of terrible, burnt cork, and  met in a satisfactory manner over ced blackness about to give it turban, and er across  as a scarf - an amount of red s point resting on to convey an approximate idea of y disposition.

    Maggie looked be, and tom enjoyed t moment keenly; but in t, sogetom, Youve made yourself like Bluebeard at the show.

    It ruck   uns appeal to its sense of terrible, and tom prepared for erstroke. Fro of intention, if not of corrugation, s sed it at Maggie.

    `O tom, please dont, exclaimed Maggie, in a tone of suppressed dread, so te corner, `I s! I wisairs!

    toms moution to a smile of complacency t ely cent y of a great  it soo mucernly,

    `Im ton! Marcamping for leg a little bent, and till pointing toear-filled eyes, got upon them.

    tom, ator of ary performances, even tator most exertion of o sucion of t and t as ed of ton.

    `tom, I  bear it - I  t movement of t yourself, youll cut your head off!

    `One - tom, resolutely, t `trembled a little. `t ts edge on toms foot, and in a moment after, oo. Maggie leaped from till sely tsteps toelling, from airs study,  to enter. om ed and Maggie   s e som  sorro t   - it seemed as if all happiness lay in his being alive.