akes to Stratagem

    tulliver s least to tronger and stronger symptoms of a gradual return to ion: tic obstruction tle by little, losing its tenacity, and t ful struggles, like a living creature making its  sno t slides and slides again, and ss up time o tc ful distant  count of ts  it -approacs come too quickly. ulliver os moment of most palpable caxing-masters able gunsmitiously preparing t t, duly pointed by a brave arm, urs, filing of bills in C or bomb-s can never  a solitary mark but must fall tering. So deeply in is it in t men o suffer for eacably diffusive is  even justice makes its victims, and ribution t does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.

    By t advertising tullivers farming and otock to be folloer-dinner  time, fancied ill in t first stage of unes en in alked in a feeble, disjointed manner, of plans

    least save Mr tulliver from leaving t and seeking an entirely strange life. For uncle Deane o interest age of t , ion for Guest and Co. to buy Dorlcote Mill and carry on t be increased by tion of steam poill Mr Deane  tter: t t akem gage on t put in into o bid for tate, and furto outbid tious firm of Guest and Co. imental grounds. Mr Deane o tell Mrs tulliver someto t effect, o inspect t `if Guest and Co.  it, Mr tullivers fate Mill long before t firm  of. Mr Deane, in reply, doubted ion betments. As for uncle Glegg, te beyond ion: tured man felt sincere pity for tulliver family, but  mortgages and  o ives: but  tulliver scoats y, and t ulliver a pound of tea no ea and see   black.

    Still, it  Mr Deane oullivers. One day  Lucy, le blond angel-self against Maggies darker cears. ters keep up a tender spot in t of many a respectable partner in a respectable firm, and perying questions about o make uncle Deane more prompt in finding tom a temporary place in tting ting evening lessons in book-keeping and calculation.

    t migtle, if t come at time t  be a bankrupt, after all: - at least, tors must be asked to take less to toms unteccy.  not only be said to  y, but to  carried t obloquy to toms mind. For s isfied, t ts, ion: `not more ten or tone, tigom like a scalding liquid, leaving a continual smart.

    of someto keep up s a little in t neransported from ted ennui of study- Mr Stellings, and tle-building in a `last  sco ts at  step toting on in ty, noisy affair, and implied going  ones tea in order to stay in St Oggs and rongly of bad tobacco. toms young pink and   doo tle cross if o him.

    But all tulliver  most to be dreaded, and prevent akem from entertaining truly respectable and amiable entous anomaly, taking to reflection and inventing combinations by o : t could tering. Mrs tulliver, seeing t everyto t soo passive in life, and t, if so business, and taken a strong resolution no er for  appeared,  of going to speak to akem on t, Mrs tulliver reflected, it est met end. It ulliver to go - even if o la akem and abusing  ten years; akem o e against  Mrs tulliver o t o bring o trouble, so t oo. to be sure, akem  t s to please t lent Mr tulliver to please t likely to put Mr tulliver torney mig? - , and at time Mrs tulliver  marriage, tin spencer, and  yet any ts of Mr tulliver, sainly to of all possibility t ertain anyt good  s, ed to go to la present disposed to take Mr akems vies rat, if t attorney saable matron like o give  en to ations? For s tter clearly before . And o spite   likely enoug s Squire Darleig ten and often danced ten.

    Mrs tulliver  a  to Mr Deane and Mr Glegg, t s mind going to speak to akem  akem alone, in tone of men o give a candid attention to a more definite exposition of . Still less dared sion to tom and Maggie, for `t everytom, s as muc against akem as  tration of t naturally gave Mrs tulliver an unusual poermination, and a day or to be  time to be lost s ratagem. tion - a large stock of pickles and ketculliver possessed and  tervieo St Oggs t morning: and  s let t present -  like o go about just yet - s at t in radicting  pickles s ined from tle girl, t ogetil surned to, he offices of Mr akem.

    t gentleman  yet come to ulliver sit doe room and  for  long to  before tual attorney entered, knitting  tout blond ially: - a tallis iron-grey  a rascal and as crafty, bitter an enemy of  y in general and of Mr tulliver in particular, as ed to be in t eidolon or portrait of o exist in the millers mind.

    It is clear t to interpret any c t grazed tempt on o entanglements in tion o y, required tive diabolical agency to explain t is still possible to believe t ttorney  more guilty toy is guilty touring too near it, is cauged into unexpected sausages.

    But it is really impossible to decide tion by a glance at s of tenance are like ot alo read  a key. On an a priori vie more rascality tiff s collar, too, along   ory meaning ained.

    `Mrs tulliver, I think? said Mr akem.

    `Yes, sir, Miss Elizabeth Dodson as was.

    `Pray be seated. You h me?

    `ell, sir, yes, said Mrs tulliver, beginning to feel alarmed at ing t s settled  in coat pockets and looked at her in silence.

    `I  last, `I  a-t, and t in, and t broug  to tly, for te aers. And as for going to la to be ans o my oo one  abuse you as ot I niver  of me.

    Mrs tulliver stle and looked at t handkerchief.

    `Ive no doubt of ulliver, said Mr akem, eness. `But you ion to ask me?

    `ell, sir, yes. But ts o myself - Ive said youd ral feeling; and as for my  been  a-defending  about tion - not but

    tter as said youd t I cant believe but w youll beleman.

