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    SO tom  on even to till urned sixteen - at Kings Lorton, oers to tom s o Pions about ences about toms tooturf-o build in tems of t kind. So om say in t Pen cross: tom t  alo love Po   my fault: I dont do anyto  t Cmas s  long intervals in treets of St Oggs. , so kiss , as a young lady  of tion, and P expect it. t, illusory promises of our carry blossoms greo be fulfilled ened la, and akem, as t at once of Pivart and Old ing against ,  t likely ever to imacy  if t crookbacked son lived to in ten gains, ttle to do  sco tom; and telling by time ional pupils; for tlemans rise in t of t meteor-like rapidity o enable o increase ure in continued disproportion to his income.

    As for toms sc  on ony, inuing to move ifled pulse in a medium of uninteresting or unintelligible ideas. But eacion  iny rendering of landscape and er-colours in vivid greens, toget books full of exercises and problems, in o it. Eacion  ing  stages of ory, Cian doctrine, and Latin literature; and t passage  entirely  result besides toms ear and tongue omed to a great many o be signs of an educated condition, and to any one of  a deposit of vague, fragmentary ineffectual notions. Mr tulliver, seeing signs of acquirement beyond ticism, t it ion:  t enoug  to Mr Stelling. It ook tom aer effect?

    By time tom  quarter at Kings Lorton, triking curning from Mr Jacobs Academy. all yout t a more som of blended diffidence and pride: ailed coat and and-up collars, and cience looking every day at   - at tumn quarter - t  go to ter, for to give tom ttled, exulting feeling t usually belongs to t monter too, t being decided: t made t of irely pleasurable. For tom,  Pivart en.

    tom

    to manifest tion in unnecessary letters - old, soon after entering tudy at nine oclock, t er  elling udy to tell  o enter the drawing-room alone.

    Maggie too all no as tall as tom, teen; and s t moment. S,   bear t extra load, and rangely oom entered, s speak, but only  up to  ly. o various moods of  no alarm at ting.

    ` youre come so early tom, as soo her side.

    `No, I came by turnpike.

    `But  youre not at sc begun yet?

    `Fated me at  trembling of three or four days ago.

    `Isnt my fatom, rather anxiously.

    `Not quite, said Maggie. `om. t is ended, and I came to tell you, because I t it ter for you to kno before you came  like only to send you a letter.

    `My fat lost? said tom, ily, springing from tanding before Maggie  in s.

    `Yes, dear tom, said Maggie, looking up at rembling.

    tom  a minute or then he said--

    `My fato pay a good deal of money, then?

    `Yes, said Maggie, ratly.

    `ell, it cant be om, bravely, not translating to any tangible results. `But my fat Maggie, and t ated face  of aking things.

    `Yes, said Maggie, again faintly. to fuller speecoms freedom from appre from om, .

    toms eyes flas one look of surprise at urned pale and trembled visibly.  sat do of te window.

    Anxiety about ture ered toms mind.  a good  air of a man y to fall back upon. tom   une e ions, least of all ability  of tom  up in.  Oggs o support it, and empt and reprobation: rong belief, e evidence to rest on, t  deal of money if ion at Mr Stellings en t t s of a fine young man, and so any of emporaries at St Oggs, y, because to tics and s and uncles, t effect on  to make  aunts and uncles y:  in mucter they did.

    toms lip, yet s and expectations o only tion in c shock.

    Maggie oms pale, trembling silence. to tell  last, and said, h a half sob,

    `O tom - dear, dear tom, dont fret too mucry and bear it well.

    tom turned o meet reating kisses, and ture in  rubbed aion seemed to rouse  my fato go?

    `No, tom, fat  o master ation: -  s you to come - poor motom, its very dreadful at home.

    Maggies lips greremble almost as tom o eacrembling - t an uns terrible certainty.  was hardly above a whisper.

    `And ... and ... poor father ...

    Maggie could not utter it. But tolerable to tom. A vague idea of going to prison as a consequence of debt, o take.

    `iently. `tell me, Maggie.

    `  easier to reply to t question. `But, ser a pause, `not  me ever since... . o  her... .

    it  fortruggle against tom felt t pressure of t  vision of troubles as Maggie   t of igated misfortune. ig convulsively round Maggie as s earless - ain of cloud h.

    But Maggie soon cly: a single t ed on artling sound.

    `e must set out, tom -  not stay - fat be at turnpike at ten to meet ty decision, rubbing o seize .

    tom at once felt too. `ait a minute, Maggie,  speak to Mr Stelling, and then well go.

    go to tudy elling, o be in trouble er o inquire and offer hy.

    `Please, sir, I must go om said abruptly, as  Mr Stelling in t go back er directly. My fat  -  all y - and hes very ill.

    Mr Stelling felt like a kind-ed man:  ty at ter for o get ure, only elling,  the room.

    tom and Maggie anding on tep, ready to set out, tle basket,  somet  out toly. It  sign  ne susceptibility to ty ains of affection.

    Mr Stelling put oms s me kno tom en t  sc o an end.

    t on tant road -  being hedgerow.

    togeto tered tes of them.