A Love Scene
POOR tom bore e in not `telling of Mr Poulter more t event to Maggie. But terrible dread even ask tion al `yes - ask telling `Sered to cry out at t ed by ogetom on crutcs son, and Maggie, o to Mr Stelling to anticipate toms mind and to reassure Pc of telling to ask tion t tom dared to ask for does Mr Askern say tulliver will be lame?
`O no, O no, said Mr Stelling, `not permanently. Only for a little while.
`Did ell tulliver so, sir, do you think?
`No: noto .
`tell him sir?
`Yes, to be sure: noion it, I daresay roubling about t. Go to be very quiet at present.
It t ulliver be lame? It pity. P t tate of repulsion but o a common current of suffering and sad privation. ion did not dy and its future effect on toms life, but it made vividly present to ate of toms feeling: een years, but t of teeped in t irremediably hard.
`Mr Askern says youll soon be all rigulliver, did you Knoly up to toms bed. `Ive just been to ask Mr Stelling, and he says youll walk as well as ever again, by and by.
tom looked up momentary stopping of turned raig done for a fortnigimation of a possibility s t of before affected rouble: toms being al sucune likely to befall o him and cried afresh.
`Dont be a little silly, Magsie, said tom, tenderly, feeling very brave now. `I s well.
`Goodby, tulliver, said Pting out e om clasped immediately antial fingers.
`I say, said tom `ask Mr Stelling to let you come and sit imes, till I get up again, akem - and tell me about Robert Bruce, you know.
After t, P all ime out of scom and Maggie. tom liked to ing stories as muc ed strongly on t t t fig, armour from o foot interest to a neory of P a man so dreadfully put island, some o kill animals h for food.
`I didnt roar out a bit, you knoom said, `and I daresay my foot o roar.
But Maggie e permissible to cry out, and it to bear it. Sed to knoes er, and island and take care of him.
One day, soon after Pold tory, udy alone togetoms foot ering idly round t caring to do anyticular, because so tom again, and leaned on table near Po see ly at her.
` are you reading about in Greek? ss poetry - I can see t, because t.
`Its about Petes - telling you of yesterday, ing at all sorry to be interrupted. Maggie, in inued to lean foring on about, as if se forgotten Philip and his book.
`Maggie, said Per a minute or till leaning on om?
Maggie started a little on being roused for ? Ped ion.
`O yes, better, sely. `No, not better: because I dont tter tom. But I should be so sorry - so sorry for you.
P to imply, so plainly, y. Maggie, young as s ake. o sinctively bee unconscious of Py: iveness and experience under family criticism sufficed to teaced by t finished breeding.
`But you are so very clever, Pay at om out, and you eac you? Greek and everything.
`But youll go ao sc all about me and not care for me any more. And take any notice of me.
`O no, I s forget you, Im sure, said Maggie, s anyt everybody ell tom, because it le dog - nobody cares about tom and me.
`Do you care as muc me as you do about Yap, Maggie? said Pher sadly.
`O yes, I shink so, said Maggie, laughing.
`Iam very fond of you, Maggie; I s you, said Per like yours.
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`I dont knorying to speak - trying to speak kindly. I dont like oto look at me muc I like you to look at me, Maggie.
`om is, said Maggie, rat s as hough he was crooked, she said,
`So kiss you, as I do tom? I will, if you like.
`Yes, very much: nobody kisses me.
Maggie put e earnestly.
`ts ever so long. But Ill go nooms foot.
ime, Maggie said to o tom - oo, tom, dont you? Say you love reatingly.
tom coloured a little as be friends up no augo play at draug him.
`ell, ell, said Mr tulliver, `if o you, try and make o ur and takes after dont you be getting too t oo. Ay, ay, t may co kick like his black sire.
tures of ted ullivers admonition alone migo effect: in spite of Poms ansime of rouble tom by and by began to as usual, t y and gratitude died out by degrees, and left tion to eacen peevisemptuous: and toms more specific and kindly impressions gradually melted into toogetransient feeling, t be made of metal t ably fall asunder .