    ` does all tulliver? said Mr akem, rat do you  to ask me?

    `ulliver, starting a little, and speaking more  to buy t so mucter, only my  your .

    Somet flasold you I meant to buy it?

    `s none o my inventing and I s of it, for my  to kno to say as la em into t ud be to do contrairy to t.

    `A t did say so? said akem, opening ,  of an almost inaudible wle.

    `  and Co. ud buy t Mr tulliver  for em, if you didnt bid for it and raise t ud be suco stay , t fond o t,  to do

    Dodson to marry one; but I  into it blindfold, t I did, erigation and everything.

    ` - Guest and Co. heir own hands, I suppose, and pay your husband wages?

    `O dear, sir, its o tulliver, a little tear making its  it ud look more like o be, to stay at to go any, my  be struck  better again as ting now.

    `ell, but if I bougo act as my manager in then? said Mr akem.

    `O sir, I doubt  to do it, not if tood still to beg and pray of o s so as never  t ts eigold him he was wrong...

    ` out Mr akem, forgetting himself.

    `O dear, sir! said Mrs tulliver, frig a result so different from t radict you, but its like enoug a many to talk about. And you  like to o die; and ts allays unlucky o tell you as I remember your  erday - Mrs akem , I kno - and my boy, as t nicer, raiter boy noo sch your son...

    Mr akem rose, opened to one of his clerks.

    `You must excuse me for interrupting you, Mrs tulliver, I  must be attended to; and I to be said.

    `But if you  in mind, sir, said Mrs tulliver, rising, `and not run against me and my c denying Mr tullivers been in t s been giving to ot -  y - and I go and look at to stand.

    `Yes, yes, Ill bear it in mind, said Mr akem ily, looking tohe open door.

    `And if youd please not to say as Ive been to speak to you, for my son ud be very angry rouble enoug being scolded by my children.

    Poor Mrs tullivers voice trembled a little, and so ttorneys `good morning, but curtsied and  in silence.

    ` t Dorlcote Mill is to be sold? o hey were alone.

    `Next Friday is t six oclock.

    `O run to insioneer - and see if  o come up.

    Altered  morning, ention of purce Mill, ulliver ed to ermining motives, and al glance  being rasives run in fixed tracks, and to reconcile conflicting aims.

    to suppose t akem  of inveterate red toulliver, t tulliver os o t indignant roac  good eating: it could only be ertain a strong personal animosity. If Mr tulliver ed ttorney, akem  inction of being a special object of vindictiveness. But  t dinner-table, ttorneys clients  a o o be present, some jocose cattle-feeder, stimulated by opportunity and brandy, made a t at o old ladies  sang-froid, and knee  ty of substantial men t ly contented  t `akem  is to say, a man ones t ice. A man  tofton, and decidedly t stock of port  Oggs, o feel  sure t even  Mr tulliver , mig, under opposite circumstances, eness in trut `akem  mankind is not disposed to look narroo t of great victors  side. tulliver, truction to akem: on trary ed several times - a -tempered fello te t unsuccessful plaintiff - t pitiable, furious bull entangled in t?

    Still, among to , moralists  of being too fond of te for topping per meditative red toor ive roric against Yelloe life: but  not be sorry, if launity favoured, to kick t Blue editor to a deeper se colour. Prosperous men take a little vengeance noake a diversion, o business; and suc in life, running t infliction, blocking t men out of places, and blackening cers in unpremeditated talk. Still more, to see people o us, reduced in life and ed  any special efforts of ours is apt to tering influence: Providence, or some ot appears, aken task of retribution for us; and really, by an agreeable constitution of t prosper.

    akem   tic vindictiveness toary miller, and noulliver  tion into  presented itself to o do t ulliver t deadly mortification, and a pleasure of a complex kind, not made up of crude malice but mingling  tion. to see an enemy ed gives a certain contentment, but t satisfaction of seeing ed by your benevolent action of concession on  is a sort of revenge ue, and akem   an intention of keeping t scale respectably filled. ting an old enemy of o one of t Oggs almso tion; and unity of providing for anot. Suceness to prosperity, and contribute elements of agreeable consciousness t are not dreamed of by t s-siged vindictiveness, s o self in direct injury. And tulliver ongue field by a sense of obligation, ter servant tuation. tulliver o be a man of proud y, and akem oo acute not to believe in tence of y. o observing individuals, not to judging of to maxims, and no one kneter t all men  like ended to overlook tty closely: ical rural matters. But te Mill, quite apart form any benevolent vengeance on t al investment; besides, Guest amp; Co. o bid for it. Mr Guest and Mr akem erms, and ttorney liked to predominate over a stle too loud in toalk. For akem  a mere man of business:  fello Oggs, cted amusingly over  tle amateur farming, and ainly been an excellent  c t under t of mural monuments erected to t men  o be more tender to  men o t s t Mr akem  ot toage, and provided for t, indeed, tive to te Mill. ulliver alking, it o tances of t to come furnisable position for a certain favourite lad o bring on in the world.

    tal conditions on o act persuasively, and  ion from t p fly-fis so as to make it alluring in t quarter for  of a due acquaintance ivity of fishes.